Vitriolics aside
it depends on what you want....if the primary focus is deer,antelope,and maybe an elk once in awhile,I doubt it matters....
I've used the 25/06 and found it to be not much more than a noisier 257 Roberts,(that comes in heavier rifles with clubby barrels,at least in most factory offerings)which is to say it kills well but no better than a handloaded Roberts....I have failed to notice the magic.
As a general purpose BG cartridge for here and abroad it does not hang with the 270 and that cartridges ability to handle bullets from 130 to 160 grains.Palaver about JOC is irrelevent;he's been gone 30+ years yet the cartridge continues to be used on tens of thousands of BG animals annually,worldwide.
It would not have lasted if it did not work so well,and the 25/06 simply can't compete on that basis.
