Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Surely none of you are crass enough to use a 30-06 on deer!

Nice rifle and I always liked Power Points better than Corelokts and the added bonus they come in Winchester brass!

I surely wasn't knocking the 30-06, my first custom rifle was an '06. I just am not overly impressed with the150 grain Corelokt or Remington brass in general. I still have that 30-06 and another in a Weatherby Vangaurd. I still occasionally cast my own bullets but I am hoping to shoot up all the jacketed bullets I have collected over the years before I kick the bucket!

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Thirty ought-six Ti - I bought a case of Federal Nosler 180gr when I got it, because it shoots it so well I don’t reload for it yet.

I've been called a "booger-eating moron," "trailer trash" and " a gap-toothed inbreed" and on this forum for my previous avowal that I hunted with a Remington 742 in 30-06. I was always amazed at how precise one could predict a man's dentition and mode of living from a rifle choice.

Let me set things straight. First off, I had serious dental work done, and no longer have the gap. Secondly I have never lived in anything resembling a mobile home. All my houses have been brick. As to the inbred part, it is true that KYHillChick and I have mothers with the same last name. We checked and on my side there is only one uncle unaccounted for after the Civil War. He didn't die. He just liked it where he was and stayed. The families did know each other, and various elements fought together at Kings Mountain NC and in the early parts of the Revolution in New Jersey. I'd say that's far enough back to be safe.

I stopped using my 742 in 2004, and replaced it with a 7600 in 35 Whelen. However, my most recent favorite is a Ruger Hawkeye in 30-06. It has accounted for 8 deer in 5 seasons. Overall, I can say that 42 of the last 70 deer shot from our deer camp have been taken by 30-06.

My appreciation of the 30-06 has never flagged in nearly 40 years, despite all the name calling. Before 2001 I was flinging a 180 grain roundnose load at whitetails out of a treestand. Since then I have switched to a 165 grain Hornady Interlock and could not ask for better performance. Every deer shot with that load has either fallen where they were shot or I could stand in that spot and see the carcass.

Two deer rifle's do most of my work for me. A Savage Model 99 in 300 that I bought off one of the old members for our camp who'd hung up his gear. Pretty hard not to carry a gun with such provenance. We called the first generation members of our camp the Olde Guard. Sadly, they're all gone now, but Bob's legacy lives on in this fine old rifle. My other deer rifle is a Mauser chambered for 30-06. Dad bought this when he did a couple moose hunts up in Canada. It was a military action some outfit rounded up and put an aftermarket '06 barrel on. Cheap hardwood stock, bent bolt, scope safety. There's a bazillion of these out there. I killed my first deer with that rifle, and many others along the way. I had the stock glass bedded and free floated, and a Timney trigger dropped into it, and it's scary accurate. So in the woods, it's the 99, but if I'm hunting a power line, gas line, or open field where I can reach out a bit, it's the '06.

I’m gonna go load a 30-06 up in a few minutes, head out to Burnet county.

Been hunting for 25 years and never owned a .30'06.


I've hunted with .270Win most of the time, but did have brief flings with 7STW, 7UM, 7mmRemMag and 300WSM.


Last year I bought a M700 CDL in 30'06 and have just ordered a Ruger M77 Hawkeye FTW in 30'06. I think I'll do the lions share of my future hunting with these two guns once I get them set up.

I am over due to try again. Enjoyable.

You jumped in with both feet. What prompted this?

naa... I reserve my 30-06 for squirrel hunting.

So loaded with 150gn Partitions, my lucky deer bullet.

The 06 is a helluva skwerl killer.

Yes, it is. And legal here to do just that. But not legal in the same woods, at the same time for deer. Doesn't leave much behind to clean either.

kellory,

a PBCB .30-06 load at about .32-40WCF speed (1300-1400 FPS) does a FINE job on small to medium game AND that's excellent practice for big game hunting.

.30 caliber hole for a "pass through" on the small/medium size critters, little edible meat "blood-shot" & the pelt is not ruined either.

just my OPINION, tex

I have one 30-06; an older Remington 700 ADL with a nice wooden stock and blued barrel, and I do like the gun. But it never ends up in the woods with me and therefore rarely gets out to the range meaning I also don't reload for it often. I would probably sell it but cant bring myself to because its currently the only wooden-stocked bolt action I have, and for some reason I got it in my head that everyone should have a wooden 30-06 bolt action.

Any particular reason?

Since moving to NC I've been hunting on National Forest land almost exclusively, where most of my spots are several miles from the road; and on top of that it seems to be raining more often than not when I have the chance to go. So I usually opt for my Model 7 Stainless/Synthetic in 308. While back in WV for the holidays the last few weeks, I took those 2 rifles plus my 270, but again the weather was always nasty and the Model 7 got to go.

I have a 700 LVSF in a McMillan and it sees more duty for similar reasons.

yes I could have used a different pad ? but I had a rifle already sight`n in so I just went with that rifle. but next fall 2019 I will be using that 30-06 Winchester per 64 model 70 for deer in Minnesota tel I kill a decent buck either next fall or the next fall 2020 ? I had a lot of respect for that old deer slayer-world war 2 vet.

Many deer have fallen to my Remington 700 BDL 30/06. Numerous factory loads as well as handloaded 150gr Hornady Interlocks, Speer 150gr Hot-Cor flat base, Speer 150gr flatpoints loaded down, and Sierra 180gr Pro-Hunters. Never had a problem with any of the loads factory or home spun. The '06 just works.