25/06 what does it do best?

I'd say ideal for antelope and good for deer, lacking for moose elk and bear.

Would be a great antelope and deer rifle, but not an all round big game rifle IMOP, it's nice, but I'd take the 270 win over it and the 257 WBY personally.
 
rral22 said:
Really? You sure can! The question was "what does it do best?" "Mice to Moose" is just a silly answer. It's not best for either, and it's not best for very much.
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Mountain Sweetness gave you a good answer... pronghorn are right in the .25/06's wheelhouse.
 
The question was " what dose it do best". Not "what dose it do better then other cartridges". Or "what cartridges are better then the the 25-06".

As far as things the 25-06 is good at. Probly antelope and pronghorn.
Out of eveything you can hunt it would probley be best suited for that.
 
regulate34 said:
The question was " what dose it do best". Not "what dose it do better then other cartridges". Or "what cartridges are better then the the 25-06".

As far as things the 25-06 is good at. Probly antelope and pronghorn.
Out of eveything you can hunt it would probley be best suited for that.
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Antelope and Pronghorn? Umm....
 
There is some calibers that you ear about but it never cross your mind to get one rifle in that caliber, the 25-06 is that kind of caliber to me... Certainly the geografic situation can favor a certain calibers du to distance, i think in eastern Canada, you can do anything with a 270 or a 308... Just saying. JP.
 
Johnny G1 said:
Will kill anything in North America.
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A hair light for Bison, not to mention illegal in most places.

Dogleg said:
It might be best as a dual purpose ground-hog gun that goes deer hunting once a year? Or maybe a primarily coyote plinker that doubles as a once a year deer gun? Otherwise, I can't think of anything that it is the "best" for. Its good enough for a lot of things though. I can't think of any .25 caliber deer situation where it would be better than a .257 Weatherby, and as far as that goes I can't really think of a situation where a .257 is better than an STW or one of the .300s without saying recoil, kids, recoil-shy or pussy in the sentence.

When you have an over-abundance of hunting rifles there are often times when you have to get creative inventing a "reason" to take one along that day as opposed to the rest of the herd. My 25-06 is the hardest one to dream up a reason for. Its a deadly accurate Steyr Pro-hunter Stainless, and the best I can come up with is hunting deer in the rain on days that its detachable magazine is handy for getting in and out of vehicles? Make that on a day when I'm hunting with the kids and don't plan on shooting at all.

Maybe it's better at being a better .243 than a .243 is?
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Interesting. In the end no matter what you're shooting there's pretty much always something else that will do something better than the other. I have both a 257 Weatherby and a 25-06, neither of which have ever been fired at game. Like everything in our game, "because" is reason enough.

Could be a wicked baboon rifle though.
 
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