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.

It's the .30-06's little brother,it'll kill most anything.Elk? i'd want bigger but Partitions will do the job.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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 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.

I don't care for Barnes in larger calibers, but in light fast rounds they are awesome.

I'd keep the 257 and not even worry bout the 25-06 nothing it will do that the 257 does not do better.

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

The 25-06 is a good flat shootin deer Killin mosheen

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!

Well crap...seeimg how i just got married a couple months ago it might not be a good thing to get it bamabart

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.

love my 25! very flat shooting and I plan on shooting it 500+ yards this year

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.

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.

I'm sure you can kill one at 1k with it all I'm saying is if you use the generally accepted rule of thumb that around 1k ft lbs is needed for an ethical kill once you go past 500 energy is below 1k ft. lbs and dropping quickly with that light bullet. I'm speaking to 110 grain. IMO if you don't make a perfect shot you are going to have one run off and die. And your chances of not making a perfect shot are greatly increased with a light bullet. Just not optimal for those ranges in my opinion.

What's your reasoning that chances to make a perfect shot are decreased by a light bullet? I would think that less recoil and less of a rainbow trajectory would increase your chances of a perfect hit rather than decrease them.

Easier for the wind to blow around and will bleed velocity quicker Clark other than that nothing.

Won't buck the wind. The BC is too low something under 5 maybe low 4's.

Here is the facts:
Caliber .25-06
Nosler 115 Partition
200 yard zero
MV = 3030
Sight Height 1.5
24 inch barrel
Max Range 1000 yd

At 700 yds
Drop = -113.9
Velocity = 1568
Energy = 628 ft. lbs.

That's wounded deer.

Caliber 7mm Rem Mag
Nosler 160 Partition
200 yard zero
MV = 2950
Sight Height 1.5
24 inch barrel
Max Range 1000 yd

At 700 yds
Drop = -106.9
Velocity = 1730
Energy = 1063 ft. lbs.

That's a dead deer.

And that's not even getting into what a 10mph cross wind would do to your dope right/left in the 2 above examples but both the Partitions have an almost equally crappy BC that's just what my calculator pulled up first.

Well,I guess I'm fine since I won't be shooting anything at 700 yards. I was thinking more around a reasonable 400 yard max.In which case you might be better off shooting a low recoiling accurate gun than a magnum that caused you to flinch.

In either case I would rather hunt elk with a larger caliber,however if I had a 25-06 and just wanted to take it and I limited my range to about 300 yards,I have no doubt that a lung shot with the 25-06 would anchor an elk just as fast as a lung shot with a 300 win.

I would just have to be more careful about the shot and limit my distance. I would take a hard angle shot with a 338 win mag where I wouldn't with a 25-06,likely a close running shot would be the same,not with the 25-06, but yes with a larger caliber.

I was just pointing out that it COULD kill one past 500. I have a 25-06 but it wouldn't be my first choice for shooting anything past 500. Paper included. It will hit like THORs hammer under 300 though.

The 25-06 is all about sex appeal!
Some men can't handle the 25-06 but the ones that do never button the top three buttons on their hunting shirt! Carry lots of condoms if you hunt with the 25-06!

And just who here has killed a deer at a confirmed 700 yards?

117gr Hornady interlocks in my Ruger m77 MKII target 25-06..Extremely accurate and will drop a deer in its tracks.Shot one at 240yrds this past season with this rifle and he hit the ground and never kicked.

me

625 is longest for me..270Win

prolly 400 yards longest with my 25/06

Well i appreciate all the input good and bad on the 25 cal i went ahead and placed the order today so hopefully this time next week i will be able to pick it up. Looking for to trying to work up some hand loads for it.

Good deal man. Mine likes the 115gr bergers and they are bad medicine on deer

117 hornadys for mine

Gonna say I know you have. Now if they were with a 25-06 I don't know.

But whether y'all believe me or not I don't care but one of my best friends shot a 7 point right at 700 yards with a 25-06. On a power line below Troy.

A fast 25 caliber like a 25-06 or 257 Roy is good for shooting deer / pronghorn out to about 500 yards or thereabouts. However, 25 cal bullets have low BC's and the velocity has a more rapid decline when compared to high BC bullets in 6.5 or 7 mm bullets at extended ranges. Also, they are more prone to wind deflection due to their low BC's.

Soon this rifle gets in I'll see if i can post up some pictures or maybe have someone else do it if i can figure it out. This rifle is a 26" barrel single shot like i said before, and 300-400yd may be will be max shots with it if that. Anything further and I'll pick up my 6.5creed or something else in the safe.

Furthest with a 25-06 was 520, wasn't my gun. 300 win mag 575yds and 1100yds. 338 lapua 620yds and 1100 yds.

Love mine. 115gr NBT. Max IMR4350.
Does great on AL deer at most typical ranges one might encounter.
If you like 130gr in 270 you really appreciate the slight milder recoil and spectacular kill powering of the 25-06.

Ive heard several people say the 25/06 hits a deer like a ton of bricks.

Yup, but it nothing to do with the barrel diameter or chamber dimensions, high speed well constructed bullets kill in dramatic fashion.

close up high speed fragile bullets are quite dramatic also. I shot a buck at 20 yards with a 25/06, 100gr Hornady soft point at 3400fps. Hit the point of the shoulder and disintergrated in a 4" diameter hole. Buck was covered with blood splatter and DRT.

I imagine they do! But I'll never know...

Quickshots gun he picked up today...fine rifle!

Appreciate the post there ol unicorn spike

good looking rifle there.

Thanks pictures don't do it justice