25-06 A dead Calibur ?

[gwes2003]

I hope it's not dead. The 25-06 is on my to buy list for 2016.

 

[mudgunner49]

Now, one thing you have to keep in mind, though, is that the 25-06 is totally insufficient for bear defense. You need at least a 458 Lott. Just thought I'd set the record straight before some poor sap gets mangled on account of silly recommendations on CGN.

I shot my furthest bear with a .25/06, 306 lbs with a 100 gr Nosler over 52.5 gr IMR4350 at 410 yards. Admittedly not much of a "defensive" shoot though - more of an ambush. It had killed a couple of calves at a friends farm and I got the call to do the deed. That particular rifle was a Ruger 77 MkII V/T and I got about 2300 rds of that load through it before it wouldn't hold MOA anymore, at least not consistently...

 

[brybenn]

the axis headspace in the exact same manner

Good to know it's the same. I wasn't sure. I don't own an axis

 

[Sniper_485]

Same cartridge. Different name. Both originally come from the 8x57 Mauser. 7x57, 257 Bob, 6mm Rem. All the same case

That is what I was trying to get across.

 

[Rembo]

Maybe the 'smith doesn't have a 25-06 reamer....

 

[harv3589]

My one rifle for everything I hunt...definitely not a dead cartridge. I would be looking for a different smith I think.

Worked just great for moose this fall

115gr partition - 280yrd shot

 

[Kevan]

Way to go Harv, Thanks for sharing !

Nice Moose..... Awesome smile !!

 

[harv3589]

Way to go Harv, Thanks for sharing !

Nice Moose..... Awesome smile !!

Thanks!

Pic sucks my hunting partner just had his crappy cell phone..it's really grainy but I promise I do have all my teeth

 

[mbogo3]

The only thing dead about the 25-06 is what it's pointed at! My son took a meat 3x3 elk at 400 yards with a 120gr Hornady HP .....elk made it 25 yards and laid down ....hole going in ..hole exiting.....Harold

 

[brybenn]

All this quarter bore love makes me think about selling off a few to put a down payment on a custom 25/35 I want.
You shouldn't just have one 257 right

 

[Hitzy]

As soo as Remington puts the 25/06 out in the 783 I'll be grabbing one.

 

[H4831]

My one rifle for everything I hunt...definitely not a dead cartridge. I would be looking for a different smith I think.

Worked just great for moose this fall

115gr partition - 280yrd shot

Harv, that fine moose has every indication of being an Alaska moose variety, the largest moose sub species. The picture shows him as a large, heavy moose, while probably not over about three years old, but the dead give away is the shape of the antlers.
With Canada moose the antlers grow basically up, while the Alaska sub species grow wide and just turn up further from the head. Just like yours.
The big Alaska species are in the Yukon, as well as Alaska, and gradually working their way south into BC. As far back as the 1950s there was the odd Alaska sub specie as far south in BC as the Prince George area, or even further south.
Bruce

 

[mbogo3]

Ever heard of a .25 Souper? It's based on the .243 brass ,so it's a SA getting near 25-06 ballistics.........Harold

 

[harv3589]

Harv, that fine moose has every indication of being an Alaska moose variety, the largest moose sub species. The picture shows him as a large, heavy moose, while probably not over about three years old, but the dead give away is the shape of the antlers.
With Canada moose the antlers grow basically up, while the Alaska sub species grow wide and just turn up further from the head. Just like yours.
The big Alaska species are in the Yukon, as well as Alaska, and gradually working their way south into BC. As far back as the 1950s there was the odd Alaska sub specie as far south in BC as the Prince George area, or even further south.
Bruce

Bruce

He is a big bodied moose that's for sure. He was shot west of Calgary...

 

[H4831]

Bruce

He is a big bodied moose that's for sure. He was shot west of Calgary...

I wonder if Ted, Why Not, would come in on this.
Ted, is he an Alaskan moose?
Bruce

 

[harv3589]

I wonder if Ted, Why Not, would come in on this.
Ted, is he an Alaskan moose?
Bruce

I'm not disagreeing...I have no clue, just tellin ya where he was shot

 

[Kevan]

Bruce

He is a big bodied moose that's for sure. He was shot west of Calgary...

Would that make him a Bragg Creek Moose ?

 

[davide montini]

The .25 dead not a chance
Mine is a browning bar SEMI ...24" barrel.. Yes semi!!!!.. I reload for it .... And buy luck I loaded 49.5 grs of reloader -19 under a barns tsx or the ttsx and it's like a lazer beam ... No recoil just pure pleasure ..... Only problem is the girlfriend really likes to shoot it ..she's taken 3 deer with it and now she says its hers!!!!!!
It only took 3 years to get in
I think it's a beautiful rifle and when people see it they say 30-06.. Or .270
I tell them no ...25-06.... And they all wanna shoulder it and hold it
Browning the best there is !!!!!!!!

 

[rem338win]

Ever heard of a .25 Souper? It's based on the .243 brass ,so it's a SA getting near 25-06 ballistics.........Harold

Harold, the Souper is to the 25-06 what a .308 is to a 30-06. There is no magic, just a good moderate cartridge. But not a 25-06.

The 25-06 and the quarter bore are anything but dead. Its a hunting bore, plain and simple and it works.

As for Harv's moose, it is in the northern most part of the area that Shiras are expected to live in, and that antler configuration looks much like all of the southern Alberta moose I have ever seen shot. I am not of the age or experience that H4831 or Why Not? are but I would argue that it is anything but an Alaskan. Great bull again Harv.

I have a 48" that has the exact same look.

 

[M12shooter]

The only thing dead about the 25-06 is what it's pointed at! My son took a meat 3x3 elk at 400 yards with a 120gr Hornady HP .....elk made it 25 yards and laid down ....hole going in ..hole exiting.....Harold

120 Hornady HP are a rather inexpensive bullet but I can say Ive shot a truck load of whitetails with that slug. At or near max these shoot sub MOA groups with my 25-06 Sako AV all day long.