Thread: 30-06

Originally Posted by Brad S

Are there no haters of the 30-06? This is a very unusually one sided discussion
Need some gun city salespeople to come in and disagree with everyone

just wait till the 30 06 creedmore comes out.......It will be 50fps faster but so much better

Been smoking reds and fallow with 125 gr sst since ages ago thirty O Six is the bees knees

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Surely rifle for rifle 300 WSM are easier to get to shoot well ?
And isn’t it 200 f/s faster ?
Or are most WSM hunters chopping down to 20” ?

Originally Posted by Brad S

Are there no haters of the 30-06? This is a very unusually one sided discussion
Need some gun city salespeople to come in and disagree with everyone

What’s there to hate it just plain works.

Originally Posted by blip

just wait till the 30 06 creedmore comes out.......It will be 50fps faster but so much better

Problem is being a "trans" calibre you would need to know what pronoun to use before you were allowed to buy one.

Originally Posted by Mooseman

What’s there to hate it just plain works.

There's two in my safe at the moment.
Both sakos.
One is going really(85 finlight) well and the other is an old finbear with the old pecar 4x scope.
I will stick something decent on it and make sure it's going to shoot well as it's going to my son as a family heirloom .
Pretty cool chambering I reckon!

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Had one when I was a teenager. Ran 220gr round nose Norma ammo in it. Never found much to put them in.(late 80s)

I've been around 30-06's my whole life, dad had an old Van Hoffman 3006, i shot a bit, kicked like a mule, sure sacked deer,
Up here in northern Canada, it has to be the most poplar rifle for hunting, literally everyone has one, if not a 3006, a 300 win mag, was in the local sports store yesterday, i noticed 3 rows of 3006, more than everything else, up here in Moose and bear country, it a seriously good general purpose Cal, with a huge variety of factory bullet choices.

Nephew bought one as his first rifle last year, took him to the range to get it sighted in within an hour was ringing gongs at 750yds with plain old FMJ's was very impressed with both the cartridge and his shooting that day as it was the first time he had ever fired it.

Too much recoil for me though.

I started using barnes 150gr ttsx last year with ar2209in my 30-06. Shots really well i can have 3 bullets touching 100m, kills big stags good to.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Too much recoil for me though.

suppressors have really been a game changer for the longer cartridges..that and decent recoil pads LOL

Greetings,
Some tend to forget that the more established cartridges do not become less effective when some new and often over hyped upstart arrives on the scene. If anything they become better with upgraded rifles and better quality and improved components. There has been an absolute glut of new cartridges over the last 20 years many of which have been and gone creating barely a ripple. The 8x57 and its later US knock off the .30-06 are still chambered, although perhaps not as much, and will be with us for decades to come. Some calibres like the .25's have currently taken a hit. Perhaps a short .25 that would fit nicely in a shorter action for a nice light walking about rifle would be nice. Hang on we had that back in 1915, the .250 Savage. Over the next hundred years the case was improved and the projectile fattened up a bit and morphed into, you guessed it, the 6.5 Creedmoor. Nothing that much new in cartridges then.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS, @blip we already had the .30-06 AI. As you said 50 fps faster when loaded to the same pressure as the parent cartridge but it looked cool and much was claimed for it. Dead as the Dodo now.

Anyone got a R93 3006 barrel they would part with?

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Anyone got a R93 3006 barrel they would part with?

@7mmwsm
I think Hugh Bradley makes aftermarket R93 barrels if that helps. Don't know about cost but quality should be good.
Have you tried finding one for sale on any of the overseas websites ?

There was an interesting comment from @No.3 that the 3006 won't do anything the 7mm08 won't do. In fact, the 165gr 30-06 is almost the ballistic twin of the 140gr 7mm08 ! Just 20% more bullet weight and kinetic energy.

Here are some figures for factory ammo.
With the Sako ammunition, I had to compare two different shape bullets and with the Winchester their 3006 was actually 168gr.
The Winchester Ballistic Silvertip numbers give the clearest comparison and the bullet is the same as the Nosler Ballistic tip we all love.

So, it seems true that the trajectory of the 165gr 3006 is pretty much the same azs for the 140gr 7mm08. Same drops, same wind drift.
Its only when it reaches the deer that you'd expect to see a difference.