Does Anybody '06 Anymore

[nakneker]

I’ll always have an 06 hanging around. I grew up with family that were die hard 270 fans, ford vs check thing, 270 vs 30-06 drama but I’ve grown to love the old workhorse. Current flavor is a Ruger #1A. IMR 4064 and Sierra TGK 165s is what the rifle likes…

Had an old Husky lightweight sporter prior, great rifles.

 

[Gary in MD]

Yea, I’ve got two. One very nice custom Cooper and one stainless synthetic Sako for the lousy weather days. The old ‘06 is still big medicine for most game.

 

[Idaho-Lefty]

Yea, I’ve got two. One very nice custom Cooper and one stainless synthetic Sako for the lousy weather days. The old ‘06 is still big medicine for most game.

Agreed,. There's NOTHING on the Planet that, the old 06,.. HASN'T,.. Killed ( Just Pick, THE Right, Bullet ! ).
Used One for, MANY Years, myself, a 1903, A3, Rem. 2 groove, Spgfld that, I Bought from the NRA at 15 y/ o for $17.50 and I Sporterized it with, a Fajen Stock, Had it, Drilled / Tapped, Blued, Bolt Bent by, a New grad from, the Colo School of Trades, can't remember how Much $$$'s ( But was real, reasonable ) Shot it for around, a Decade, until, I bought, a True "Lefty" Bolt, German made, Weatherby MK-5, in .270 Wby.
Using Cheap, Bruce Hogdon's $50 cents a Pound, H-4895 and Hornady 150 gr. bullets at 2,900 FPS,..
it killed, many Deer / Antelope, like, Lightening !
I would NEVER Feel,.. "Under Gunned" with, an .30-06 !

 

[Ringostar]

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.

As you refer to it as the Wisconsin deer rifle. I grew up in Wisconsin and deer hunted there for 40 years. My dad used a Winchester 30-30, and the kids used shotgun with slugs. I bought my first deer rifle when I was 17. It was the Rem 742 in 30-06 prior to the 7400. And yes I started with the high see through rings and a cheap Bushnell 3x9 scope. 3 power was too much when the deer ran through the woods, and would never think quickly enough to look under scope. After about 10 years, I ditched that scope and rings for standard Weaver mounts and a 1.75x5 scope. Always kept it down on 1.75 while in the woods. The Rem 150 core-lokt ammo was very common also!

 

[wright brothers]

But the 270 is flatter!!

Relax guys just missing the old Pa Northern deer camps, where a 270 and 06 are about the same thing hunting wise.
My elder 700 is shot out.
I study older posts on here wondering what to do with it, (if anything). The more I read the more I am not sure.
My newer one is the Mtn model but IMO none the newer ones top the oldie.

Refreshing read from the 6xyz-ss.
I'm sure I'd like one of those too.

 

[raven9957]

About ten years back a close trusted friend finally got his period correct 03A4 built to where he thought it was ready to shoot. He came up to my home range and we quickly got it zero'ed at a hundred. We hung a target at 300, I laid down with the front on sand bags and drilled 10 rounds into 3.5 inches. I wanted to shoot more, but I had been shooting 308 for so many years, that '06 beat me up! I also tried to buy it, but he was so tickled with the build he wasn't going to part with it very soon. I was tickled just to get to shoot it. I think with the good bench and rest suited for the rifle it was MOA and I was impressed with his build.

Is there a chance he might want to sell now? Because I'm in the market.

 

[Dimner]

I'll sell my original a4 for 10k ;-)

 

[Eagle Six]

Is there a chance he might want to sell now? Because I'm in the market.

No, he is still not selling and if he was I would beat you out on the buy!!

 

[raven9957]

No, he is still not selling and if he was I would beat you out on the buy!!

Nuts!

 

[raven9957]

I'll sell my original a4 for 10k ;-)

That's why I'm looking for a clone.

 

[Dimner]

That's why I'm looking for a clone.

I'm building a clone too, or maybe a clone is not the right term.

I have a Chilean 7x57 mauser that has a very similar feel and balance to my 1903a4. I'm going to turn that into my bang around version of the a4. I'll get a similar scope mount, bent bolt handle and put a k4 on it. I'll also see if there are still parts that can convert the cock on close to cock on open.

 

[durand mortenson]

My FN Mauser 06. I knew I had these somewhere.

 

[durand mortenson]

 

[Col Mustard]

"Grandpa's Lesson."

Pappy took to drinkin' back when I was barely three.
Ma got pretty quiet. She was frettin', you could see.
So I was sent to Grandpa and he raised me up real good.
He taught me what I oughta and he taught me what I should.

I learned a heap 'o lessons from the yarns he liked to tell.
There's one I won't forget because I learned it 'speshly well.
There jist ain't many folk who live a peaceful, carefree life.
Along with all the good times there'll be lotsa grief and strife.

But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix
With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."

Grandpa courted Grandma near the town of old Cheyenne.
Her daddy was cantankerous - a very greedy man.
He wouldn't give permission for a fancy wedding day
'Til grandpa paid a dowry - biggest ever people say.

Her daddy softened up when Grandpa said that he could fix
Him up with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Grandpa herded cattle down around Jalisco way.
Ended up behind some iron bars one dusty day.
Seems the local jefe craved my Grandpa's pinto mare.
Grandpa wouldn't sell her so he lit on out of there.

Didn't take much doin' 'cept a couple special tricks
Plus seven hundred dollars and his thirty ought six.

Then there was that Faro game near San Francisco Bay.
Grandpa's cards was smokin' hot and he took all one day.
He woke up nearly naked in a ditch next early morn'.
With nothin' but his flannel shirt, and it was ripped and torn.

Those others were professionals and they don't play for kicks.
He lost seven hundred dollars and his thirty ought six.

He begged some woolen trousers off the local storekeep there
Who loaned him both a pony and a rifle on a dare.
He caught those thievin' cardsharks at another Faro game.
He got back all his property and also his good name.

He left one bleedin' badly and another mostly lame.
My Grandpa's trusty rifle shoots just where you choose to aim.

Grandpa's slowin' down a bit and just the other night
He handed me his rifle and a box sealed up real tight.
He fixed me with them pale grey eyes and this is what he said,
"You're awful young but steady too and I will soon be dead.

I'll bet this here old rifle and this honest money too
Will come in mighty handy just as readily for you.
There jist ain't many folk who lead a carefree peaceful life.
Along with times of happiness, there's always woe and strife.

But.....ain't many troubles that a man caint fix
with seven hundred dollars and his thirty ought six."

Lindy Cooper Wisdom

 

[koger]

Love the poem. I also have a soft spot for the 30/06 as well. I have built 26 of them over the last 40 years of gunsmtihing, it seems I could always get them to shoot as good as a 308 or better on ocassion. In the 80's and 90's there was a slew of cheap 98 Mausers that were available cheap with shot out barrels. I bought a lot o 25 barrels that were supposed to be all 30/06, FN made stepped barrels, new blue wrapped in cosmoline and wax paper. Turned out 2 of them were 7x57. I built the rest of sold a few barrels, put them in syn stocks, drilled and tapped, forged the bolts down, glass bedded them and changed the saftey and added a Timney trigger. Sold them cheap, but made a good profit, about every one of them would shoot a 3/4" group with good factory ammo and 1/2" or under with a good handload stoked by IMR 4350 and 150 gr sp.