Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Any love for the 30/06

here here the 30-06 is still King and after over 100 years still gets the job done well ! plus was used in 2 World Wars ,Viet Nam ,Korea , plus many other places and battles ,also has killed every animal in the world too. ammo can be found anyplace in the world too. so what is to not like about the old 30-06 ?

I've got 7, mostly military. Need to exercise them, soon.
My primary big game rifle for many years has been a red pad #1.
It's accounted for quite a few antelope, Mule deer, elk, and several coyotes that happened by.
One more is a commercial Mauser - I forget who made it, but it needs exercise also.
The last few years, I've hunted with a 30-40 Krag, and a 30-30 Marlin, just for the heck of it! (No luck, though - not enough time)

I've owned dozens of 30-06 rifles. It's the biggest thing that I consistently shoot well so I always come back to it.


Okie John

I have 4. I use my 700 some for plinking around. Until I was 25 it was my go to rifle. Now ir has probably been close 20 years since I picked that custom model 54 out of the safe to go hunting. If an 06 was all I had to use hunting, I would be bored and probably give it up.

I may need to buy one of those Ruger Guide Guns in 30/06 now! Anyone have one??

Don't ya just love it when a bunch of us '06 fans start coming out of the closet....

Not too sexy, not new, not the latest, greatest thing, just boringly efficient and deadly in the right hands.

And as so many have said, what's not to like. It works.

And I'll quote Col Whelen once again, "The '06 is never a mistake", or something to that effect.

And he shot other rounds, didn't limit himself to the '06, but he understood what it was and he liked it.

Me, too.

DF

Joined the 06 club after a buddy talked about how surprised he was his clearance Tikka superlite shot. Figured I needed a nice light 30/06 found a stainless lite, gun shoots better than I can with 130gr barns tsx and varget.

Most of the new calibers won't do a thing that the '06 won't do as well or better.

In WWII, it killed box car loads of krauts and Japs.

Yes sir

I shot a bunch of elk with a 300 WSM. Then I added it up and found that there wasn't a single one of them that I couldn't have got just as well with an '06 that weighs a pound less to carry.

‘06 would kill’em as dead, but you were getting style points with that WSM. ‘06 just not as cool.

DF

Any love for the 30-06? Yes, however, i started out with an 06. Kept one for bear for a while. I had a Rem. 700 and was my most accurate gun I ever had including my Savage 12 fv in .223 rem.. It kicked a lot , had a .270 WIn. anyway so I sold my 06 cause guys were mixing .270 win. and 06 ammo . Now days, I never even shoot my .270 Win.. My go to deer gun is a .243 Win and never fails . It is cheaper to load , that is for sure. The Creedmores are going to take a bite out of the 06. Ya just dont need that much gun anymore.

Deer not as tough these days?

No need or desire for a 30-06 rifle. I hunt with a Savage lever gun in .308 and it has slain much big game for me across the decades of use. Sherwood

I have shot alot of elk that my friends packing their old 06 said too far for me. The 06 will do a lot of things ok, but to me it is never a star performer.

Cmon!

What is the farthest one shot kill you have made on a bull elk and what cartridge did you use???

That would be more the shooter than the cartridge.

If one isn't comfortable then one shouldn't shoot.

Uncle killed his last bull with an '06, 180 SST right around 460 yards.

His bud used a 300 Winchester Mag and his shot was about the same distance. Uncle said the bull shot with the '06 traveled less distance after the shot. Doesn't mean much but there are no flies on it in the right hands.

The .30-06 is like the .308 but for men.

Ouch…

DF