Originally Posted by DarlaG
rickt300,

For your information, my husband (Tex) uses & often hunts Whitetail Deer & Axis deer with a Remington pump rifle in .30-06. - He calls that "rather beat-up looking" rifle, "The Pickup Gun" & keeps it loaded with his homemade gas-check cast bullets, in front of 13 grains of Red Dot shotgun powder.
(Tex says often to new shooters that, "Whitetails just aren't that hard to kill & most any .30-caliber cast bullet load that is moving over 12 or 1300 feet per second will work just fine, at the distance that most deer are killed here in south Texas.")

MERRY CHRISTMAS from both of us. - "Jesus is the reason for the season".

Sincerely, DarlaG


I surely wasn't knocking the 30-06, my first custom rifle was an '06. I just am not overly impressed with the150 grain Corelokt or Remington brass in general. I still have that 30-06 and another in a Weatherby Vangaurd. I still occasionally cast my own bullets but I am hoping to shoot up all the jacketed bullets I have collected over the years before I kick the bucket!

Dog I rescued in January

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