Thread: 25-06 why hasn't it achieved fame and success in New Zealand?

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
I am really surprised that this thread has gone on so long. I don't own a .25-06 and never have but here is my two pence worth anyway. I think that the basic problem for the .25-06 is that it doesn't do things much better than a lot of smaller cartridges like the .257 Roberts and not quite as well as larger cartridges like the 6.5 mm and .270. The standard 1 in 10" twist limits its projectiles to 120 grains and rightly or wrongly it has gained a reputation as a barrel burner. Some of the current crop of 6.5mm cartridges leave it for dead. It's that simple.
Regards Grandpamac.

Righto, give me some basis for your opinion, not something your wife heard from her hairdresser that heard it from a girl who's boyfriend heard it from a bloke who talked to a bloke who read it on the internet, posted by a guy who heard about it from a mate who once talked to a bloke who saw one once......

My basis for opinion is this: Over nearly 40 yrs I have shot animals with everything from 338 Lap down to .243 and most mainstream cartridges in between. (Except 30/06, somehow that never happened) I've had 7 25/06's in that time, only 2 of them did not stay long in my possession and that had nothing to do with their ability to kill stuff. Two of those 25's had their barrels shot out. Most of the cartridges (lets leave out the actual magnums) that I hear bla bla better than 25/06, I have used to actually kill stuff with - so I have direct experience to draw comparison with, not hearsay. The only real criteria I have, is that whatever I carry, it has to be able to kill cleanly with one shot, 25/06 has never failed me. Oddly neither has .243, my current goto for anything on legs. Maybe I'm just lucky.

I did love my 300 Weatherby though, that thing was dynamite on Tahr! I know where a 691 in 25/06 can be found if anybody had a hankering .