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Never owned or shot an -06.

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I have three. One is my Dad's Remington 742 (BDL) with a Weave 4x scope. One is the rifle he bought for me to hunt deer with, a Remington 742 carbine with a Weave 4x scope. The third I bought about 15 years ago, a Colt Light Rifle, which I put a Leupold 6x on. I've shot one animal with a .30-06 in the last 10 years, when I used my brother's Pre-war M70 to take a doe. I have rifles ranging from the .223 on up to the 8mm Mauser that are deer capable. Most are redundant, but I like having them around. I try to rotate which get used, so they at least seem to have a purpose. "Need" doesn't enter into the equation.....

Kaiser Norton

I have a 30-06 and always will. It’ll work on every game animal I’m ever going to shoot and thus its so versatile. This versitility also makes it the perfect backup rifle. It’s as close to the perfect cartridge for North America as you’re going to get.

VERY convincing. Might you share some particulars?

Thanks!...........

Back when I first started deer hunting, most folks in my area used .308, 30-30, or 30-06 . I guess it is a holdover for me that I use a 30-30 or 30-06 most of the time. I have two 30-06s and critters I shoot with it usually are DRT. No need to change for me.

The less you "know" or "do"...the "better" it is.

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I've used a number of .30/06 rifles over the years, and currently own two. One of them probably gets as much use as any other rifle I own, and has accounted for medium and big game numbered well into the triple figures, including goats, pigs, fallow, red and sambar deer. It seems to combine effectiveness on this range of game with moderate recoil, even in a light rifle. I've had long unbroken strings of one-shot kills with it - I think my best single day was 21 in a row, IIRC.

There again, there are other chamberings which will cover the same ground. A light, handy and accurate rifle in a chambering like 7x57 (I have one of those too) will do a similar job, as will several others I use or have used. Chambering is a fair way down the priority list IMHO: a decent bullet, good handling qualities and accuracy are rather more important.

For 99% of hunters/shooters it matters not a whit if their rifles/loads are capable of 1/2MOA accuracy or better at distances farther than two or three back yards. Keep that in mind when expounding on or decrying a particular rifle/load. Not all of American riflemen are cross-canyon mule deer shooters or bear/moose slayers in the Alaskan rain forest, or 1000 yard competitors- in fact very very few are. For those other folks, a generic factory .30-06 fed hohum factory ammo is still the Gold Standard, and no amount of proselytizing is likely to change that in the near future (well maybe the 6.5CM will due to the tons of ink slathered onto the glossy paper of the gun rags and the electrons sacrificed in its honor on these forums) . Certain Alaskan super-egoists notwithstanding.

I have 3 of these as well also two 338’s two 375’s two 9.3’s two 270’s two 308 win’s 35 Whelen and so on,( redundant I know.)
love the 30/06. Not the best at anything but solid,reliable performer.

The '06 sucks heavy ass,across the board and it's funnier than fhuqk...that Joe Average coddles same.

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That's all you have to say?? C'mon, break out of your shell!

This guy introduced the 30-06 to me when I was born, He was using a 30-06 and guiding elk hunters before most of the people on this board were born. I shot it first when I was nine and killed everything in Montana at least several times with one. The 30-06 was and has been the 6.5 of the 20th Century...

The '06 was certainly best,when that's all there was.

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Super uber cool. Thanks for sharing.

Jesus, the jaw on that guy could split oak- and make every girl in the county cross her legs. No wonder he used an '06!

A glass of water,would horn you up.

Congratulations?!?.......................

That pork chop your mom hung around your neck made you an angry man...

Laughin'....

Your mind numbing fhuqking STUPIDITY,never ain't not a hoot. Congratulations?!?

Mainly...because you are doing your "best".

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Eating meal worms and fighting the cat for his dead mouse has made a survivor out of you. When it is all said and done, I may be funny to you, but you will always be a dwarf wearing red ball sneakers and posing as a gun owner...

Why, thank you. Quite an observation from the out back of beyond where a spent hen salmon thrashing in the shallows is cause for y'all to stagger close while unzipping your Levi's....

I reckon you GOTTA "convince" yourself of SOMETHING. Who WASN'T toting an '06 or Turdy-Turdy in '47?!?

Bless your heart,you Retarded Fhuqk Stick.

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