The 25-06 Remington
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RJHow do you push a 131gr bullet in a 25-06 to 3200+ fps ? A 270 Winchester or 280 Remington is hard pressed to do that
Is the 25-06 more magical than Bucky is telling us?
I will reiterate, those numbers are posted online. But the 25 CM is noted to easily achieve 3000 with much less case capacity. Also unsure how you claim the 270 and 280 are hard pressed to do it when many reloading manuals show them very, very close to 3200 and over.
It’s really not hard, put this much powder behind this weight bullet with this case design and you will get these kind of speeds. There are diminishing returns. Also the larger the base of the bullet etc contribute to speeds but between very similar bullet diameters the point is pretty moot.
Sorry you dislike the 25-06 and that it will do more than you believe.
Enjoy the 6.5 bandwagon.
SCG.
6.5cm will do 2800 fps with same bullet weight @ SAAMI pressures
These 25 calibers do seem magical
6.5cm will do 2800 fps with same bullet weight @ SAAMI pressures
These 25 calibers do seem magical
Haha, you are correct if you have a short barrel and use fast powders. Like you I can cherry pick numbers
Now I need to go get me a worthy .257!
SCG
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I'm cringing from the thought of a short barrel. I'm having an old German made Weatherby Mark V from the custom shop restored at this time, lock, stock and barrel. Yup, another 27" barrel chambered in the 257 Weatherby Mag. Short barrels, humbug!
I made my longest kill shot with a Rem 700 Stainless in 25-06, was in an aftermarket stock, was some form of carbon fibre if I remember right. Dropped a coyote at a lasered 397 yards with the 25-06 and a 75 grain Vmax, coyote was being run by some hounds, it came to an opening in the fence to enter the field I was watching, all I saw was the head and neck, he was trying to be sneaky but he stood still long enough for me to put the cross hairs right on the top of his skull, when I shot he disappeared, at first I thought I missed, then the hounds pulled up and proceeded to bite and tear at him, he had dropped right there, he had a nasty hole in his head. Like a dummy I sold that rifle, wish I still had it.
I sold my 25-06; a Steyr Mannlicher to a friend of my son. It just might be the most accurate factory gun I ever had, and he seems to get his deer every year. Neither prove much, but are fun anyway.
Logic tells us that a 25-06 is identical to a 257 Weatherby at a somewhat shorter distance. The 257 is something I have a bit of experience with, animals into the hundreds, with much of those being cull red deer and fallows with a fair smattering of our deer of both types and a couple moose. There's not much use pretending it doesn't work, and work very well. They are good fast little guns.
The trouble is; there's nothing that a good fast little gun can do on big game that a good fast bigger gun can't do better. I can't recommend a 25 caliber in a sentence or discussion that doesn't have recoil inserted into it every second word. Where's that guy who can shoot a 25-06 that can't shoot a .270? Or the .257 Weatherby shooter that can tell the difference between that and a 270 'bee at the butt pad? If you like the screaming velocities of a 257 wait til you get a load of a 7mm STW or 7-300.
Logic tells us that a 25-06 is identical to a 257 Weatherby at a somewhat shorter distance. The 257 is something I have a bit of experience with, animals into the hundreds, with much of those being cull red deer and fallows with a fair smattering of our deer of both types and a couple moose. There's not much use pretending it doesn't work, and work very well. They are good fast little guns.
The trouble is; there's nothing that a good fast little gun can do on big game that a good fast bigger gun can't do better. I can't recommend a 25 caliber in a sentence or discussion that doesn't have recoil inserted into it every second word. Where's that guy who can shoot a 25-06 that can't shoot a .270? Or the .257 Weatherby shooter that can tell the difference between that and a 270 'bee at the butt pad? If you like the screaming velocities of a 257 wait til you get a load of a 7mm STW or 7-300.
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Mine is a browning bar reloading for it was a piece of cake crony with magnetospeed at 2900 fps anything with in 400 meter is in the freezer bear deer coyotes (no I don’t eat them ),have not tried it on moose
100 g barns tsx or the ttsx reloaded 19...any case ...any primer
Sweet gun ..no kick ...and very accurate
Davide
100 g barns tsx or the ttsx reloaded 19...any case ...any primer
Sweet gun ..no kick ...and very accurate
Davide
