Light Load for 243 and 12yr Girl

[Teknys]

I sold my wife's Rem Mod 7 - 243 to a buddy of mine for his daughter. She turns 12 this spring and she loves to be in the mtns hunting with her dad. She is small and he would like to really have this start out right for her.

I have a surplus of 90gn BT and I went to the Alliant site looking at RL19 and RL17. I have plenty of RL17 and looking for starting loads. The RL17 is giving more velocity and I read into that slightly more recoil.
I'm thinking the RL19 at 42.3gns (47gn - 10%). If there is another suggestion that anybody thinks might work better I'd be happy to hear it.

 

[JD338]

Maybe start her out with some 55 gr bullets just to get her acclimated to her new rifle.

JD338

 

[Teknys]

That's a good idea.

 

[onesonek]

Then an 85 gr PT at an accurate starting load would suffice.

 

[SJB358]

Then an 85 gr PT at an accurate starting load would suffice.

I started off my son with Varget and the 85 grain SGK. Worked sweet on a few deer, but the 85 PT would leave alot more blood on the ground. It was a very mild load and I will be working up a similar one for my daughter very soon who is 8 almost 9.

 

[FOTIS]

How fast do you want them?

 

[jimbires]

I helped out a young boy a few years ago . I loaded 85 grain sierra HPBT bullets with IMR4198 powder . it had very light recoil . powder min 17.0 @ 1796 FPS ..............max 19.0 @ 2005 FPS . if I remember right I used 19.0 grains . these loads are from speer #13 book . Jim

 

[2ndtimer]

Hate to use the "H" word on this forum, but a Nosler competitor has some reduced rifle loads available using H-4895 powder that might offer you some help.
http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/H4895%20Redu ... 0Loads.pdf
(The load they list for the .243 uses a _ornady bullet)

 

[FOTIS]

Hate to use the "H" word on this forum, but a Nosler competitor has some reduced rifle loads available using H-4895 powder that might offer you some help.
http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/H4895%20Redu ... 0Loads.pdf
(The load they list for the .243 uses a _ornady bullet)

You can use any competitors name on this forum.

:wink: :wink:

 

[Thebear_78]

I load 150gr Nosler BT in my sons 308 with trailboss powder. The load that I have him using is clocking right at around 1400fps and has virtually no recoil and very little muzzle blast. Its a lot like shooting a 22 mag of the bench. This allows him to do a LOT of practicing without developing any flinch and shoots very close to the full powered load that I worked up for him. I have a 200gr Speer SP load @ 2350fps load that I worked up that I will use as his full power hunting load. He has shot enough of them to be comfortable but 95% of his practice is done with the reduced trail boss loads. In order to be able to do a bison draw there is a regulation that a 200gr bullet with over 2k f/ps of energy at 100 yards. This is the lowest I can go and still be legal. I also had a couple of hundred of those speer SP that I got at a garage sale.

I would really look into one of the reduced loads to get some trigger time for the smaller kids. They won't notice when shooting at game but it will help from developing a flinch in the long run.

Why would Hodgdon be a competitor, last I knew nosler only made bullets and rifles, hodgdon makes powder. I bet a lot of nosler bullets get pushed around by hodgdon powders.

 

[C.Smith]

My son just got a .243 for Christmas and we went shooting with Walmart 80 grain bullets (winchester) and he enjoyed shootting them.

Corey

 

[FOTIS]

As a super lite load try 12 grains of unique with a light varmint bullet. This is a super light load though.