Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game "The 30-06 is obsolete!"

Before you get too excited, remember that the loads almost everyone hunts with in .30-06, even the "hot" ones out of reloading manuals, don't exceed .308 performance at all or only by a exceedingly limited amount < 50 ft/s. If you think those loads in .30-06 are good, then you have to like the .308 even more since it does exactly the same thing with less recoil in the same weight gun (or lighter gun, same recoil). The only .30-06 loads that exceed .308 performance use a very limited number of powders - RL16/17, RL25/26, and a couple of European ones. And very little manufacturer data is available for those powders, so the only way you'll actually see ANY advantage out of the .30-06 without just randomly making loads up is to use Quick Load, which seems to chap your hide to no end