25-06 pet loads

[Art]

Just bought a nice old BDL in 24" sporter barrel and curious on good reloads for this rifle. It's probably going to be used mostly for a bit of target shooting and predator hunting. Any tips would be appreciated. This won't be my primary large game rifle. Thanks.

 

[Fassteel]

My nicest groups came from reloder25 powder with 120gr hornady bullets.
My buddy;s rifle liked reloader 22 with 115gr TSX bullets and with the 80gr TSX bullets the recommended powder was Hybrid 100. FS

 

[purple]

Sierra 117gr, Hornady 120gr and Speer 120 gr with either H4831 or IMR4831 all shoot MOA in a M70 Win. The .25-06 tends to like loads at top velocity.

 

[Lastgun]

59 grains of IMR4831 under an 85 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip yields 3550fps...58 grains of IMR4831 under a 100 Grain Nosler Partition yields 3430fps...Both loads have vicious half inch accuracy in my rifle and brass life is decent...Although warmish loads like these can torch a chrome-moly barrel in less then a 1000 cold bore rounds...I've done it twice now.

I figure the 25-06 was designed to burn out not fade away...So that's how I load it.

 

[jdmoores]

Large dose of varget with 85gr nosler ballistic tips work very well in my m77 hawkeye. The 115 gr nosler with retumbo is a good load as well

 

[davide montini]

Mine is reloader 19 With barns 100 gr tsx or ttsx not loaded hot at all but it's like a lazer beam and it's moving around 3000...3100 fps out of a browning bar semi 24" barrel

 

[Lefty Dick]

Varget and 75gr Vmax's
IMR 4831 and 85gr Ballistic Tips.

 

[rar]

7828 and 120 grainers .

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

H1000 and 115gr VLD , 5X.5 grains. Velocity had deviation of 16ft/sec

Load testing with this was .423" vertical stringing later confirmed with sight in.

 

[GreenBob]

Not sure if this help...

Ken Water's PETLOADs Complete Volume

Cheers,