Ringman,
Reread my initial post. If you are a real gunbuff? you may know velocity is not always the Holy Grail. If pure velocity is what you are looking for, you are looking at the wrong cartridge. The 30-06 cartridge is one of the best cartridges known. It is not the fastest or most accurate. If you look at both of my post, I said the advantage is the larger bullets, not the 150s. Don't take part of it and decide what you think I wrote. Tell me what you gain with 187fps. What if the most accurate load was 2750, would you go faster because it could or would you shoot the most accurate load?
I have been around the block.
Butch
Hello Butch, Glad you have been around the block. Let me get this straight. I have 2 choices given both rifles are MOA and both shooting a 180gr Nosler Accubond. I can take a cross canyon 350 yard shot at an Elk and my vanilla '06 provides a vel of 2151 with E=1849 and a drop of 10.1 inches. Or I can shoot my '06 AI that provides a vel of 2313 with E=1993 and a drop of 8.7 inches. Lets see, this is hard....I think I'll take the AI as it provides more Energy and less bullet drop....was that so hard? Regards, Rick.
