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I'ved used the 117gr Sierra Game King for years with good results. Most are drt or pretty close to it. I have been considering giving the accubonds a go since I don't get as many pass throughs as I would like with the Game Kings.

That’s a fast moving BB out of the 25-06.... velocity is good for expansion with copper solids which would be pretty much all of them!

The load data from Barnes has the 80gr. TTSX flying at 3700-3800 FPS.

Smack!!!!

My cousin could fill a traincar with deer he's killed using Remington 100gr. Core-lokt bullets. I've only killed one deer with a .25/06, and I was using a 100gr. Partition. My deer wasn't any deader than his, though.

I've read a good many reports over the years where the 100 gr. Core-lokt worked good on WT's. I want to try them, but old habits die hard and without any failures on the deer I have killed with the 120's, just can't justify trying anything else...even if it is another Core-Lokt.

Earl (yes, it's his real name) just bought whatever he could find at a price point, and he'd buy a case and call it good. His first case when he bought the .25/06, was Remington 100s. I sighted the rifle in for him, and it shot well, and recoil was negligible. I've shot that rifle quite a bit (Remington ADL, walnut stock, pretty plain). He had to restock it some years ago, after he'd backed his truck across the thing one day. Later, he had to cut a couple inches off the end of the barrel and have it recrowned (bore obstruction). He's a farmer, not a gun guy, though he owns a helluva lot of decent rifles. He's just a putz, a really lucky deer-killing putz.

He kills deer in Missouri, where there are a lot of deer, and he kills multiples almost every year on his farm ground. He's got some big guns, but always shoots the .25/06, or a 6mm Rem. or lately a .243 WSSM when he can find ammo for it. He doesn't like recoil.

ratsmacker...one of the best deer hunters I have ever known shot an old single shot shotgun. Never knew him to own a rifle, and the shotgun he used looked to be his age when I knew him (late 60's to early 70's back then). Sometimes we way overthink this deer hunting thing. Make it more complicated than it really is. Neat story, and you and Earl sound like my kind of men. Thanks for the story...Eddie

LOVE the Fusion's out of my Tikka!

Before I started reloading all I shot was the 100 gr Core Loct. Killed lots of deer over the years with those.