Huck, I have a 22-243Win and it has really grown on me. So much so, that I had Kasey built me and a couple coyote hunting pards up with 22-243AIs.
Our modest fire form load is 3265fps with an 80 Amax using RL-22 and it ground checks coyotes with gusto! Surprisingly, there is not much carnage either, seen the same thing with a 75 Amax from my straight 22-243.
This an exit from a quartering to shot with 80 Amax from my 22-243AI, pretty fur friendly...
A full house 22-243AI load with an 80 Amax is up over 3500 with RL-22, on par with a 224TTH in performance. I am sold on the killing ability and ballistics of these fast twist .224s. I'm running RL-25 in my vanilla 22-243...