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Or drop them before they get too far away from the tower.


Now that's funny LOL..

The funniest part is that you called it "hunting".

The .30-06 is a great cartridge and I own two rifles so chambered. I also bought one as a wedding present for my son-in-law.

My "do all" rifle, however, is still my 7mm RM.

It's great because it works in the greatest autoloader of all time!

That is really true... I have had 3 but now each of my sons have one & I have none.

But this too will change

The 30-06 is a pleasure to load for... and as you say very versatile


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This is certainly a "trollers,flamers thread", however, The 270 Winchester is my favorite cartridge. I have killed everything up thru elk ,and down to prairie dogs, good job on all. Own 2. That said, I really love the 30-06, and have killed a bunch of stuff with it also. Can't remember any p-dogs, but I can attest to a bunch of elk going down with it, and a lot of pass thru's with Nosler Partitions. Own 4. Excellent cartridge, with lots of neat guns chambered for it, and if you're going to beat the 06, it's probably only on paper (ballistic tables)anyway!

Jerry

It's so boring. It's not perfect. I've sold most of my rifles. The one I use the most is the 06. I almost hate to say it because I really like the 270 and 243.

In the last few years I trimmed down on the number of big game rifles I own. All the sub-30 calibers were consolidated it a 3006 Sako Finnlight and all the above 30 calibers were consolidated into a 9.3x66 Sako. Two calibers -similar rifles for all British Columbia hunting. Probably not the best for anything but a lot like the number one selling pickup truck on earth Ford F-150 does alot of things well.

Killed my first buck with one way back in 1960.
Currently own two, both designed more for elk hunting than anything else.
I wouldn't call it "perfect." But I will say that it meets my needs as an elk rifle better than anything else in the rifles I've choosen as my elk rifles.
Considering how demanding I am of my rifles, that say it right there. E

Love the 30-06 its always a good choice but there is always a better choice.

Design wise yes.

my dad has a 30-06 and he kills lots of deers. I want one but i just have a 243 that my dad takes for me. i will get a 30-06 if my dad lets me.

I have seen a lot of " I need this rifle,I need that rifle in such and such a cartridge".Guys go up and down the scale, buying new rifles very year,hunting for that magic combination that you could almost send the rifle out by itself and it will kill game. Been there myself. Then in later years,you come to realize that the 06,that you started hunting with 30 years ago, still does everything you want to do.

Just think of all the money one could have saved and then spent on actual hunting trips if they would have just stuck with the .06 long ago.

There might be perfect rifles and cartridges fror a lot of specific hunts,but the .06 will still work on about any hunt in the lower 48 states.

Agreed, for centerfire hunting rifles I'm down to a 30-06, and a 223. Those two would have covered all the hunting I've done all along but I sure enjoyed trying all the others.

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I love my 30-06, flat love it. It's a 22" with a sporter-profile Pac-Nor barrel, in a hogged-out laminate Mountain Rifle stock with the butt hollowed. It balanced perfectly, recoil is a non-issue, and I'd hunt ANYTHING with it that I want to hunt.

That said, I always seem to be hunting with something else <g>. Either bigger (for elk) or smaller (for deer).

I LOVE the 30 naught 6!! The only think wrong with it is that its boring, its been there and done that to death, literaly.

It was the first bolt action I ever purchased-kilt the most game with it vs. all of my other rifles-will be the one i NEVER git rid of..................it don't suck!

Got a good friend I hike with occasionally. A fellow we trail run with went with us one time and showed up with a very new pair of hiking boots. She told him they were nice and asked what happened to the old pair. Didn't like them as much as these he explained, saw them and had to have them.

Asked her about that later. She told me something I haven't forgotten "There's only one good reason for buying a new pair of hiking boots - the old ones gave out."

I think she was right about most situations and guns ain't a whole lot different. A good 30-06 makes a whole lot of stuff unnecessary... maybe even wasteful.

Will

If everyone felt that way, ugly women would have no problem getting dates. Then again, this IS the Campfire...

I like ugly women AND .30-06s.

Just bought another one yesterday.