milkbone96
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- Location
- Southern shores of Georgian Bay
....said yo momma!
30-06
- Thread starter Rob
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One of the most versatile cartridges out there. Have a few. Here's a good shooter, muzzle velocity was recorded by my Garmin at 3030 fps out of 22 inch barrel.
Nice! This is my 3 shot grouping out of my 85 finnlight 22”.
Centre is the 150gr ttsx, top left is the 168gr ttsx
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Not even in the conversation with the aught six.
Who's Gary??never heard of it ................ gary is watching
My most recent 30-06 acquisition, a classic Sako Finnbear. Cleaned er up real good and took it for a little fun. Shoots awesome for a 50 yr old rifle.
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not really it's the flavour of the week
it really is not capable of have a gross over appeal long bullets to carry when the fps go sub sonic that has nothing to do with game shooting
if you wish to have a 6.5 bullet for hunting the 260 rem has it all over the creed
The 30/06 is one of the best all around cartridges for North America. Always has been. Just a great combination of power, trajectory and killing power combined with tolerable recoil. Townsend Whelen said it best, " the 30/06 is never a mistake."
Flavor of the week? The Creedmoor has been out for almost 20 years. I can't quite decipher what you were trying to say after but the Creedmoor doesn't go subsonic until 1500-1600 yards with 147gr ELD-M. The .260 Rem has a 1grain of water advantage in capacity over the Creedmoor and that capacity advantage gets eaten up when seating long high BC bullets.
Don't get me wrong, I've been shooting a .260 Rem since not long after it came out and still have two but only one Creedmoor but the .260 has zero over the Creedmoor.
Now back to the boring .30-06.....
- Location
- West Central Alberta
My first real hunting rifle (other than a Lee Enfield) was a Winchester model 70 in .30-06.. (bought new in 1976)
She put a lot of meat on the table and I still hunt with it.
She put a lot of meat on the table and I still hunt with it.
A friends email to me. Sums it up nicely.
“I know you will be surprised, but I used a 30-06 with 168 TTSX's in Tajikistan. There are only three flights per week to Dushanbe on Turkish Airlines, which is the route nearly all American and Canadian hunters take. So, during the hunting season, there are always 6-8 hunters on each flight that are going to various hunting units throughout the country. The method for getting cleared by customs with a firearm is straight out of Soviet times, so they herd the hunters into a room for about 2-3 hours while they all get cleared
As you can imagine, this leads to much discussion of where everyone is going, what you are hunting, what rifle you brought, etc. I was asked what I was shooting and said a 30-06 on a Mauser type action. They literally made fun of me, to the point that when we ran into one of the groups at a gas station on the way to the Pamirs, they referred to me as the '30-06' guy. The leader of the pack had a super-cool rifle in something called a 6 Dasher or some such thing, which seemed sort of crazy in a country where the only ammo I saw was in 300 Win Mag, 30-06 and 7.62x39.
We all ended up back in the same room at the airport on our way out two weeks later. I had killed the biggest ibex by about six inches, so they were much more muted than on the way in.
In all seriousness, I had to shoot the ibex at 425 yards. I center punched the shoulder, as you can see in the photos. The ibex collapsed at the shot and rolled into a snow slide. The boar was 415, shot through the shoulder, ran 15 yards and collapsed. All with a cartridge that I can find ammo for in any reasonably well stocked Tim Horton's from here to Bulawayo. Not sure a lot can be gained as far as actual hunting goes.
I am all for having fun with obscure cartridges locally, but if I'm flying to the hunt, I'll take a 30-06 or 300 Win.“
“I know you will be surprised, but I used a 30-06 with 168 TTSX's in Tajikistan. There are only three flights per week to Dushanbe on Turkish Airlines, which is the route nearly all American and Canadian hunters take. So, during the hunting season, there are always 6-8 hunters on each flight that are going to various hunting units throughout the country. The method for getting cleared by customs with a firearm is straight out of Soviet times, so they herd the hunters into a room for about 2-3 hours while they all get cleared
As you can imagine, this leads to much discussion of where everyone is going, what you are hunting, what rifle you brought, etc. I was asked what I was shooting and said a 30-06 on a Mauser type action. They literally made fun of me, to the point that when we ran into one of the groups at a gas station on the way to the Pamirs, they referred to me as the '30-06' guy. The leader of the pack had a super-cool rifle in something called a 6 Dasher or some such thing, which seemed sort of crazy in a country where the only ammo I saw was in 300 Win Mag, 30-06 and 7.62x39.
We all ended up back in the same room at the airport on our way out two weeks later. I had killed the biggest ibex by about six inches, so they were much more muted than on the way in.
In all seriousness, I had to shoot the ibex at 425 yards. I center punched the shoulder, as you can see in the photos. The ibex collapsed at the shot and rolled into a snow slide. The boar was 415, shot through the shoulder, ran 15 yards and collapsed. All with a cartridge that I can find ammo for in any reasonably well stocked Tim Horton's from here to Bulawayo. Not sure a lot can be gained as far as actual hunting goes.
I am all for having fun with obscure cartridges locally, but if I'm flying to the hunt, I'll take a 30-06 or 300 Win.
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In 2003 Kamchatka (Petropavlosk), the Russians counted your shells when you went in and again when you came out......A friends email to me. Sums it up nicely.
“I know you will be surprised, but I used a 30-06 with 168 TTSX's in Tajikistan. There are only three flights per week to Dushanbe on Turkish Airlines, which is the route nearly all American and Canadian hunters take. So, during the hunting season, there are always 6-8 hunters on each flight that are going to various hunting units throughout the country. The method for getting cleared by customs with a firearm is straight out of Soviet times, so they herd the hunters into a room for about 2-3 hours while they all get cleared
As you can imagine, this leads to much discussion of where everyone is going, what you are hunting, what rifle you brought, etc. I was asked what I was shooting and said a 30-06 on a Mauser type action. They literally made fun of me, to the point that when we ran into one of the groups at a gas station on the way to the Pamirs, they referred to me as the '30-06' guy. The leader of the pack had a super-cool rifle in something called a 6 Dasher or some such thing, which seemed sort of crazy in a country where the only ammo I saw was in 300 Win Mag, 30-06 and 7.62x39.
We all ended up back in the same room at the airport on our way out two weeks later. I had killed the biggest ibex by about six inches, so they were much more muted than on the way in.
In all seriousness, I had to shoot the ibex at 425 yards. I center punched the shoulder, as you can see in the photos. The ibex collapsed at the shot and rolled into a snow slide. The boar was 415, shot through the shoulder, ran 15 yards and collapsed. All with a cartridge that I can find ammo for in any reasonably well stocked Tim Horton's from here to Bulawayo. Not sure a lot can be gained as far as actual hunting goes.
I am all for having fun with obscure cartridges locally, but if I'm flying to the hunt, I'll take a 30-06 or 300 Win.
Yep. ‘aught is short for naught which is an old word for zero. Then it makes sense. In the cosmic sense it probably isn’t very important,
