Does Anybody '06 Anymore

[ebb]

Bryan, I like the rifle rest! I also like the idea that when you needed one the credit card wasn't the first thing you looked for. Good job! Ive got some 06s, even some homemade 06s.

 

[David Milisock]

I've shot a lot of '06 in my sixty odd years of shooting and, up until quite recently, still enjoyed a day behind a set of open sights and sending a pill or two downrange with my '03 Springfield. But I rarely see anyone with that caliber at the shooting bench. Wondering if anyone here has a like experience.

I don't see many 30-06 in the field or on the bench. I believe it has been a victim of changing times. The manufacturers keep making new things and they have to sell them.

In my opinion the 30-06 is still a good general purpose cartridge.

 

[centershot]

Just purchased a barrel for my Savage 110. Shooters come up to me at the range and ask "what am I shooting"? I shoot Remington and L C brass and have not had any problems.

 

[Beruisis]

Garand with a Kreiger barrel & 03A4 with 1.5 power scope, both for vintage sniper matches.

 

[FNSafari]

I've used one to shoot two moose and its shot a pile of deer. For most game in the USA its all you need.

 

[oldroper]

I don't hunt with 30-06's every year. One has Bartlein barrel other Shilen barrel. Both gun clubs I belong will open range for public sight-in just before hunting season and I'll see few with 30-06.

 

[Dgd6mm]

My wife and I had a couple of them. She harvested her first deer with an 30-06.
Then I discovered short actions. We've been shooting short actions ever since.

The 30-06 is a fine cartridge. Once in a while young men and older fellas will show up at our gun club with one.
I'll pick up their brass they leave on the ground and throw it in the bucket at home for scrap to sell for the youth trips at Church.

 

[durand mortenson]

My two 06 rifles get drug out when my grandsons come to visit. I have a 03A3 and a FN 06 Mauser with a nice maple stock. My neck is toast but I can't resist putting a couple downrange when the boys show up.

Mort

 

[TonyinKY]

This post made me realize I haven’t shot my Browning Highwall 30-06 since I used it on an elk in 2005. And somehow I still NEED this rifle.

 

[wboggs]

It is not glamorous and new offerings are heavily advertised. I shot one in some form or other from 1954 until I had to stop hunting in 2015. Factory loads are still good for general purposes but handloading in a modern bolt action takes it to a another level.

 

[Bigguy1951]

I've had 2 06s. Both were purchased the same day in 1945 in a hardware store in downtown El Paso by a pair of brothers. Both were Winchester Model 70's. One of the brothers was my grandfather the other my great uncle. My grandfather and Bill Weaver (Weaver scopes) were friends and hunted together and Mr Weaver was instrumental in getting my grandfather to put a scope on it. That scope is still on it and is still a very nice hunting scope. My uncle left his unscoped and he was an exceptional shot with that gun taking coyotes, deer and antelope out to 500yds. I acquired both guns after my grandfather and uncle had passed on. I kept and used them as they were for years and then gave one to each of my two sons. They both still have them and use them. If my eyes were better I would borrow the unscoped gun and give Cortina's 500 yd challenge a try.

 

[Kalitrazescapee]

When we shot high-power, good brass was LC, 1958 m2 ball in my stash still shoots good it's wcc brass.

 

[LAH]

Shot one of mine today.

 

[DuoGlide]

I recently "found" a Springfield 1903 NM (number certified) in the back of the safe, working up loads for it. Only other gun close is a 7mm-06 custom built on a 1917 Eddystone action. It's a fun shooter, too.

 

[topsail86]

Best I can tell is that I have 11 30-06. The ones I shoot the most are a 1942 Garand and a match 1903 for Schuetzen matches with cast lead bullets.

 

[SQ54]

I have 3 .30-06’s. Two are Remington 700’s and one is a Mauser. No pic of the second Remington. This Remington has a Krieger barrel and the Mauser has a Douglas.

 

[Intheshop]

A month or so ago;

Savage flat back stainless LA '06 got a new S4 taper Shilen brrl. 14T for shooting cast. They questioned the logic(sanity,haha) after ordering with a follow up call back,when the order hit the shop floor......

I really,really didn't want to get into the whole cast thing with them so said to set it up for 125g Sierra's with a no turn,std neck. No mention of cast,they reluctantly chambered. Will spare the details but,out of the gate a 165g RCBS silhouette mould with an upper middle jacketed book load of IMR4350 has been ragged hole 5 shot groups @100. It's a hammer,on both ends.

 

[Okie John]

I cooked the barrel on a stainless Model 70 Classic in 30-06 by shooting it too quickly not long ago. A few months back, I had a new 30-06 barrel put on it because I couldn't imagine it as anything else. It will probably last the rest of my life.


Okie John

 

[wwbrown]

During our rifle clubs annual sight-in 3006s still make up a surprising majority of guns on the line.

My time in Wisconsin has me thinking that most of them have high rings so they can see under the scope for those close shots that the scope just sees hair. I used to joke that the Wisconsin deer rifle was a Rem 7600 with a 3x9 Redfield sporting the high rings. It has been some decades since I hunted in Wisconsin so that has probably changed.

By the way I have my dad's Wisconsin deer rifle in the safe, not shot in about 25 years waiting for me to get off my butt and post it for sale.

 

[Bob in WI]

My time in Wisconsin has me thinking that most of them have high rings so they can see under the scope for those close shots that the scope just sees hair. I used to joke that the Wisconsin deer rifle was a Rem 7600 with a 3x9 Redfield sporting the high rings. It has been some decades since I hunted in Wisconsin so that has probably changed.

By the way I have my dad's Wisconsin deer rifle in the safe, not shot in about 25 years waiting for me to get off my butt and post it for sale.

You might be thinking 7400 but you are totally correct! More times that not the scope is sitting in the extra high see through rings!