Quote....One of the deadliest drop them in their tracks calibers I have ever used.
That statement is music to my ears.
That statement is music to my ears.
Best powder choices for lightweight bullet in 25-06
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Way back when, I had a large supply of the old surplus IMR 4831. It shot everything well from 75gr to 120gr. I checked the sierra book and IMR 4831 still seems to give that accuracy and velocity across the board. A 9 twist really helps when shooting the longer bullets but the 10 twist will still be accurate.
The 9 twist was VERY accurate at 200 yards with 7828ssc in the 115 and 120 grain bullets.
The 9 twist was VERY accurate at 200 yards with 7828ssc in the 115 and 120 grain bullets.
Yes sir, when you shoot them at or over 500 yards and their legs fold up before they drop on the spot. If you are after meat better stick to a 30 and chase them down... maybe.... jim
A man has to know his limits and the rifles limits,plain and simple.
I'll give you a better one.... I shot a deer running over 300 yds. and as swung ahead of it and pulled the trigger and it went down. walked up and no bullet hole .... but I saw that hit it in the rear on one cheek and after I gutted it it blew the heart up from being hit in the rump and wasn't more than an inch from being a miss. Now that is hydrostatic shock. I wore out two Shilen barrels on that gun a pre 64 model 70 stocked in French walnut ...... Jim
What kind of speeds are you guys using to knock them deer in the dirt so well????
I'll tel you this things were different back then. I always used a 270 and a 130 60- 63 gr. of 4831 was pushing 3200 from a 24" barrel then Sierra changed their bullet and I never had a whole bullet come out just pieces. With the double tapered jacket then the world changed then it was like using AP, they went trough did very little damage. That pushed me to the 25-06 and never looked back. run the 100's at 3400 and the 115's near 3200.... I see that they are close at Hodgens site with certain powders and they are conservative due to liability..... jim
I picked up my new 25-06 Friday evening. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box.The photo here is not the greatest but I was really surprised at how nice the piece of wood is and the workmanship on this rifle.
Always a little hesitant on ordering something over the Internet site unseen but I hit the jackpot here, as long as it shoots.The workmanship on the average rifle coming out of the factories these days is usually not good in my opinion. But this Winchester is one of the better ones I’ve seen in a long long time.
Always a little hesitant on ordering something over the Internet site unseen but I hit the jackpot here, as long as it shoots.The workmanship on the average rifle coming out of the factories these days is usually not good in my opinion. But this Winchester is one of the better ones I’ve seen in a long long time.I have been running the 117 Sierra Pro Hunter 3000 fps with 49 grs IMR or AA 4350, Rem case, CCI 250 primer out of my 26" Shilen #6 on a Rem 700 action and HS precision stock and have killed deer from on top of me to just a tad over 500 yards with no problem. Like I said before 99% of the time it is bang flop but I am a front shoulder shooter when possible.
Here is an little hunting story. Was hunting over a field in east NC. The way the field was laid out there was a square that was right in front of me that was 200 yards long and 200 yards wide for a ways back toward me. Then it opened up to about a mile long to my right. It was the last week of my vacation time there hunting and I still needed one more deer for meat. It got down to the last three days and I don't know if it was the moon faze or what but deer were not moving during the evenings that week when my buddy and I could hunt. At the time he had the lease and I was his guest and I could only be there when he was there. On the third evening before I had to go home right at last light I caught a flash of something and got my field glasses on it and there was a buck just inside the woods 200 yards from me. Problem was he was standing right behind a big pine tree watching me. No doubt he had seen me move. All I could see was his right eye and right rack which had 3 points, all else was hidden by under brush. I sat there until dark and he never moved. Next evening same thing happened. The last evening to hunt I decided that if he showed up again the same way I was going to shoot him in the eye. I told my buddy this and he laughed. I was in a tree house 4'x4' with a roof on it sitting about 20' high up in a white oak tree as a stand. I had a shooting rail around the stand made out of 2x6s. The rifle was the 25-06 mentioned above with the load mentioned. This rifle, load combo, will shoot 1/4 MOA all day if no wind. At this time I had a Leupold VXII 3-9x50 with duplex reticle on the rifle. I had the rifle sighted in to hit POI 3" high at 100 yards but had found with the scope set on 9 power I could put the reticle where the upper vertical heavy meets the finer part on something as small as a plastic pop bottle lid at 200 yards I could smoke it. Sure enough about 5 minutes before it got too dark to see the buck shows up and does his peekaboo thing. I already had the rifle set on the shooting rail ready. I got steady, took in a breath and let half out as I placed the junction of the reticle on his eye and started my squeeze on the 2 1/2 pound trigger and BOOM, POP. Climbed down went to the tree the deer was standing behind and there he lay. Bullet went through his right eye and blew his head apart. Right antler was laying a ways back behind him with some skull attached. When my buddy came with the truck he said what did you get. I said, "That buck I told you I was going to shoot through the eye and I did exactly what I said." I could tell hunting stories all day long because we hunted together for 30 years but now because he is 85 and has bad health all we have are our memories, but they are good ones.
Here is an little hunting story. Was hunting over a field in east NC. The way the field was laid out there was a square that was right in front of me that was 200 yards long and 200 yards wide for a ways back toward me. Then it opened up to about a mile long to my right. It was the last week of my vacation time there hunting and I still needed one more deer for meat. It got down to the last three days and I don't know if it was the moon faze or what but deer were not moving during the evenings that week when my buddy and I could hunt. At the time he had the lease and I was his guest and I could only be there when he was there. On the third evening before I had to go home right at last light I caught a flash of something and got my field glasses on it and there was a buck just inside the woods 200 yards from me. Problem was he was standing right behind a big pine tree watching me. No doubt he had seen me move. All I could see was his right eye and right rack which had 3 points, all else was hidden by under brush. I sat there until dark and he never moved. Next evening same thing happened. The last evening to hunt I decided that if he showed up again the same way I was going to shoot him in the eye. I told my buddy this and he laughed. I was in a tree house 4'x4' with a roof on it sitting about 20' high up in a white oak tree as a stand. I had a shooting rail around the stand made out of 2x6s. The rifle was the 25-06 mentioned above with the load mentioned. This rifle, load combo, will shoot 1/4 MOA all day if no wind. At this time I had a Leupold VXII 3-9x50 with duplex reticle on the rifle. I had the rifle sighted in to hit POI 3" high at 100 yards but had found with the scope set on 9 power I could put the reticle where the upper vertical heavy meets the finer part on something as small as a plastic pop bottle lid at 200 yards I could smoke it. Sure enough about 5 minutes before it got too dark to see the buck shows up and does his peekaboo thing. I already had the rifle set on the shooting rail ready. I got steady, took in a breath and let half out as I placed the junction of the reticle on his eye and started my squeeze on the 2 1/2 pound trigger and BOOM, POP. Climbed down went to the tree the deer was standing behind and there he lay. Bullet went through his right eye and blew his head apart. Right antler was laying a ways back behind him with some skull attached. When my buddy came with the truck he said what did you get. I said, "That buck I told you I was going to shoot through the eye and I did exactly what I said." I could tell hunting stories all day long because we hunted together for 30 years but now because he is 85 and has bad health all we have are our memories, but they are good ones.
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