I've never owned a Bob, but I used to own a 6mm Remington on a Rem 700 SA. That cartridge had a lot of things that were pretty desirable, but I did not like the fact that I could not load to the cartridge design Max COL (2.825") without having feeding issues within the magazine. This was due to the short Remington box. A 257 Roberts (or 6mm Rem, or 7x57, et.al) on a Winchester SA would make a lot more sense to me due to the significantly longer box. If the 257 Roberts was as readily available as the 7mm-08, I'd have one by now - considering the ballistics, for deer hunting it is hard to imagine anything more suitable. Given the right box length, there is nothing to recommend a 25-08 over the Bob other than maybe a minutia difference in action weights based on manufacturer.
