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Typically. However, the best feeding pre 64 I've owned was a 30-06. EricM has it now. It feeds just as well as my 375 H&H and the 300 H&H (pre 64) I've shot.

Yeah, they are too old to shoot well Good for hanging on the wall though.

Different one I tried to pawn off on you. i have three but have shot one.

Feeds good enough in mine but no better than an '06.

The 30-06 is a world standard and great for most everything and I have more '06s than anything...but for the difference in recoil and given rifles I like equally, I would just as well hunt a .300--make mine an H&H, Win Mag or Weatherby.

My two slickest feeding rifles are a Higgins FN in '06 and another Higgins FN action in 375.

I'm certainly no gunwriter(in my dreams) but from what I can tell game travels at least 3-4 inches further after being hit with an '06. Easy choice imo.

With today's powders & bullets, the 300 H&H is better than ever, but I guess that is true for the '06 as well.

Both are competent & real performance is virtually indistinguishable, but whatever edge there might be in performance surely lies with the H&H, albeit, not a big edge.

And the "cool factor" surely lies with the H&H too.

MM

Love and have both. Can always load the H&H down but not the otherway. In the the real world theres no difference. The H&H can sling heavies some what faster but with turrets one can adjust at the scope. JMO
Yes the cool factor lies with the H&H.

The 300 H&H will do anything a 30-06 can and more. Does one need more? Hard to say, the 300 H&H is better with the heavier bullets. It may even be better than it's replacement the 300 WM at or above 200g. Mine is a pre-64 as well. Smoothest feeding rifle I have owned, accurate as in MOA or better with rounds it likes and will send a 180 at 3000fps or more. Not much not to like.

I have a couple of each and keep telling myself the '06 makes more sense. On the other hand, I spend more time with the H&H's - this one often leaves me shaking my head considering it's age and rather rough stock.



...and that's all I have to say about that

Did you really have to shoot your good Nosler book?? .. Awesome shooter and beautiful rifle, even though it looks like a beaver gnawed on the recoil pad...

Always planned to replace the pad but it's been like that all of the 13-14 yrs I've owned it - guess it's kind of grown on me...

When they shoot like that, it doesn't matter so much what they look like! Or what they are called. Damn.

Nice rifle and shooting JGray! What Leupold scope are you using on it?

Eric

Just a junky old Vari-X I 2-7 with friction adjustments (in windage adjustable rings, no less) I know - probably should get with the program: McSwirly, Talley LW, Leupy 6x42...

LoL. Heck, if it works why change it?!

You can save the McSwirly, Talley LW, Leupy 6x42... for the post '64s!

Eric

I'll likely never change a thing on it. I'd been looking for this exact rifle for some time, and shortly after I bought it I was hunting for the first time with a guy I'd just met. When I pulled it out, he immediately recognized it as his Dad's old rifle. I haven't been able to bring myself to do anything with it since.

JGray over the years,I have owned 3 pre 64 300H&H's. All three would shoot like yours, and our club VP pestered me to sell him mine after he saw it shot at 600 yards.

I guess Winchester barrels were generally just "good" and it's a riot they shoot so well....the bedding looks like nothing to write home about,but hey shoot nevertheless.

Don't even try to claim that; I can tell what people look like by what they write and you don't look anything like that. (You're shorter, fat, stocky, and bald BTW. )