I went to the range last night to check the zero on my 30/06. It's exactly 2" high at 100 yards. I'll be using 180 Winchester 'Power Point" ammunition. Sounds like minute of elk to me. Season starts next Saturday 10/14.

Rifle is Remington 700 LH. It's scoped with a 6x Leupold. I like it simple.

Should be dead on at 200yds.Good Luck on your hunt.

Sounds like a good set up. 6X is too much most of the time where I hunt. 4X works but I like a 2-7 in case the opportunity is presented to shoot out there a few hundred yards.

Excellent.

Am a huge believer in the 30-06 cartridge. In the past year it's given me black bear, antelope, mule deer, elk, wolf and grizzly.

You're likely well-set, riflewise, for a successful season.

Best of luck. Guy

Sound like elk medicine for sure. I really like the Power Point bullet. Took a few moose over the years with my 300 win before I started reloading ammo. Good luck on your hunt.

1st elk I ever shot was with a Remington 700 '06 and a 165gr partition. Played around with a lot of other combinations in the 20 years since but not sure I've found anything better yet.

Sounds like you are ready. Look forward to seeing pictures of what will hopefully be a successful hunt. Enjoy and good luck!

Yup, that's good. And the WW Power points are very underrated. They are excellent game bullets.

Didn't you know...the .30-06 is no longer capable of reliably killing elk.....

-Jake

Colorado bob: Best of luck to you this season!
I do fear for the worst for you though, as some on this site prognosticate that you are severely handicapping yourself by using the obsolete 30/06 cartridge and the Leupold scope which is incapable of holding zero!
Laughable, both of these contentions, that are held by a few ignoramuses on this site!
I own a pre-64 Model 70 in caliber 30/06 with a Leupold 3x9 variable scope on it - I used this Rifle to Hunt Elk, Blacktailed Deer, Mt. Goat, Mule Deer, Antelope, Blacktailed Deer and took it on my one and only Moose Hunt.
That Rifle and scope BOTH performed flawlessly for several decades for me - until I decided to retire them!
Once more best of luck to you this fall and prove the few "naysayers" hereabouts wrong again, PLEASE!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Good luck.. We may used an .30-06 Rem. and Leupold on antelope later this mth..

I haven't used my 06's on as much game as VarmitGuy, but my late wife and I used them on whitetails, antelope, black bear, moose, and elk.. I like rifles so we haven't used it much the last few years.. This fall maybe..

Agreed, Winchester Power Points are very very good in 180 grain in the 30.06

I've used this rifle & a Leupold Varx-III 2.5x8 for the past 40 + years. It's killed everything that I've shot at. Antelope, blk bear, elk , deer, moose, bighorn sheep, mtn goat, oryx, TX hogs and mtn lion. Killed them all with 180 grain bullets. Sometimes it's a handload with Hornady interlocks but most times it's either Core-lokts or Power-Points. I've settled on the Power-Point in the past few years. I updated the scope a few years ago with a newer Leupold, it's a little brighter for me. Bob

But not a Colorado Moose, mine neither.

Good Luck on your hunt. May you have success and make a memory or two. memtb

Oh hell yes, I'll agree with that..

I inherited a bunch of guns and reloading supplies from a cousin 3 or 4 years ago. There were about 1500 power point bullets in the deal (.270-150grain). So we started using them to shoot WT and also our big feral Russian boar. I suspect the large boars are tougher than or at least tough as elk, and the .270W weaker than the .30-06 with 180s. The Winchester power point has proved totally adequate and to my notion is the most consistently DRT load we shoot. I don't see any reason the .30-06 would not perform equally or probably better than our loading.

A 111 year-old cartridge, factory ammo, a wrong-handed rifle and a fixed-power scope is a sure recipe for failure.

Best of luck to you on your hunt.

Yep. Another reason I like them: they are surprisingly/exceptionally accurate in my rifles too....

Fuggin near everything works thru the '06!

I've never liked, particularily, the 150 load, but have been using it for the last 7 years for caribou on open tundra. Usual shot is 300-500 (my limit - not the gun's) Using Hornady Superperformance the last several years, over Remington Corelokt factory ammo, which I started with first. No real diff in accuracy (sub MOA), but considerable in trajectory at longer range. When I leave the Arctic for shorter range shooting, I'm going back to the 165 or 180s. Just cuz I like them better.

Ain't a whit worth of diff for killing...

L O L ! ! !

Pretty amazing what just a change in ammo can do. My 30-06 M98 is highly accurate (sub MOA) with what I've been using in it - factory Corelokts and lately, Hornady SST and GMX Superperformance (both) , all in 150 gr. All of them give me similar group sizes, the Hornadys marginally better than the Remington load.

The SSTs print a bit higher at 300 yards than the Corelokts. I don't remember how much - it's been a couple years and I lost that cell phone with the info on it. About 4 inches, anda bit to one side IIRC. Which I may not.

The GMX show a LOT of difference over the SST's at 300 yards however, which surprised me a bit. Yesterday I fired 5 rounds at 302 yards before the wind/storm hit, the first being an SST for base-line, then two, 2-shot groups with the GMX, with a scope calibrating adjustment between them. The first GMX duo put 2 holes in the paper, 3/4 inch apart center to center, 8 inches higher and 6 inches right of the SST. The second 2-shot "group" to check parameter of scope adjustment markings, printed 1/2" between hole centers.

Before I could go farther it started in with a wet snow and gusts, so I quit to keep the rifle dry. Have to go back in better weather and check-fire the scope changes I later made at home, based on the second GMX group to make sure of my POI. Just for grins, I'll try some factory Fed 180 Power-Shock loads I have on hand also. Can't have too much data....

The SST's have been working fine on caribou out to 433 yards so far at about the same range as did the Corelokts (pre rangefinder) , but I'm eager to see how the GMX perform.