Oct 12 2016 1by 3 bull over 600 hanging on a hook

Very nice. Which bullet do you run in yours?

We want to read more.....please elaborate.

That’s a lot of meat.

70gr. blitzking ??

115 Nosler Partition
Nosler Brass
Fed 210m primer
52gr Reloader 22
COAL 3.190

Bull was feeding in the willows surrounded by 2 cows and a calf. Took a minute to count points as it is thick.
Once I realized he was legal I had to wait for him to turn. About 5 minutes.
Most moose with that body size have a good size rack. He was old growing down.
Once broadside one shot behind the shoulder took out both lungs broke the far shoulder and he ever took a step.
The bad part is he dropped side ways face first into a skidder tire hole. I could not move him.
Had to gut him on his side which anyone who has done it can attest it sucks,
I've taken 2 moose with that load now.

Any one who says the 25-06 cant handle any thing but deer clearly needs to try. It is more than enough cartridge.

Good showing. Seems like great Bullets and good placement always win.

I agree. Big John Nosler invented one heck of a bullet. Or as my Dad says best big game bullet ever. Nothing comes close.

That's a good sized bull, I have never shot a 25-06 but have always thought is was a cool round.

You'd appreciate the 25-06 Gerry. Shoots fast, flat and hits hard with zero recoil. That quad pic is the first trip. Still had to go back for the front half chainsaw and ropes. It was a long day.

Wow - I enjoy the heck out of hunting with my 25-06, but have never shot anything bigger than a mule deer with it.

When I started telling people what a great deer cartridge it had been for me, I was amazed at the number of guys who told me that they routinely used their 25-06 rifles on elk & black bear.

I do have a pretty fair stash of those 115 gr Nosler Partitions on hand... Hmmm...

Congratulations!

Guy

The is a group of 25-06 hunters over at "Trapshooters.com" that have been shooting the Hornady .25 120gr HP for years taking about 30 Elk and many more Mule Deer. When Hornady discontinued the .257 120 gr hollow point 3 years ago they were able to scrounge up 1,000 bullets.

Nice bull!

I had a Remington 700 Classic 25-06. I traded it for a another Remington 700 Classic 280 Rem. Bought them both new. I got the 280 because I wanted something a little heavier. I wish I would've bought the 280 outright and kept the 25-06. That was back in my younger days when money was tight.

NYH1.

I have shot moose and elk with mine too. I also used a Nosler Partition.

Money's STILL tight!!! 😬

John Barsness recommended the 115 Partition for my 25 06. If John recommends it I take it as gospel.His experience speaks volumes.

Could only gather up a few ( boxes) of these. Very very good especially for larger animals. I’m a big partition fan but in the25/06 this Hornady 120 is better

Wow must be a heck of a bullet that Hornady. Too bad they are discontinued.

They’re hell on white tails. No experience with anything larger than that size game.

It is a great bullet. Damn you, Hornady!

Nice shootin, 7. Though I'm not a 25-06 fan(no logical reason?) I could like a 257 Roy with that same bullet. 😎

I respect the 257 Roy. I just wanted something that didn't have magnum attached to it. Truth be told I'd love a 25 284 for hunting.

.25-06 One of my three favorites.. Had several 257 Wea.. Quite a cartridge.. Still have a barrel for one.. Might find an action if I look hard.. But I do prefer the 25/06.. All I want to do with a .25 I can do with it !!

It is one of my three favorites also.

With a 260, 6.5x55 and 270 in the house it probably won't happen but I still think it is one of the very best deer guns you can get plus as you have shown it can handle bigger stuff too. A 115 or 120 gr Partition at 25-06 speeds is a great load to have, guys seem to love the 115 gr Ballistic Tip too for deer.

At three score years plus the 25-06 does about 90% of what a rifle needs to do for me. The 375 H&H takes care of the remaining 10%. I won't get rid of the others but if I was a complete pragmatist those two could handle it all. Okay maybe a fast 22, a rim-fire, and a shotgun or three but that's it, maybe.

I happen to have 400 of the 120gr hp Hornadys all from the same lot... I have a small number from a fifth box that I have used in several other rifles. I am a very fond of the 80gr TTSX and am building a 25-284 for that bullet. Would be willing to trade straight across for them as one unit...
art

I think the Jack Carter Bear Claws were as good as the Partition, and I like the Partition a lot. Just my opinion. Pretty much the same design. It kinda combined the Barnes and partition bullet.

I used exclusively for many years the older bonded Carter Bear Claw 30 CAL 200gr from my 300 Win mag. Extremely lethal on large game. Very effective bullets if your rifle liked them.

I wonder why no one has ever made a 130-class bullet for the 25s? It seems like that would give it a lot better favor in the longer-range crowd.

https://www.facebook.com/Chinchaga-Bullets-562517553921083/

I have a Ruger No. 1AH in 25-06. When I first got that rifle I tried to build a load with the trophy bonded bear claws and couldn't get 'em to shoot...at all...

I use the Hornady 120 interlocks for plinking and load the 120 NP for business. Dang those interlocks are accurate!

Todd

The largest bodied bull elk that I’ve ever seen was taken by a 25-06. One shot, just behind the shoulder, complete pass-through, elk went, maybe 60 yrds. Of course....it was a Barnes X! memtb

I bet the interlocks would have worked about as well on game as the PT’s.

You could very well be right. The Hornady Interlock is a excellent game bullet.

Those look interesting. They better be good at that price! I wonder what twist that you would have to have to stabilize that 173-grain .264?

I have wanted a 25-06 since about 1960 and never, even with 150+ rifles collected, traded, sold, etc. ever got one. I am now selling my remaining guns, except a very few and have sold 2 of my 3 P-64-70.Fwts, my fine P-64-.375H&H, a mate to the .300 H&H I still have and my cherry P-64 Fwt. 30-06, all in highend synthetics.

I have even joined the gun collectors of BC group to show/sell at their shows and am cleaning out parts, etc. as I can due to age and old injuries. However, I have a HVA 4100, steel BM, Wisner, Brown original Kevlar stock and it can use a replacement for it's 7mm tube.

I am considering having it barreled to .25-06 and maybe with a Kimber Montana tube one of my smiths has on hand. Could match my beloved light HVA .280Rem with it's skinny Krieger tube and excellent accuracy and give me a neat .25-06 without spending even more of my over-taxed pensions on a gun I really do not need......

115 Npts, would be my first choice in bullets and I have lots of RE-26 and Magpro, but, about out of the 30 lbs of RE-22 I bought in 1991. So, should work as well in a 25-06 as in my KMA 280AI and three other .280 Rems.

Does "rifle addiction" EVER stop?

I would guess those are Canadian prices so that would help you with your dollar being worth more than ours. I haven't tried any of them yet but would like to try the 160 gr in my 270 Win and whatever they come up with in 358. That 173 gr 6.5 mm would likely be way too long for our 1 in 8 260 and 6.5x55, I wonder if a 1 in 7 would stabilise it?

I agree completely, but I have about 500 .25 NPT's to use up! Heck, I'll probably start plinking with them too!

SNAP - if you do get a 25-06 rifle, I think you're going to enjoy the heck out of it!

BigSkyGuy - ya those 115 Nosler Partitions are amazingly accurate. I bought a bunch of 'em a few years ago on sale... Need to start using more of them. I've gotten all crazy for the blue-tip 115 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips from my 25-06 over the past few years. Dang they work well.

Guy

The .25 is one of my three favorites.. If I were hunting elk or moose seriously, I would probably opt for a bit bigger caliber, but this winter I am not serious about killing an elk, so the .25 is my first choice.. We will see how things turn out.. A wonderful caliber.. I have used it since its wildcat days..

With my son home from college Thanksgiving week, we were able to hunt together opening day, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Saturday evening my son shot his first doe at 345 yards and a second at 272 yards ( lasered afterward) with my 25-06. This was his first deer shooting a long-range.....he now thinks the 25-06 is the Holy Grail. Smart Kid...I think

For those inquiring minds, the bullets used were the Hornady 100 gr interlock in front of 51.0 of H-4350. Neither deer traveled more than 10 yards.

I have a McMillan-stocked Sako AV lefty in .25-06...it wears a Zeiss scope in Leupold rings. Only thing I wish it had was a 24" barrel (Sako uses 22.5" on their standard calibers). It's a great deer/antelope/pig killer with Barnes 100 grain factory TTSX. I guess the animals don't notice the slightly less velocity from the shorter tube. Probably the best candidate for a one-rifle dude.
Bob

It has often been said that the development of the Nosler Partition bullet was a primary reason for the success of the 25.06 in its use on big game. Super high velocities ask a lot from a bullet and the NP performs the same way virtually every time. This, and the Hornady Interlock Round Nose were my go-to loads when I was going through my 25.06 phase. The Hornady for deer sized game and the Partition on anything larger or when super close shots were possible. I've never had a NP act like a grenade up on ridiculously close shots at high velocity.

Here is mine. Tikka T3 Talley lows and a V X 3, 3.5-10-40MM

Although the 257 Weatherby is my favorite .25, I'll always have an affinity for the 25-06. I shot my biggest Whitetail buck with a 25-06 and also my made longest shot on a Whitetail with a 25-06. This of course was back in the day before you needed a .600 BC bullet to kill anything.

I would be interested to know what velocities other people are getting from Vortex Factory Ammo with the 100gn TTSX as the batch Barnes sent me chronographs at only 3090fps in my match grade 26 inch barrel where my 100gn handloads achieve 3400-3500fps. The Barnes Vortex loads are however extremely accurate in my rifle and shoot to same POI with everything else regardless of the lower velocity.
John

One of my cowboys down on the ranch shot his .25-06 at everything from coyotes to elk, and I never heard of any kills that weren't one shot. Of course, he carried that rifle every day, on horseback or in the pickup, and he shot a LOT of coyotes with it as well as other assorted "varmints". He used only factory ammo, except for a couple of years when we were field testing bullets made with various alloys of tungsten, tin and bismuth.

I have been shooting the 25 caliber for over 20 years now,its a great caliber, it is also the closest caliber to the accurate .264 or .26 caliber on all charts 25 caliber is .257 and the 26 caliber is .264 that difference is only 7 thousands I don`t think a animal will ever know the difference at any distance.in many magazines they brag about the new koolaid 6.5 creedmore,and yes its a good cartridge but its not going change the world of hunting with a rifle. I use a custom Ruger no.1 in a 257 weatherby mag,bonx 27 in barrel,built by a famous machinist who builds many 1,000 yard national guns and yes some have won national titles with his machinist work.i use a large niteforce scope,custom picatinny rail and rings,and with 100 grain swift a-frame at a speed of 3800 fps and a small moa off a good bench. no one is ever going to tell me the new koolaid will out shoot the 25 caliber out hunting deer.and you can bet the 25-06 shoots fast too !

That's good to know-thanks! I called Barnes about actual velocities in their Vortex TTSX factory and didn't get much of an answer. I would imagine, based on your data, that I have a hot .257 Roberts with my 22.5" barrel length.
Bob

I have a first year production Rem 700 ADL. I had it re-stocked in a maple stock and bedded the action. I also swapped the trigger out for a Canjar trigger. All done back in the 80's. That rifle has around 3500 rounds through it. First reloading I did for a centerfire was for that rifle. I found the 120 gr Speer BTSP very accurate with (I believe) 53 gr of IMR4831.
When I went on my very first elk hunt, that was the only 'big game' rifle I owned. So, that's what I elk hunted with. I couldn't get the partitions to be very accurate(best group was about 2") but was told a 'long' shot where we were hunting in NE Oregon was 100 yards. I hunted with 2nd and 3rd cousins up there and they all referred to it as a South Texas Rabbit gun. At the end of the hunt, there was ONE elk taken - mine. Hiking out at the end, a cousin made the comment that 'it's a shame when the 'locals' have to import someone from 2000 miles away just so they can have some elk steaks'.
The following year, I had purchased a Sako 7mag. I brought it and the 25-06 with the left-over 120 gr partitions from the previous year. When I got there, the cousin that was the leader of the group, told me to leave the 7 in the case. His statement was ' I KNOW you can shoot that 25 and I'll never make fun of a man that shoots like that!'.
I've been chasing the lands now for several years. Eventually, i'll give up the chase and screw another barrel on it. But until it quits shooting itty-bitty groups or I can no longer seat a bullet long enough to stay in the case, I'll keep shooting deer and whatever with it.

In 1980, I bought my first 25/06 in a Ruger 77. I read all that I could on the cartridge and everything said that it had to be a 24" bbl for the bullet to be effective. Because of the way I loved to hunt in those pre-lease days, which was carrying an old Amacker climbing stand as far away from everyone as I could, I traded a Rem 700 in 270 for a Ruger Ultra Light in a 270. As it was shorter and lighter, it made my hikes a lot easier. I always wanted a lighter 25/06 with a shorter bbl, and then I saw where Marlin made one. After doing a lot of research, I put down 300 for a new one and I have been very pleased with it as I have shot near 20 deer with the little thing.

My point is this...I don't have a chronograph, don't know how fast those cheap 120 gr. CL's are going. But from a practical standpoint, they kill just as effectively from a short barrel as from the longer bbl that the Ruger had on it. And since everyone now knows that the .25 caliber bullets are lacking in the BC dept. and can't be shot effectively at long distances, why worry about how long the bbl or how fast the bullet is traveling? Just grab your favorite hunting bullet in reloads or factory and go kill something with it, whether it is out of a long or short bbl.

Why is it so many here on the campfire call the .270 "Gay" along with other derogatory comments yet nary a bad word on the 25-06?

No idea. I really like the 270. But prefer the 25-06.

270 is just another fine bullet designed in America ,I have always like all bullet sizes they all kill deer. this new koolaid thing with the 6.5 creedmore I don`t understand, creedmore is no super cartridge. myself I have just always liked the 1/4 bullet or 25 caliber.the first 25 caliber cartridge I ever seen was a 257 Roberts and I own a couple of 257 Robert rifles in Ruger no.1`s both shoot excellent. I wished gun manufacture`s made it easier to buy order what caliber cartridge each person wants maybe some kind of a option for a $100.00 on just certain models that are the better rifle they produce ? a 25-284 would be neat rifle,i have a couple 6.5-284 and this cartridge will for sure out run all 6.5 creedmore`s,i bet 25-284 would too. just what I need another 25 caliber rifle 25-284 ? dang it that will be in my head now ,I would love a ruger no.1 in a 25-284 .

Maybe they a little Queer. The .270 win is one of the best and so is the 25/06. They belong in everyone's battery. The 25/06 Is underrated imo, I have killed bull elk nd bull moose with it and the Nosler partition. I have a pile of confidence in my ( 1970) model 700.