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- In the mid-fifties, 6mm wildcat cartridges
- were experiencing increasing interest, and in
- 1955 Winchester responded in kind with the .243
- Winchester. Formed by neck-sizing the successful
- .308 WInchester to .243 inches, it was instantly
- popular in Winchester's intended multi-purpose
- role, spanning varmints to deer-sized game.
- Other manufacturers followed suit with their own
- 6mm rounds, but none were to reach the
- "everyone-knows-it" familiarity that the .243
- Winchester would attain.
-
- Particularly well-suited to the Winchester
- Model 88 Lever-Action, the cartridge was adapted
- to the long-lived Savage 99 line also. Of
- course, it is a popular chambering in
- short-action bolt-actions.
-
- Factory ammunition sports an 80-grain
- jacketed bullet at 3350 fps. The .243 has long
- been appreciated as a flat-shooting cartridge
- quite suitable for long-range varmint work.
-