For what it's worth (and as usual, I see lot's of fella's here that have a bunch of faith in the 25-06 as I do), every animal I've shot with the 25-06 goes down hard and DRT results are quite normal.
For whatever reason's (and I don't think it has to do so much with bullet's alone), the 25-06 has the capacity to do much more "work" than generally given credit for. Hit's from '06's, .270's and 270WSM's show little, if any more terminally effective results than the smaller diameter and less recoiling, 25-06.....all else being equal (shot placement, distance's.....etc.).
Just my take...............
