25-06

[nvbroncrider]

Tell me what you guys know about it. Never been around one. But...

 

[JD338]

Jake,

The 25-06 is on my hit list as well. I think everyone should have a quarter bore!

IMHO, the 115 gr BT and BT are tough to beat for the 25-06. Slow burn rate powders like Retumbo and RL25 will wring out top performance.

JD338

 

[DrMike]

At the top of the heap for quarter bores. Everyone should own at least one.

 

[Vince]

It's a great caliber and my preference for varmints up to and including deer/antelope.

 

[SJB358]

Jake, I think it's a pretty fun rifle. I got one for Lori, as her kinda do everything rifle. With 85 grain BT's it'll be a great light varminter and with the 120 PT's or the Swift's, I have loaded up right now, it'll be a decent elk rifle. It's very light on recoil and pretty high on performance. I have been pretty impressed with it so far. I kinda thought it would make an excellent muley rifle, where you don't need 1000's of ftlbs to handle them.

 

[Guest]

It's my favorite caliber.
I haven't shot the lighter bullets at all but 110 AB and the 115 Partition do everything I've asked it to do. So far, only coyotes and deer.
I load RL22 and got the second rifles load of Retumbo from one of the folks here.
Cool caliber.
Dewey

 

[Oldtrader3]

Now, I happen to prefer a hyped up .257 Roberts but that is just me. I had a .25-06 Model 70 for several years and used it as a coyote and mountain deer rifle. Frankly on killing deer, there is not much difference between a .25-06, 120 grain Partition and a .270 Win, .130 grain Partition.

 

[rjm158]

What everyone else said. It is my go to deer caliber but I load the 100 BT's with 4831. In my experience, if the shooter does his/her part it will put deer on the ground NOW with a minimal amount of recoil and stellar accuracy. I've not had the chance to shoot a coyote with mine but I have heard from others that it will nearly cut some in half with the right bullet/placement.

Ron

 

[Rigbymauser]

Tell me what you guys know about it. Never been around one. But...

Well...the 25-06 and the .240Wea share ballistics just about in all bulletweights...that makes that caliber a very flatshooting round with more widely acces to brass(economics). The only drawback is the heaviest bulletweight is 120grain Vs 115 grain for the 6mm. But again one doesn´t get a 25cal rifle to shoot 300grain bullets. If I were to to have a .25-06 it was because it can have 100grain bullets yelling out of the barrel with +3400 f/sec, taking up to 150ibs game at long range.

 

[truck driver]

If I wanted a 25 cal and didn't already own a 257 Rob I would buy a 25-06. It seems that all the 06 based cartridges are great performers and the availability of brass will always be there.

 

[PJGunner]

I have two, both Ruger #1Bs. The first one wasa bit doggy and was slated to be the door for a .35 Whelen. The second ond I got a few months later was so cherry it looked like it was just out of the box.They sau to never shoot the donor. That rather doggy rifle will punch out cloverleaf groups all day long. The pretty one thinks it's a shotgun. So far the best it has done has been 4" groups and that's being kind. Guess which one will end up being the donor. Three guesses and the first two don't count. :lol:
Paul B.

 

[1Shot]

The 25-06 is my favorite caliber for deer. I helped control hunt a big farm in east NC for 15 years where we had to take 100 deer a year off the farm. I and my buddy killed them with about everything between a stick and a 45-70. We both think the 25-06 is the pick of the litter. It is amazingly accurate, shoots really flat, has very little recoil and kills deer in their tracks about 99% of the time. 117 Sierra, 115 ballistic tip, and 115 partitions are our bullets of choice for deer. As a varmint rifle you can really reach out there with the 25-06 and with the lighter pills it will red mist things.
My current 25-06 is a custom one using a Remington Sportsman 78 action (poor mans 700 made back in the 1980s) with a #6 Shilen SS select 26" barrel in an H&S precision stock with a Zeiss Diavari VM/V 30mm tube 3-12X56 with a #8 reticle scope in Leupold mounts and rings. With 49 grs IMR or AA 4350 and a 117 Sierra Pro Hunter, Rem. case, CCI 250 primer it will do 3000 fps and shoot 1/2 MOA or better all day long.

 

[bobnob]

25-06 combined with a 30-06 would just about be my perfect all round big game two-rifle battery.

 

[truck driver]

25-06 combined with a 30-06 would just about be my perfect all round big game two-rifle battery.

Hmmmm! I love my 30-06 but would like to have a 35 whelen to top off my collection for Bear.
For now the 300Wby will have to do.
Anyone have a nice 35 Whelen they would like to trade? :mrgreen:

 

[Guy Miner]

Easy to load for, easy on the shoulder, flat shooting, accurate, and lethal as all get out.

That's what I think of the .25-06! I've done most of my hunting the past eight years or so with one, mostly mule deer & coyotes and it's worked out just great. I keep it sighted in at 300 yards and have made first round hits/drops out to 420 yards, holding on hair! Have used several bullets but my current favorite is the 115 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip. Easy to get 3100+ fps with excellent accuracy and superb results on game.

Had one-shot instant kills on my mule deer & pronghorn last fall. Both bullets exited as well.

Guy

 

[SJB358]

Man, all this 25-06 talk has me revved up to break out the wife's 25-06 and do a little shooting....

 

[CatskillCrawler]

Man, all this 25-06 talk has me revved up to break out the wife's 25-06 and do a little shooting....

Was the thinking the same. I hadn't worked with our 25-06 in over 8 years. Re-did loads with it last year and man it really got me thinking. I just don't know what it would replace, the .270, 257Bob or 7mm-08? It's not a .308 bore or larger replacement IMO but any non-magnum under that has little if not anything on it.

Great cartridge.

 

[nvbroncrider]

Well thanks guys I was trying to pick up a beautiful SG but it went a little richer than my blood. So I guess I'm gonna have to settle for something else. Maybe the 7X57 that's sitting 54 miles away.

 

[SJB358]

That 7x57 wouldn't be a bad one either! That's another cartridge that just works darned well, and loaded to modern specs doesn't give up much. I'd like to have one of my own someday.

 

[Oldtrader3]

There is a BRNO Model 21, 7x57 on GunBroker that is got my attention, I wish I could afford it. It is auction #363327568.