Ray, your wife has one very pretty and sharp 06 there. Love those short barreled carbines, and the wood is absolutely superb.
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Nothing like the 30-06, here are 3 of mine, missing "Old Meat In The Pot" in the third slot. I hope to get it back some day, but until then these will do and they do kill elk, deer and anything else you point them at...
I have had a Parker Hale, Winchester Pre64, and Browning Safari. Here is the one I will keep forever, a 98 Mauser. My first attempt at stocking anything. It started out as a roll-over stock cheek piece. I followed Francis Sell's advice and just worked on the stock til it came up just right. My favorite hunting gun.
Fellow 'Fire Folks; Thanks all for the views at your respective '06's, it's cool to see the diversity of the rifles here.
While I don't appear to have any scanned in photos of the rifle alone, here's a photo from '93 I believe with a BBR that I'd bought new in '81.
If it doesn't look "right" to an observant Browning aficionado, that's because I'd bobbed 3" off the barrel, bead blasted and rust blued the barreled action and then reshaped the stock to fit me as well as adding wrap around checkering on the fore end.
It was a bit of a heavy beast to pack around and that's why I eventually sold it to a skookum young man who I'd lent it to for a hunting season.
He needed a trained rifle anyway and that particular '06 was that and more. I believe I had a string of 18 one shot kills on whitetail and mulie bucks with that thing, as well as one black bear and a California Bighorn ram.
It's in good hands now though and he's killed at least one mulie and whitetail buck each with it - so it still works just fine.
My current '06 is still only a VZ24 action c/w a FN military barrel I screwed onto it late last fall. I've got to get it into a tester mule stock to see if it shoots sometime soon.
Thanks again for sharing the photos gentlemen. All the best to you all in the upcoming week.
This Husqvarna 30/06 is new to me and I haven't even shot it yet. I believe that it will be come a favorite though. It is slick as glass and handles like a dream. Hopefully this afternoon I'll get some range time with it.
I too just acquired a 1640 in .30-06. Nice, light, and slick. Trouble is, I also just got the 1640 mannlicher I posted on page 4 of this thread. They are both vying for my attention. Right now, the mannlicher version is the flavor dejour.
This thread is making me want to push all my other rifles to the back of the safe and focus more on just the 'ol 30-06. Really, if a fella could shoot it & shoot it very well; it's all you need for any animal on this continent.
Am I right?
Indeed. Most of the cartridges that have come out since are just trying to reinvent the wheel.
M98, Timney FW. Mk II safety, fitted the stock and bedded it myself...Had it longer than any rifle 'cept my 10-22, boughter her as sporterized by Century Arms in 1994 when I was 19. The first deer rifle that I could rightly call "mine".
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I don't always shoot Mausers, but when I do...I prefer VZ-24s.