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Ok TX, that makes sense.
My thoughts were the practical application of shooting whitetails.
Optimum bullets weights of each caliber for medium game would be 117 and 130 respectively.
If a person wanted to shoot a larger animal 270 150gr. If you wanted a 400yd coyote killer a 2506 in 100 gr.
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Ok TX, that makes sense.
My thoughts were the practical application of shooting whitetails.
Optimum bullets weights of each caliber for medium game would be 117 and 130 respectively.
If a person wanted to shoot a larger animal 270 150gr. If you wanted a 400yd coyote killer a 2506 in 100 gr.
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The only thing you missing is that woodchucks are tough SOB's and unlike a 223, the 25-06 does a really nice job on them.
So deer wise I use 100 Gr TTSX in mine, I use 85 grain for mid to long range anything else.
I have a Sako A7 .. It shoots bug holes (smaller than a clover leaf)...
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The only thing you missing is that woodchucks are tough SOB's and unlike a 223, the 25-06 does a really nice job on them.
So deer wise I use 100 Gr TTSX in mine, I use 85 grain for mid to long range anything else.
I have a Sako A7 .. It shoots bug holes (smaller than a clover leaf)...
Woodchucks are too tough for a .223? 
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The only thing you missing is that woodchucks are tough SOB's and unlike a 223, the 25-06 does a really nice job on them.
So deer wise I use 100 Gr TTSX in mine, I use 85 grain for mid to long range anything else.
I have a Sako A7 .. It shoots bug holes (smaller than a clover leaf)...
Woodchucks are too tough for a .223? I've shot them with both, I like the 25-06 terminal results better.... EWWW... Yuck.
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Well the .22-250 was the bestest thing I ever used on them. On a still day those 40 grains would cut them in half. On breezy days the 55's got the nod.
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Dude used his .270 again this mornig.. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a401/finneyconst/2C9543DE-EE7A-4E3F-BCBC-C34FAB69138A_zpsnosgkkjt.jpg)
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My experience is the 25-06 shines with the 75/85 grain and 100 grain bullets. Heavier bullets the 270 would be my choice.
Having had 22", 24" and 26" barreled 25-06 I perfer the 24 for velocity and balance/muzzle blast.
I think a 7mm or 30 cal short action sounds like the ticket in your part of the country.
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Good for Dude!!!!! Awesome.
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A handload 260 Rem makes both cartridges redundant !!
time for some your dudes to be dragged into the 21st century, the dark ages finished along time ago......
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.260???? Is that some obsolete round!! Never see ammo or guns in this country!!
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.260???? Is that some obsolete round!! Never see ammo or guns in this country!! It will never amount to what the .270 did. And will never even catch a glimpse of the taillights of that cartridge that was developed (fine tuned?) in 1906.
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.260???? Is that some obsolete round!! Never see ammo or guns in this country!! It will never amount to what the .270 did. And will never even catch a glimpse of the taillights of that cartridge that was developed (fine tuned?) in 1906. I love the .260, but MM is right.
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Hey white rice is the most popular food in the world, doesnt mean its tasty !!
so why put up with
a longer heavier action ?
more muzzle blast, faster recoil ?
and why throw powder $$$ away when it can be done alot more efficiently.......
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If your talking a short action, modern cartridge, superb performance, efficient case design, I agree, you must be thinking of the 270 WSM.
Some Reloader 17 with 140gr Nosler Accubonds and you are talking efficient! Makes the $40 a box 260 look like white rice.
But we are not! This post is comparing 2506 to the 270.
Please feel free to start you own thread?
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Hey white rice is the most popular food in the world, doesnt mean its tasty !!
so why put up with
a longer heavier action ?
more muzzle blast, faster recoil ?
and why throw powder $$$ away when it can be done alot more efficiently.......
Faster recoil? Really?
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I'm trying to warm up to 25-06, but we haven't rounded first base yet.
I enjoy quarter-bores in the form of 250-3000, but limit them to varmint loads. I live in the northeast where 200yds is a WAY long shot.
But I just can't see where a 25-06 does anything a 270 won't do. What am I missing? The .270 which is 6.9x63 is ballistic duplication of our legendary 7x64. Surely that is enough reason to pick that instead of 25-06.
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