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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

243 Winchester vs 6mm Creedmoor: Best crossover deer/predator cartridge?

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the world of light, zippy cartridges that serve double duty on deer and varmints, what's best? Two of our most popular crossover cartridges are the classic .243 Winchester, and the cutting-edge6mm Creedmoor.

This episode takes a deep dive into the pros and cons of each, pitting the two against each other in terminal performance, inherrent accuracy, ballistics, barrel life, practical versatility, and more. Take a listen to hear which emerges the winner. ENJOY!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine you're high on a wind-swept ridge in Wyoming or Idaho, hunkered under a

0:05.6

pinion tree with your 12-year-old. It's his or her first hunt, and you're

0:10.2

watching the sagebrush flats below for a nice buck when, much to your surprise, a big lone wolf

0:17.6

trots across a distant flat and lays down on a small rise in the sunshine.

0:23.4

You've both got wolf tags, and your focus immediately shifts.

0:27.9

Mulder? What mule deer?

0:29.6

You've got a legitimate chance of a wolf, something few hunters will ever have.

0:35.2

Lying brome beneath the juniper you range the wolf at nearly 600 yards while your

0:39.9

kid gets steady on the bipod and finds the wolf in the crosshairs. So here's where we go

0:46.1

into a rhetorical flashback. Your son or daughter is small-boned and slender and in order

0:52.4

to avoid making your kid recoil shy, you opted to set up a super accurate light rifle chambered for a mild kicking cartridge.

1:01.0

For deer to 400 yards and predators as far as you care to shoot,

1:05.7

would you rather have a 243 Winchester or a 6m. Creadmore. That's our topic of the day, folks. We're going to take a deep dive

1:16.6

into the pros and cons of our two most popular crossover deer slash predator cartridges and see if we can define which is best.

1:25.8

First though, let's go to our upfront Q&A section.

1:29.1

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1:36.4

Check them out at porters firearms.com and note their large stock of lightweight precision hunting rifles and left-handed models.

1:47.0

Now this question was sent in by a listener we'll call Mike via email.

1:51.7

Mike had an interesting question. He wrote,

1:54.0

Hi Joseph, I'm thinking of buying a used

1:57.0

Remington 700 in 375 H&H.

2:00.0

It has a Boyd's wood laminate stock. It was manufactured in 2020.

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