Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Is 30-06 a dead round for you & if so why?

I love taking my 50 year old Winchester 70 to the dear woods. But more and more I'm seeing less and less of them carried by others. I for one have no immediate wishes nor plans to stop using my 30-06. The only other gun I carry from time to time is the tried & true 30-30. I know how these rounds shoot out of my guns and they do their assigned jobs perfectly. 99% of the time it's one-shot-one-kill. I love my cheap t/c compass in. 223 for fox, hog & coyotes. I guess I'm just stuck in my ways but it's a good kinda stuck. You know what I mean?

I mean if it ain't broke then why fix it? Just my 2¢

In my world the .30-06 is not now nor will it ever be a dead round. The fact that it's not at all scarce does not detract from it's incredible versatility.

keep taking it, it’s an excellent choice.

If you're seeing less and less of them, perhaps you've fallen in with the wrong crowd?

Lots of newer choices out there for gun writers, soft shoulders and women. They cam drown out the tried and true with magazine noise and hype.

I like it

It's an awesome round, but you do have lots of other choices that will do the job very well. It's only dead right now for most who don't reload for it or use it beyond the few rounds to sight in for a season. But that's true of most ammo by the looks of the shelves right now. As long as you have it to use it'll be around.

The 30-06 is like the great ol' USA, been great for so long that it's seriously under-appreciated. Just can't find much fault with mine.

If I could only have one, it would be a 30-06.

This could be true🤔

The '06 is one of the most common hunting calibers of all time for a reason - it works on everything. A guy with an '06 is armed for every big game animal in the lower 48 and most of rest of the world, too. Gun makers have to develop new calibers or their new gun market would dry up. Any decent gun will last 50 years or more with care. You can't make money selling each hunter only 1 gun. You have to convince him that he NEEDS something else. It's usually not true, but that's salesmanship.
For the record, this past hunting season I pulled the trigger on my '06 only twice, and brought home my deer and my elk.

I'm with on this👍👊

Only use I ever had for it was the parent case for .270, .338-06, & .35 Whelen.

Wouldn't mind a Springfield to slum it in.


Mike

I had never hunted with one until 2017 with a trip to Namibia. I took a factory FN Supreme 30-06 bought twenty years prior using the 168 gr TSX. A little heavier weight rifle than my norm but it worked just fine.

Nice, what's the average price for one of those hunts?

"Dead round"? Ha ha... You gots to be trolin....

Ir's always been a favorite of mine and I've owned and hunted with several over the years. The only fault it has is it won't fit in a Marlin 336 or Winchester 94.

Great cartridge, there are many better, but that does not make it a great cartridge.

Be satisfied.

I think it is and probably always will be the greatest caliber ever invented. There are other calibers with better balistics, but it's hard to beat the versatility of the 30.06 along with its manageable recoil for such a powerful weapon...My 15 year old son used his Tikka t3x lite 30.06 to take a muley buck and a cow elk this past season. I think he is hooked like I was after shooting my first elk with one almost 30 years ago...

Great cartridge, there are many better, but that does not make it a great cartridge.

Be satisfied.