Damn, that awesome. I shot my first deer on my 9th birthday which happened to be opening morning in 1995. haha Dropped an 8 pointer with a 243, still hangin' on the wall at my parents house. I shot my second deer the next year, a spike, dropped him also. I quit hunting after that and my brother dropped like 10 deer within the next 10 years with that same gun. I don't know what it is about that 243 but it drops those damn deer.
I just bird hunt now. It's much harder. Deer meat tastes better though.