Bruce Mc
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Nothing but the classic 270 Winchester Center Fire.
Favourite 30-06-based Cartridge?
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Yoteklr
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Do you have a source for 6.5-06 AI dies ?
I've been looking for months.
My favorite on the 06 case was my first center fire rifle that I mowed lawns for in the mid 1980's. Because I shoot left handed I opted for a Remington 7600 in the father of them all, the 30/06 Springfield!
But by 1990 I was out of college and wanted something different so I decided I wanted a left-handed rifle in the same caliber as my uncle whom I worked for. I wanted a 25/06! It happened that Browning was cataloging the left-handed Stainless Stalker 25/06 in '90 but they didn't hit the wholesalers until the following year. I caught one of the first that Zanders had in their warehouse. Because of where I was hunting at that time I killed more deer with that 25/06 than any other one gun that I own. I don't hunt it often anymore but did take a 300+ pound sow with it last deer season. She wasn't but about 90 yards when I shot her in the eye. She just collapsed! I have confidence in that rifle, caliber and scope, a VX3 4.5-14x, to kill any deer that walks. My preferred load pushes a 100gr Nosler Partition at a chronographed 3400 fps. I have a box of the 110 gr Accubonds to try but I haven't loaded them because I don't know what they'll do that my Partitions can't.
All that to say that the 25/06 is now my favorite offspring of the 30/06!
But by 1990 I was out of college and wanted something different so I decided I wanted a left-handed rifle in the same caliber as my uncle whom I worked for. I wanted a 25/06! It happened that Browning was cataloging the left-handed Stainless Stalker 25/06 in '90 but they didn't hit the wholesalers until the following year. I caught one of the first that Zanders had in their warehouse. Because of where I was hunting at that time I killed more deer with that 25/06 than any other one gun that I own. I don't hunt it often anymore but did take a 300+ pound sow with it last deer season. She wasn't but about 90 yards when I shot her in the eye. She just collapsed! I have confidence in that rifle, caliber and scope, a VX3 4.5-14x, to kill any deer that walks. My preferred load pushes a 100gr Nosler Partition at a chronographed 3400 fps. I have a box of the 110 gr Accubonds to try but I haven't loaded them because I don't know what they'll do that my Partitions can't.
All that to say that the 25/06 is now my favorite offspring of the 30/06!
