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I'm going to try some different ammo this year out of my .30-06. I've shot Remington Core-Lokt 165 grain for several years but I'm thinking about trying something different. I'm only interested in off-the-shelf ammo because I have no reloading equipment. What has been your favorite .30-06 shell for deer?
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Federal "Blue Box" 150gr. All a guy really needs for deer, before I started reloading I shot a lot of whatever 150gr bullet was handy. The cheapie Federals always shot about the best.
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The last factory load I used was Hornady's custom 165. Their 165 Interlock loaded by the factory.
My 30-06 handload for deer is the classic 57 grains of IMR4350 and... a 165 Hornady Interlock. I just rarely carry a 30-06 for deer any more.
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The old Federal Blue Box "Power Shock" is hard to beat.
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Nothing wrong with a 165 Core Lokt for price and performance. You can try a Nosler Ballistic Tip?
I use a 165 Hornaday Interlokt in my 06.
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Can't speek for factory fodder but my 30-06 deer load is the same one I have used for everything from elk, pronghorn, deer here in the lower 48.....to eleven different species of game in Afrca
150 grn Accubonds pushed to my rifles comfort zone
165's on a TTSX sounds good but so do 165 Accubonds
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Federal "Blue Box" 150gr. All a guy really needs for deer, before I started reloading I shot a lot of whatever 150gr bullet was handy. The cheapie Federals always shot about the best. This would be my first choice if I couldn't reload, followed VERY closely by the Hornady Custom 165 gr load. My reloads of 57.0gr of H-4350 under a Hornady 165 gr Interlock beat both, but not by much in my Mod 700 Mt. Rifle. Ed
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I got to see Ed's rifle kill some stuff, and it works real well. miles
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Federal Fusion is what you're looking for.
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Last factory stuff I ran out of an '06 was the same Rem 165gr. core-loct that you're using. If I were to run factory ammo in my '06, I wouldn't change anything.
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Back when I was using a 30-06 I used factory 150 gr Core Lokts for everything without a problem. If the 165's are working for you why change?
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60 gr RL-22 under a 200 gr Partition for all things 30-06, deer included.
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Another vote for Federal Blue Box.
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Same as my favorite '06 load for all big game. 168TTSX, at about 2900, backed by RL-15 and WLRs in R-P brass.
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U guys miss the part on factory ammo only?
Closest I can come to white tails is caribou. 150, 165, 180 all work fine in Corelokts. In my 27 inch heavy bbl rifle I am currently using Hornady SST 150 Superperformance for their flatter trajectory beyond 300 yards. Impressive wound channels. Corelokts 150s have marginal better groups in that rifle but not enough to matter. So far I have only taken 4 animals with the SSTs - 2 caribou on Nov 1 at 300 and200 yards, and the next day an orphaned caribou calf at maybe 70 yards and a moose at 30. All bang flops.
I must admit 180s are my fav for no particular reason. They all work about the same given proper placement.
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Federal Fusion is what you're looking for. I have heard good things about these. Only experience I've had with them was sighting in a friend's rifle, him being a newbie and clueless. I didnt want to burn up anymore of his single box of ammo than I must and was switching from Corelokts to Hornady SST myself so did the initials with my "leftover" Corelokts, same weight as his Fusions. I was quite surprised to find a vertical poi difference of nearly 6 inches at 100,the Fusions going low and an inch or two left of the Rems. Group sizes were very close. I've drawn no conclusions or preferences from this without more comparison. Just throwing out the info.
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180 round nose core lokt's.
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U guys miss the part on factory ammo only?
Closest I can come to white tails is caribou. 150, 165, 180 all work fine in Corelokts. In my 27 inch heavy bbl rifle I am currently using Hornady SST 150 Superperformance for their flatter trajectory beyond 300 yards. Impressive wound channels. Corelokts 150s have marginal better groups in that rifle but not enough to matter. So far I have only taken 4 animals with the SSTs - 2 caribou on Nov 1 at 300 and200 yards, and the next day an orphaned caribou calf at maybe 70 yards and a moose at 30. All bang flops.
I must admit 180s are my fav for no particular reason. They all work about the same given proper placement. Read the title. I don't shoot factory '06.
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Read the post! OP doesn't do reloading so yours is useless to him. Get a life
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