The .25-06 is a great round!

[Adam Helmer]

Today, old dog, Lori, ,and I trekked to the hayfield range. Lori is my Range Officer and a model for all the Gun-Shy dogs hereabouts.

We ranged the .25-06, the .243 and the M1 Garand over the 375-yard course. When it came time to patch targets, we drove out in the Polaris Ranger. I wrote down all relevant data and then Lori and I patched the targets for the next go round.

The .25-06 is a fine long range round. I had favored the .243, but the .25-06 is far and away a better round in my humble opinion. Tonight, Lori and I are in the Reloading Room making .243, .25-06 and other rounds as we listen to classic 33.3 records on classic sound equipment. I could never deprive my hound of a Classic Education. Right?

Adam

[kt]

adam, it really is a great round. a friend of mine shoots a 700 in this cal. his dad had a pet load he came up with that we never got to discover but whats left of his reloads are unreal. varmint wise (well compared to .243) great round. i would own one by now except that for every deer i kill in a northampton county corn field, there is another in a pike county swamp. simply put, when your in thick and the angle is less than perfect, i would like something more than 117 grains. i kill most my deer with a .308 and have never knocked one flat in its tracks! i have seen two get this pill and drop like lightning hit them. it is def the next rifle i would like to have. i can imagine midwest folk love what this caliber has to offer also

[PJgunner]

Well, I have two rifles in 25-06. The first one is a Ruger #1B that looks all beat to hell. I got into it cheap enough that it will work as the donor for a .35 Whelen build I'm thinking of. They say, "Don't shoot the donor." That this is an absolute tack driver. Oh well, back to the drawing board. FWIW, it only likes 120 gr. bullets and that's OK with me. A few months later I came across another Ruger #1B in 25-06 that looked absolutely mint. Compared to the beater, it thinks it's a shot gun. :eek: I'll tinker with it a bit but I strongly suspect it will end up being the donor.
Paul B.

[GoodOlBoy]

Dad always loved his quarter bore back when he had it. Nothing at all at all wrong with a good 25-06

GoodOlBoy

[buckhunter]

Anything that is based on the 30-06 case is a sure bet. There are a ton of them out there.

[Jack]

Several years ago, a friend of mine talked me out of my 25-06 after I'd loaned it to him and he killed 4 deer with 4 shots, and none of them went anywhere after the shot.
I hear a lot about DRT's (dead right there) on the Internet, but, in truth, most whitetails will go a few yards no matter how dead they are.
Anyway, after seeing 4 deer drop on the spot, he refused to give the rifle back. :) I really missed having a 25-06, and after a few years, I used the money he paid me for the old 25-06, and bought another one- this one is a Browning B78.
Originally, I'd loaded the Sierra 100 grain for deer, and had cautioned my friend to take only broadside shots. More recently, we've switched to the Nosler 110 Accubond bullet, and, so far, we've gotten exit wounds every time with the new bonded bullet.
Loaded with an 85 grain bullet, the 25-06 makes a terrific long range varmint cartridge, too. I suppose the recoil might be a bit much for prairie dog fields where you might fire 100 rounds or more in a day, but for the occasional shots at woodchucks or coyotes, the 25-06 will perform very well at extended ranges.

[GoodOlBoy]

On yotes the 25-06 is deadly deadly. On whitetail it can be as well. I agree for chucks or prairie poodles it is probably a bit much, but with a lighter bullet it sure does reach out there to them. Dad basically moved away from his when reloading components down here for it got so rare and high it was just cheaper to buy a 223, outfit it, and shoot it than it was to keep buying more components.

GoodOlBoy

[T.R.]

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c146/rushmoreman/sdricksbuck25-06.jpg

This is my South Dakota hunting partner named Rick. He toppled this dandy buck at distance of approx 275 yards or so. Instant kill from his heavy barrel RUGER in 25-06.

Premium bullets have increased lethality of 25-06. Rick has taken two elk with his rifle using bonded bullets. 25-06 is a keeper!

TR

[Adam Helmer]

T.R.,

Very nice photo. I like the .25-06 and "ring" the 375-yard gongs in the hayfield with regularity.

Adam

[Larryjk]

TR and his friend Rick have the 25-06 right. An ideal antelope rifle. Also great on ocasional rock chucks. I have the standard 25-06 and AI. Both are great shooters. Their little buddy the 257 Roberts gets to go with me quite often as a driving around rifle.
But I have seen buck mule deer that take more than 1 hit from the 25-06 to be anchored.