I had a Remington 700 22" 30-06 rebarreled with a 24" Remington TI 30-06 stainless fluted barrel about 2 years ago.
Have not shot it yet !!
I'm thinking of going home to Pa. this deer season to hunt with my life long friend at his camp like in our younger days.
Been about 14 years since I've been hunting at home.
(From Pa., always from Pa.)
Back in the day, and my buddy, to this day, we used 180 gr round nose bullets. He still loads them for his Amish Machine gun.
My last buck was with a round nose.
Since I'm starting from scratch, should I pick a general purpose bullet and hunt there, and here in the west for all manner of big game, or just load something for under 100 yard Pa. white tails?
What bullets ??
Dude, as they say in Texas, it don't make much difference. I personally wouldn't go with a bullet lighter than 150, but with an 06 for deer it just don't make much difference. I even know people that use 130 grains in them. But like I said, it don't make any difference. The .30-06 is a killer of deer extraodinaire. My personal favorite load is a 200 Grain SGK over 56 grains of IMR 4831 at about 2550-2600 depending on the day. But anything between 150 and 220 will do it especially in the woods.
