30-06 in the bush

[remington jim]

Would a 30-06 be a particle hunting rifle from a ground blind in the bush? A little worried about a 30 yard shot and a 06 completely destroy a doe

Yea for Sure it’s WAY to much cartridge ! RJ

 

[Great North Guns]

You’d get more reliable and headache free performance from a 30-30

 

[iron cat]

Would a 30-06 be a particle hunting rifle from a ground blind in the bush? A little worried about a 30 yard shot and a 06 completely destroy a doe

Shoot them in the chest and there will be no issues, be it a 303, 280, '06, 7mag, 300 mag, whatever.
Hit them close in the shoulder with the same cartridge and you will have issues- it's that simple.
Cat

 

[Canuck65]

Would a 30-06 be a particle hunting rifle from a ground blind in the bush? A little worried about a 30 yard shot and a 06 completely destroy a doe

If your range is 30 yards it'll still be fine. You could try a 180 o 200 and reduce the velocity a bit. If you're buying factory ammo, you can get core lokt all the way up to 220gr.

If it was me, I wouldn't even worry about it. Shoot it in the vitals with whatever ammo you have - at that range you should be able to avoid the shoulder no problem. There's not really any meat on the ribs anyway.

 

[Hunter7]

A 30 yard head shot of a doe will destroy very little meat. At 30 yards why would you consider anything else?

Agreed!

 

[Dogleg]

Don't shoot her in the meat, you'll be fine.

Or alternately, the perfect deer cartridge might be something that would blow every rib in a deer 50 yards into the bush.

 

[crazy_davey]

don't shoot her in the meat, you'll be fine.

Or alternately, the perfect deer cartridge might be something that would blow every rib in a deer 50 yards into the bush.

50bmg?

 

[Dogleg]

Whatever works. Deer ribs are disgusting.

 

[6.5x55swm]

Thanks for the info guys, 30-06 is all I have now and my first one, being left hand shot rifles can be hard to come by and with 30-30 levers going for over $1000 I can't see me getting one anytime soon

 

[Ardent]

If you own a .30-06, you certainly don’t need a .30-30. No sober hunter has ever thought, “What I really need, is a lower BC version of this bullet going much slower.”

 

[bb07]

Thanks for the info guys, 30-06 is all I have now and my first one, being left hand shot rifles can be hard to come by and with 30-30 levers going for over $1000 I can't see me getting one anytime soon

If you're a reloader an option is to get some 170 grain 30-30 bullets and load down to those velocities.

 

[Butcherbill]

Whatever works. Deer ribs are disgusting.

Yes but there’s a meat for the trim/grind pile in the ribs, it all adds up.

 

[Potashminer]

Yes but there’s a meat for the trim/grind pile in the ribs, it all adds up.

Our deer might be different - most of the ones that I have dealt with from Saskatchewan - white tail and mule deer - even on a good sized one, not likely to get more than a cup full of trim from between ribs - and that is at least 50% "white stuff" - could be fat or tendon - long time ago we decided it was not worth it - neither my wife nor I can "stand" to eat deer fat, so we trim everything very lean - others are not so fussy about it.

 

[Tabacco Brook]

180gr Round nose Remington Core-Lokt, mid lungs, will drop the deer in a short distance, and won't spoil much more than the ribs. Round nose bullets expand quicker, transfer energy quicker and cause trama faster than a spire point of the same grain. I have shot alot of deer with an '06,... with shot placement being equal I have witnessed the 180gr RN CL anchor deer quicker than all others I have shot from my '06s.
So, in short, at close distance, the 180 RN is stout enough to hang together at high velocity but will expand quicker causing more devastation than a 180 spire point.

 

[Dogleg]

Yes but there’s a meat for the trim/grind pile in the ribs, it all adds up.

That just spreads the disgusting part through the whole pile.

 

[Lefty Dick]

Run some monolithic130’s or 150’s and quit over thinking things.
Like was posted earlier 30 yard shots should be brain pan or neck shots.

 

[Butcherbill]

That just spreads the disgusting part through the whole pile.

Bahahaha, to each their own I guess. I have no problem with grinding up everything I can, including the rib meat.

 

[Suther]

My buddy shot a good size mule deer doe at about 15yds, using 180gr federal blue box IIRC. Nice broad side shot, two liquefied lungs, top of the heart missing, a few broken ribs and a fist sized exit wound. Only lost a bit of rib meat.

So yes, a 30-06 at short range works fine.

Isn't the fed fusion a hot core? Rumours perhaps.

Only bullets I would be worried about would be rapid expanding like A max, Vmax, Bergers. Stuff made for long range or varmit. Any standard cup n core should be fine.

They're the same sort of construction as the Speer gold dot bullets. They use an electroplating process to create the jacket around the lead core.

 

[BigUglyMan]

Would a 30-06 be a particle hunting rifle from a ground blind in the bush? A little worried about a 30 yard shot and a 06 completely destroy a doe

Last deer I shot in NS was with a 30-06 and 180gr Partition and was about 45 yards from a ground blind. Not at all "too much" gun.

 

[regulate34]

Just don’t use light for caliber bullets and you aren’t going to wreck a doe.

220g RN inside 100yrds is going to hammer stuff and be meat friendly.
Even 180g mono bullets would be great.

If you hand load. Load some 170g 30-30 bullets and H4895 @ 2400fps and your laughing