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That'll work fine. The 30-06 has to be the most popular whitetail round of all time (I suspect it passed the 30-30 a long time ago). I got a chuckle out of 6 pages of guys telling you that you need magic bullets to kill a deer with a 30-06 without blowing them up like a prairie dog. Just load any bullet from 130 gr. on up at a reasonable velocity and go shoot deer, they'll work. It's what the 30-06 has been doing for a century.
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Have used the 06 for 50 years. Just don't shoot deer "in the shoulder" and you won't have blood shot meat. A 150gr bullet, through the ribs, just behind the shoulder, will take them down like they were hit by lightening, and nothing there to bloodshoot. Well, maybe the thin layer of meat on the outside of the ribs. Oh, don't shoot them in the neck either. Have seen an entire neck bloodshot from the bullet hole clear down and into the front of the shoulder area.
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Thanks everyone it's made me more confident in the '06
I really appreciate everyone's help so much !!!
Talk Later,
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Yep. I've also used the 170 Nosler Partition designed for the .30-30 at that velocity and it works well.
A lot of people have advised cup-and-core 165's loaded pretty much full up. I haven't noticed those resulting in much less damage than C&C 150's at top velocities--but there is a difference in 180's at the traditional 2700 fps or so.
Off the top of my head I've shot deer-sized game with the .30-06 and a few different bullets in the 150-200 grain range including the Barnes TSX; Berger Hunting VLD; Hornady Interlock and Interbond; Norma Oryx, Nosler AccuBond, Ballistic Tip, E-Tip and Partition; Remington Core-Lokt and Core-Lokt Ultra; Sierra GameKing and ProHunter; Speer Hot-Cor; Winchester Power Point, Silvertip and XP3--and a few others I've probably forgotten.
The monolithics do the least amount of damage at muzzle velocities over 2700, but at 2700 or less the lead-cores are pretty good too. Until you gain a bit more experience, would you refrain from comments.  
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Shoot them in the lungs with nothing more than a Hornady 165 grain spire point with 57 grains of IMR 4350 and you will tag every one of them... Advice about as good as it gets regarding what to feed a 30-06 for general hunting. 
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Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Just about any decent 150gr soft point will get the job done with a minimum amount of fuss...I've had good luck using a 150gr Hot-Cor and 50gr IMR4895...
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