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1 Garand and 1 turnbolt for High Power comp's, and 1 custom hunting rig for slaying dinner...still not boring
It's you and the bullet, and all the rest is secondary.
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I guess this will happen to the 6.5CM then. Endless Creedmoor articles have been happening for a while.
I wonder what the next big thing will be?
Of course it will....Eventually Everything has it's day in the sun. Shooters were just as excited at one time about the latest flintlock as baby boomers are about the '06 as the current generation of shooters is about the Creedmoor. Folks get upset about it but they may as well be shouting at the tide. What comes along next? Who knows. It's been said that nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. That's what makes predicting the next big thing usually little more than a guessing game. Widespread adoption of a new military round. Perhaps a new technology. Maybe a new shooting discipline catches on in popularity. Whatever it is, at the end of the day it's just a piece of brass. No need for people to lose sleep over different shapes of metal
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It may be just a piece of brass, but a segment of the board got worked up over it. Some still are. Until the 30 Blammer arrives and they will chase that butterfly.
I wonder how the Short and Super Short crowd are these days? Or the Lazzeronian Church? The Compact Magnum folks? There's a few left. I wish them well.
At least it keeps them out of the bars. π
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
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It may be just a piece of brass, but a segment of the board got worked up over it. Some still are. Until the 30 Blammer arrives and they will chase that butterfly.
I wonder how the Short and Super Short crowd are these days? Or the Lazzeronian Church? The Compact Magnum folks? There's a few left. I wish them well.
At least it keeps them out of the bars. π Mebbe shoulda gone one of those routes 'cause that's all that's left on the store shelves....
It's you and the bullet, and all the rest is secondary.
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My WSMs and WSSMs are working fine, thank you.
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To answer the OP's original question, maybe they just don't know any better. Paul B.
Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them. MOLON LABE
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When your performance becomes the standard for comparison, you become "boring."
The 30-06 is the baseline reference cartridge, plain and simple.
"Behavior accepted is behavior repeated."
"Strive to be underestimated."
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Because it's been around for over a century and just works, plain and simple.
My only full-power rifle is a .270 so I can't speak from personal experience, but the variety of .308 projectiles available, coupled with the insensitivity of manual actions to varying loads makes it far from boring in my eyes.
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Dont know about boring but I was just at Cabela's.
4 boxes of 30-06 on the shelf, Hornady Outfitter.
42.99 a box of 20.
That my friends is what will fuel a resurgence of reloaders in this country. Lord help you if you like to shoot in volume, have a Wby, and don't reload.... You have a wby and don't reload? Damn, it's because I bought a wby in the 90's that I started loading ammo. I got a hell of a good deal on a nice 300wby, but had no idea what wby ammo cost. Trust me, the reloading equipment was far less money. You must be a doctor or some such schidt... BSA they are a hell of a lot of different cartridges out there besides Weatherby that cost between 60-100 bucks a box. I suppose my being a minority has something to do with it but paying that kinda money for ammo makes one dumbass in my view. MB My Weatherby has never shot any factory ammo since I got it either. I find it easy to load for.
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the 30-06 just might be needed here in America ? again
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the 30-06 just might be needed here in America ? again Yeah, its needed every Fall in the hunting woods from what I see. Where have you been?
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I was one of the guilty ones. Boring, always something better. Only owned one a Browning Bar for a short period of time. Took it out to WY to coyote hunt with a buddy in January during a arctic cold front many years ago. My lack of experience with keeping that auto action properly lubricated for sub arctic conditions -20F caused me to be with a froze up rifle all day long. Not the cartridges fault. Fast forward to today. I just had a full blown custom rifle built, had a choice of any caliber, itβs a 30.06.
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