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25-06 #2083972
04/09/17 04:56 PM
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Looking like this will be my next purchase so with that being said what kinda accuracy/performance should i be expecting? I own a 257wby and love it but never had much dealings with the 25-06. Mainly plain on using it for deer/possibly elk if i brave taking it and or just shooting the rifle is a Browning B-78 26" barrel single shot.

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2083998
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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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084035
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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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084051
04/09/17 11:59 PM
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Elk hunting it would a heu there's ome while having a muley tag lets take it kinda moment.im a big fan of accubonds Nd ahoot them in the 257wby i have amd was leanimg towards them, but am also kind of interested in the barnes bullets, but like i said it'll be primarily deer size game rifle if anything.

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084302
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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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084336
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I don't intentionally plain on using it for elk but when i do go out west again this year i would like to try and take a speed goat or muley. I have taked elk before with a 270 and 6.5creedmore and both worled really well

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084350
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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?
Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084373
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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

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I have been hunting with one since 92 and it is the best rifle I have every owned. I shoot a Nosler 100gr B/T. I have killed lots of hogs and more deer than I can count. It seems to knock down the bigger deer better the the small ones. I can't remember the last time a buck ran more then 20 yards but a few does have ran as much as 100 yards. I bow hunt most of the time so I don't use it much anymore only 5 buck in the last 6 years, the longest shot was 180 yards.

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084637
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Originally Posted By: quickshot
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?
Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084825
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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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084855
04/10/17 02:52 PM
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The 257 ain't going anywhere i promise you that its just the 25-06 is what this particular rifle i have been looking for for some time is in i will use it from time to time on "special hunts green field etc" or just really to take out and play with from time to time

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2084886
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The 25-06 is a good flat shootin deer Killin mosheen


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Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2086146
04/11/17 08:08 PM
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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 [Re: quickshot] #2086165
04/12/17 12:35 AM
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Well crap...seeimg how i just got married a couple months ago it might not be a good thing to get it bamabart rofl

Re: 25-06 [Re: quickshot] #2086298
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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 [Re: quickshot] #2086398
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love my 25! very flat shooting and I plan on shooting it 500+ yards this year


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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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: Goatkiller] #2086590
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Originally Posted By: Goatkiller
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.


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Re: 25-06 [Re: Goatkiller] #2086806
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Originally Posted By: Goatkiller
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.

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