Thread: 25 Cal these days

I have had a 25-06 for a couple of years and love it... so would be really interested to see how these new wildcats go. Would be nice if there was a factory offering of them too. Does it look like these other .25 cals would require as long a barrel as the 25-06 for effective velocity?

Originally Posted by JoelA

I have had a 25-06 for a couple of years and love it... so would be really interested to see how these new wildcats go. Would be nice if there was a factory offering of them too. Does it look like these other .25 cals would require as long a barrel as the 25-06 for effective velocity?

25CM, 25GT and 25x47L aren't wild cats, they are very much factory produced brass, some ammo makers will start to look at them.
For the 130g+ projectiles it's generally recommended to have a 7.5 twist, most comp shooters are running 26" barrels.
These can produce upwards of 3000fps.

Heres a 6.5 06 that shoots 143 gr ELD-X's very tight- Just a 25.06 necked out to 6.5
No factory ammo available so need to reload for it

Originally Posted by Bos

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Heres a 6.5 06 that shoots 143 gr ELD-X's very tight- Just a 25.06 necked out to 6.5
No factory ammo available so need to reload for it

the 6.8/06 is much more common and with modern powders and sleak projectiles is doing rather well for itself....should really be called the 7mm-o6 as .277 is closer to 7mm than anything else afterall.