I just bought a 243 win. in a RUGER AMARICAN GO WILD CAMO. ' GOT IT AT A GREAT DEAL' so I started loading for it settled on 41.0 grains of H4350 and a 95 grain NOSLER B/T Fed. 210 primer, Shot .750 group at 100 yrds. anyone use this bullet on white tail deer.? just asking

You won't have any trouble with that bullet on deer. The .243 is and always has been from the beginning an excellent deer cartridge with bullets 80 grain and above.
Scott

I have a typical sort of AR response to your question in that I never used any Nosler bullet for deer but have successfully shot several Fallow and Sika Deer with a Remington Cor-Lokt 100 gn bullet. At that time my .243W ( Sako M591 ) used a highly accurate load with that bullet. I guess any comparable bullet should kill just as well.
I always though the .243W about the lightest calibre I would use for deer but I know in NZ plenty of deer are hunted with lesser calibres than this so I am hardly an authority on which caliber is best.
These days my .243W is strictly a varmint rifle. And I just love it in that role.

I have not shot a 95 grain BT, but have shot a couple whitetail with a 70 BT out of my little Rem model 600 in 6mmRem. They died right where they were shot instantly, and I have no doubt the 95 grain BT will perform well for this task. You didn't ask, but my son shot a whitetail buck through the heart with a 243Win that I had loaded with a 100 grain Hornady Interlock bullet and we had to chase that thing for 3/4 mile before it expired. All I ever hear about that is poor shot placement, that's phooey.

I use 100 grain cup and core either Winchester or Remington bulk packed. 4831 powder. No problems.

I did try a 95 grain cast bullet and it did not go well. No blood found and no deer recovered, so can't say what caused the problem.

Last deer I shot was with the .243 and it was unusual. At the shot, the deer did not run,flinch or jump but did walk. I could see where I hit it and could see it was staggering when walking. It walked a few yards and was just standing and swaying. I walked up to it while it was still on it's feet and it didn't pay me any attention. I considered a finishing shot, but decided no reason. It dropped. I had taken out both heart and liver and how that deer moved an inch is beyond me.

Is that IMR or H 4831? I have those bullets also.

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You didn't ask, but my son shot a whitetail buck through the heart with a 243Win that I had loaded with a 100 grain Hornady Interlock bullet and we had to chase that thing for 3/4 mile before it expired.

I "guided" (sat in the blind with) a friend's wife for whom he had loaded some 70 gr Ballistic Tips in her .243. Not my first choice, but certainly adequate for a 90 pound whitetail doe. She shot a doe at about 60 yards, well placed in the thorax. The animal just stood there for a few seconds, then trotted across the little wheat field to a group of deer about 75 yards away which, for whatever reason, didn't spook at the shot. I knew the shot was good and told the lady not to take another. I happened to film the whole thing on a little digital camera set to "movie". It took 63 seconds from the time of the shot until the doe dropped.

When I went to gut the deer I found that the bullet had essentially "vaporized" the heart and lungs -- there was nothing left but jelly -- and the organs were largely unidentifiable. It's hard to know why some animals drop on the spot and never twitch while others, with apparently the same trauma, may run for what seems like a very long distance. Theories abound on this subject, but so far as I know, no one has come up with a definitive explanation.

Slim it's IMR