Love the .25-06. It was my first deer rifle my dad gave me, a pushfeed M70 XTR. Shoots great groups with Sierra 120gr HPBT over a healthy dose of 4350. Several years ago, I slipped and fell on some wet rock and cracked the stock on that rifle right at the wrist. I about cried. I fixed it with some brass pins and beaded the action and it still shoots great to this day. When my son was old enough to hunt with his own rifle, my dad gave him a .25-06 Remington 700. He has killed many deer, pigs, turkeys, goats, and coyotes with that gun.It looks like it has been to hell and back, but it still shoots great. My dad still hunts with one also, either his standby Remington or occasionally his Ruger #1.
