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I just read on the internet an article comparing the 25-05 vs 270 Winchester vs 6.5 Creedmoor. I’m saddened to learn my beloved 25-06 is an obsolete cartridge! Wonder if it still can harvest Desert Bighorns, Mule and Coues Deer plus Pronghorns like it once did?

That sucks. I just bought a 25-06 about 5 months ago. No wonder I got such a good deal on it!!! Do I just throw the rifle away, or what?

Oh no,I better get rid of this XTR FWT

sad and kinda true i have the same problem with my 257 Roberts rifles but heck if you like your 25-06 buy enough components to use for your life time maybe more for you can pass this fine cartridge down to a family member. i have loaded about 30 boxes of 257 Roberts for my family`s future to use my 257 Roberts rifles i gave them. so do as you can if 25-06 is your favorite use it to heck with these black rifles and new type cartridges your cartridge can and will kill deer as good and maybe better than these new ugly black rifles. Pete53

.25-06 is good- - - - -6.5-06 is better, and there's a lot more choice of bullet weights and designs in .264 to pick from. I'm in the process of building myself another, since I traded off the one I used for 20-something years.

If I cared about what other shooters thought of my guns, I would have spent more time trading guns than hunting.

The rifles have performed well for me on everything from rabbits to ele and Cape Buff and they will be passed on to my family when I pass.
My Parker shotguns have also earned a place with my family. Same goes for my S&W hand guns.

chit like that statement is why so many people are tired of hearing / reading about the 6.5 creedmoor...

He didn't even mention the Creedmoor, except that it was compared to the 270 and 25-06. Why get so mad about it?? You guys that get your panties in a wad, may need to try one. You might be enlightened a little.

I've got three custom 260s I don't see the need for a creedmoor..

I'm not the least bit mad but everything today is just about a creedmoor creedmoor and creedmoor...

I guess I should not at all so have a 25-06 I like it also various reasons and various loads

The 25-06 and 257wby still excel at flinging .400bc 100 grainers at high velocity with modest recoil. Still a useful tool for many.

Exactly

Yeah, they are fun like that.

the first centerfire rifle i ever shot (13? yrs old) was a 257wby Mark V custom (Sauer & Sons?)... punching out door locks in car body's on the scrap pile at 100+... great fun for a kid, and recoil was tolerable... i've inherited the leftover brass, dies and bullets... if i run across the "Right" 257 or 25-06, i'm buying it!...

On my list to get one for many years but so far haven't got one. but if they are obsolete maybe I'll get a deal.

Just did an Internet search, and apparently neither Remington or Ruger chamber the .25-06 in their bolt rifles anymore--which may be the reason for that statement.

But other companies still do, including Savage and Winchester.....

For you, probably no need for a Creedmoor. However, there does appear to be a want for that general category of ballistics. For others with that same want, but who don't have the same inclination/funds/time to get custom rifles, the Creedmoor provides a very practical easy button.

See Bob Milek on the .25-'06 including some discussion here from last year and last year is not very far gone. For better or worse I have an impression such writing/video as filters through today tends to be trying too hard to be current and gives up timeless. Hornady covered the .25-'06 in Podcast Episode 207 last week with perfectly competent names but nobody I've followed for years.

Pretty sure mine still works.
Probably will in 200 years too.

Someone was at my shop this morning telling me of some article he's just read saying the 30-06 was obsolete. We both had a good laugh.
1st that anyone could be so stupid as to write that. More..........that any people could be even stupider then the author and actually believe him.

What exactly makes a cartridge obsolete? Are game animals any tougher now? Do bullets suddenly bounce off them?

Steve,

During my Internet search the .30-06 was still listed in ALL the centerfire rifles of the major American rifle companies. (Would be willing to bet that's true of the major rifle companies in Europe too....)