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The 06 is all I need now! Fine looking rifles, and I've mentioned a Kimber or Cooper recently, but no need. I'm a 62 years of nothing but blue steel and walnut, and 10glocks Supergrade in 06 is exactly what I'd buy if I ever buy a new one. Thats a rifle!
"The 30-06 is never a mistake"
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It was all I needed for two decades until I got on the Fire and discovered I needed other 20 rifles. These days I pretty much use my 270. Isn't that the Ph-ucking truth. When I joined the Fire, my only 30-06 was a Rem 710.
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Its what i started with and i never wouldve needed anything else
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Outgrew the '06 when I turned 18 and could buy my own guns, haven't wanted or needed one in over 30 years At 55 years of age, I thought I had also. Now, closing on 70 in a few months, depending on one's outlook I am either "up" to four or "down" to four. I/ve a Sauer 200, Blaser K95, Merkel 141 double, and my favorite for the last couple years....... Blaser R93 Stutzen, 30-06, with a side of 9.3 x 62 and what tickles me most is that I'm shooting 180 gr. Cor-lokts (that were given to me) out of all four! ya! GWB PS: BTW, a 20" barrel works fine on an '06 a couple @ +/- 175 paces
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Generations of hunters hunted their entire lifetime completely satisfied with the .30-06, never feeling the need or desire for anything else. Fast forward to current times with more disposable income than in the past and it's a completely different story. I'm happy with my .30-06 although I have a .35 Whelen, I can't think of any game in North America that those two rifles wouldn't handle.
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There's a big difference between "need" and want.. Just sayin. Absolute truth... Gotta be careful claiming to "need" just one round. Good way to lose one's Loony card... DF
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Outgrew the '06 when I turned 18 and could buy my own guns, haven't wanted or needed one in over 30 years At 55 years of age, I thought I had also. Now, closing on 70 in a few months, depending on one's outlook I am either "up" to four or "down" to four. I/ve a Sauer 200, Blaser K95, Merkel 141 double, and my favorite for the last couple years....... Blaser R93 Stutzen, 30-06, with a side of 9.3 x 62 and what tickles me most is that I'm shooting 180 gr. Cor-lokts (that were given to me) out of all four! ya! GWB PS: BTW, a 20" barrel works fine on an '06 a couple @ +/- 175 paces You have some of the nicest "toys"... DF
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Wouldn't work for me.
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For the last 100 years, there is an entire industry built on the idea that the '06 is lacking right? It's never been clearly explained just exactly what it lacks...but they keep trying, and I guess some of us keep buying the latest and greatest. And that's ok, we got the disposable income. I'm just as guilty as anyone, I have had romances with almost every military cartridge adopted since the late 1800's...with the glaring omission of the 5.56. After 55 years of experiments, nothing really stands out as superior to the '06 by any measure.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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[quote=EdM]Wouldn't work for me. S H A Z A M !! Andy Jerry
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Yep. Put a gun to my head and I could easily get by with just an '06. Wouldn't want to, but could.
.30-06's dominate in my accumulation of bolt guns - Springfields, Mausers, and Winchesters (mostly Springfields) - and get worked with quite a bit. From mouse fart light cast bullet loads through full snort jacketed loads and everything in between gets shoved through them; about as versatile a cartridge that a fella could want.
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And the eyes of a hawk to boot! Gdya blazer that is
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There's a big difference between "need" and want.. Just sayin. need is anything that you've wanted more than two weeks..... Saving this. Have to use it on my wife. Ha ha. Good one
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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It was all I needed for two decades until I got on the Fire and discovered I needed other 20 rifles. These days I pretty much use my 270. 20? You are slacking.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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[quote=EdM]Wouldn't work for me. S H A Z A M !! Andy Jerry A 200gr partition loaded to 2,800 in the ol 06 would knock the hell outa that beast.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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It’s the truth! She’s a purdy Win70 Classic Stainless Prove me wrong! Lol Personally, I prefer the .300 Whelen.
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I could get by with an 06, but I have 4 of them
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I with ya. If I sold all my rifles down to one, it'd be my Winchester M70 Super Grade in .30-06. When she was brand new... Very nice !!
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