Steve Donlon
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mountains if you don't mind saying? Looks great, rifle, wool blanket, and mountains!View attachment 1650532I have one like yours too Bz. 30-06 bench rifle, nothing sweeter. Loves the 210 and 215's
I don’t know. I will want more than an 06 if a 12ft tall pissed off critter is looking at me to be it’s next meal. That sounds like a stout 45-70 at a minimum to me!So I'm going to assume that you're under 40 years old. You've never had to kill anything that could possibly eat you, stands 10 or 12 ft tall and is pissed off.
I have noticed that also. At 800 no problem but often at 1000 yards the vertical rears it's ugly head. I get 5" groups but they are stacked in a straight line under the bullseye. I thought it was me. it seems like with 200 gr. + bullets it needs about 150 more fps. Guess that's why the 300 wsm does so good at 1000 yards.I don’t know. I will want more than an 06 if a 12ft tall pissed off critter is looking at me to be it’s next meal. That sounds like a stout 45-70 at a minimum to me!
I got into long range way back shooting 190 SMK over IMR-4350. Reloder 26 really changed the game for heavy 06 loads. Eye-popping speeds with 200+ gn bullets. I was able to push the 208gn up to 2850fps out off a 22” Rem 700 from the 1990s. That’s traditional 300 magnum territory without the usual damage to the brass if you tried it with a “normal” powder.
That said, I don’t like how much I have to trim -06 compared to modern cartridges and it just doesn’t hold vertical at distance.
Stop it......Zip it! If you keep this up all of the trendy people that have not figured out how to use a range finder and dial a turret will switch over and buy up all of our brass and ammo!Is there any real reason for the 100+ year old caliber is being ignored by so many people? Maybe people are scared of the recoil? Or there is something I dont know that everyone else knows about the 30-06.
has it not been around for over 100 years?
is it not able to kill everything that walks, including big game?
is it not accurate?
is it not able to be bought at every gun shop that you walk into?
I will keep on shooting the 30-06, I will Keep hitting my targets, killing my targets and buying my 30-06 everywhere that has ammo! Wesley