I own a 25-06 a 25th anniversary gift from my wife 10 years ago that is a great local deer & hopefully an antelope rifle one of these days. I’d rather have had a 257 Weatherby in hindsight but it’s a very useful cartridge for mid sized game & even an OK woman/kid elk gun.
I had a squirrel of a scope on mine to start so thought it fell short of its reputation as very accurate. Once I replaced it my affection for the rifle has increased. But I think the new long bullet craze has likely doomed it to the back of the used gun racks. I don’t miss the 30-40 Krag I sold years ago it was a deer killer but the ugliest rifle I’ve ever owned & not very efficient. The 25-06 has a long way to go before it reaches Krag status but the creedmoor probably has signaled its demise.
