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Re: 25-06
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#2083998
04/09/17 05:24 PM
04/09/17 05:24 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 12,807 behind my Dillon
dave260rem!
Skinny’s Ex
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Skinny’s Ex
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 12,807
behind my Dillon
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It's the .30-06's little brother,it'll kill most anything.Elk? i'd want bigger but Partitions will do the job.
Skinny is my EX.Alcohol was involved.
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Re: 25-06
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04/09/17 07:03 PM
04/09/17 07:03 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,653 Tuscaloosa Co.
N2TRKYS
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,653
Tuscaloosa Co.
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I love mine. I'm shooting 110 grain Accubonds in it with great accuracy. If I were gonna elk hunt with it, I would load it up with 120 grain Partitions.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Re: 25-06
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#2084302
04/10/17 06:25 AM
04/10/17 06:25 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,359 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,359
alabama
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25/06 is a great greenfield doe gun, can be a good big buck gun with premium bullets such as the Nosler Partition. I personally wouldn't want to shoot an elk with one...too damn small. I know hundreds of elk have been killed by locals out west with em, but on a short trip I'd damn sure tote a different rifle for elk. They are big, tough, and show little reaction to a bullet hit.
Good antelope and mule deer gun.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: 25-06
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04/10/17 06:54 AM
04/10/17 06:54 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 9,658 Pisgah Al
Bigbamaboy
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 9,658
Pisgah Al
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I'd load that dude with some Barnes TSX and let her eat. Idk about elk, but a deer wouldn't stand a snowballs chance.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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Re: 25-06
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04/10/17 11:18 AM
04/10/17 11:18 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 9,658 Pisgah Al
Bigbamaboy
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 9,658
Pisgah Al
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Tsx I'm interested in i used the barnes x in a 300win once wasn't all to impressed but that was a long time ago but with everyone talking bout the tsx and how well they work i wouldn't mind trying some. Love the accubonds had great success with those and the partition I don't care for Barnes in larger calibers, but in light fast rounds they are awesome.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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Re: 25-06
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04/10/17 02:16 PM
04/10/17 02:16 PM
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,243 Behind your shadow
Reloader79
Bitch Peas, I'm a Kitty Whisperer
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Bitch Peas, I'm a Kitty Whisperer
Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,243
Behind your shadow
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I'd keep the 257 and not even worry bout the 25-06 nothing it will do that the 257 does not do better.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
Bluetick serpentines around green fields and rock spit a lease
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Re: 25-06
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04/11/17 08:08 PM
04/11/17 08:08 PM
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Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 8,622 Blount County
BamaBart
Panty Wearin' Hunter
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Panty Wearin' Hunter
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 8,622
Blount County
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A 25-06 will make you feel just a little sexier when you carry it! Be prepared to be groped by female huntresses in camp. The sexual powers of the 25-06 has caused many divorces throughout the hunting community!
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Re: 25-06
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#2086298
04/12/17 03:53 AM
04/12/17 03:53 AM
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,214 B'ham
Goatkiller
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 9,214
B'ham
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Here's my thoughts... it is a good deer and antelope gun I wouldn't use it on elk I think it is too light. Elk are tough animals if you want to put one's nose in the dirt you need bigger. It will kill an Elk sure and lots have been killed with it no doubt, but so will a .22lr. If you don't handload that's fine. I like the 110 Accubonds others have mentioned I'm sure someone offers them in factory loads. 25-06 isn't going to be as fast as the .257 but I don't think a deer will notice the difference.
Long range means different things to different people so when the cartridge first came out 40 years or something before it was standardized in the late 1960's it was billed as a long range flat shooting cartridge that meant 3-400 yards shots like a laser beam. That was long range in a time when a lot of people were still shooting a 30-30, .35 Rem, etc.. Think... nobody every heard of a 7mm Mag back then and at some point after that there was a crazy guy named Roy Weatherby running around in the 1940's with something he called a .257 Weatherby Magnum that some turned their nose up at, others got on board with, and yet others though it was a barrel burner glorified varmint rifle. After WWII the market was flooded with surplus guns for decades. .25-06 was a flat shooter. And still is but it isn't a 500+ yard gun.
So what you are thinking about buying I think will make a great deer rifle. Not quite a .257 but just a good solid cartridge. Looking at the ballistic tables you'll see that you can easily shoot just over 300 yards with scope adjustment or Kentucky windage. That's far enough for most. Sure I can shoot further myself, but I don't have much trouble getting within 300 yards of a deer if I can see one that far.
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Re: 25-06
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04/12/17 06:13 AM
04/12/17 06:13 AM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 1,391 Dothan, AL
huntbig
8 point
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8 point
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Posts: 1,391
Dothan, AL
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love my 25! very flat shooting and I plan on shooting it 500+ yards this year
It's a sanctuary.
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Re: 25-06
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04/12/17 09:16 AM
04/12/17 09:16 AM
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Posts: 9,214 B'ham
Goatkiller
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 9,214
B'ham
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Just to clarify shooting at paper is fine but I don't think it has the energy needed past 500 yards. Your chances of not hitting an animal "exactly right" are exponentially increased the further out you go and that light bullet.... yea, forget it. Get something heavier, better energy and buck the wind. You need it.
One man's opinion.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: 25-06
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04/12/17 10:10 AM
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Posts: 3,850 Dothan/Hartford,Al
87dixieboy
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,850
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Just to clarify shooting at paper is fine but I don't think it has the energy needed past 500 yards. Your chances of not hitting an animal "exactly right" are exponentially increased the further out you go and that light bullet.... yea, forget it. Get something heavier, better energy and buck the wind. You need it.
One man's opinion. It does matter where you hit them but I have seen a few die at 500 with the 25-06 and it has more than enough umph at that range to get the job done. Bullet selection would be my biggest stressor.
Only accurate rifles are interesting.
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Re: 25-06
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#2086806
04/12/17 02:58 PM
04/12/17 02:58 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,375 Jasper, AL
joshm28
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,375
Jasper, AL
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Just to clarify shooting at paper is fine but I don't think it has the energy needed past 500 yards. Your chances of not hitting an animal "exactly right" are exponentially increased the further out you go and that light bullet.... yea, forget it. Get something heavier, better energy and buck the wind. You need it.
One man's opinion. It has plenty of energy to get to 800-900 yards depending on bullets. Actually it only has roughly 150 ft/lbs difference at 1000 yards comparing it to a .308. Ballistics coefficient has much more to do with it than weight.
Last edited by joshm28; 04/12/17 02:59 PM.
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