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Need your help and advice again:

Now I hope to be hunting for moose elk and deer maybe a bear.

My biggest concern right now is the recoil factor. I have 2 rifles I'm looking at. Same rifle make only one in 25-06 the other in 30-06. Now my reason for the re-coil factor is because I have gone through open heart surgery and my sternum is now wired together and will take about a year to fully heal up (maybe more because I'm also diabetic, slow to heal), and I don't want to re-brake it. I know there are several things that can be done to reduce re-coil but I am on a tight budget and once I get the rifle and scope that will be the end of my budget.

Now before anyone go's off on buying ammo I have factory ammo and loading components.

Thanks for your thoughts
Burke
 
25-06 obviously if recoil is a factor. The .257 Roberts is supposed to be very easy in that department also.
 
The Kurgan said:
270 is nice to, but so is the 7x57!

So many nice cartridges between 270 and 30-06. For selection alone, its hard to beat 30-0dead
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I was just keeping it in the "06 case family..outside of that , there dozens of good cartridges in between those two.

The 280 will do all the work of the 25-06 and the 30-06, up to the 175/180 gr weight.
 
30-06, load it with a lighter load until your healed...the nice thing about 30-06 is the range of loadings that are available for it in both factory loads and choices of bullet weights for the reloader...
 
Try to figure some reduced recoil loads like some of the factory offerings. No need to re invent the wheel on this one.

Something that does 2600-2700 ft/sec with some 125-150 grain bullets would be fairly tame and still plenty effective on animals with quality projectiles.
 
If recoil is a factor then the very easy answer is the .25-06 - it is a fine cartridge. I'd fix up a 115gr TSX or 120gr Partition with a mild load of around 2800fps using a relatively light charge.
 
bearhunter338-06 said:
Need your help and advice again:

Now I hope to be hunting for moose elk and deer maybe a bear.

My biggest concern right now is the recoil factor. I have 2 rifles I'm looking at. Same rifle make only one in 25-06 the other in 30-06. Now my reason for the re-coil factor is because I have gone through open heart surgery and my sternum is now wired together and will take about a year to fully heal up (maybe more because I'm also diabetic, slow to heal), and I don't want to re-brake it. I know there are several things that can be done to reduce re-coil but I am on a tight budget and once I get the rifle and scope that will be the end of my budget.

Now before anyone go's off on buying ammo I have factory ammo and loading components.

Thanks for your thoughts
Burke
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I hope you heal up quickly. Far be it from me to discourage anyone from purchasing a new rifle, but if your current big game rifle (.338-06?) could be handloaded to produce light recoil, that might solve your problem without damaging your budget, which could then go towards components. .338 bullets as light as 180 gr Nosler Accubonds, 185 grs Barnes TSXs, and the Hornady 185 gr GMXs loaded to produce 2100 fps, (40 grs of 4895 should be close) would still have more power and a flatter trajectory than a .30/30, but with similar recoil.
 
guido said:
In your situation, it's an easy decision. Load the 25-06 with barnes bullets and go hunting. I own both guns and wouldn't hesitate to take the 25-06 for moose.
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^ Bingo. I'd load the .25-06 with the 100gr TTSX and go hunting. I've shot stem to stern through large WT and MD bucks with this combo, so I wouldn't worry about whether or not it'll penetrate enough.
 
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