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

Yep that’s pretty much exactly what the .25-06 shooters always say, and they would be right. It’s got just enough more speed and just enough weight to deliver a noticeably faster “shock” killing outcome than some of the standard short actions running in the high mid-2000s. That’s assuming you put it in the right place of course...

Somewhere I’ve got an Excel spreadsheet with “terminal whack” graphed at 200yds for a whole bunch of cartridges up to the .308 / 165gr, and the .25-06 compares very well.

Bottom line is that it works, simply because it is able to throw a roughly 120gr bullet at the same amount of fps more than 3000 then most of the rest of them can manage below 3000. This is the difference between the parent cases of course.

But it’s not like it’s the only one that can do that. But it is interesting that as time has gone on the market seems to have settled on slightly less powerful short action derivatives, leaving the more powerful long action cartridges in similar calibres in the hands of the wildcatters or some of the very rare “magnum” 6.5s. I wonder why this is? It can’t be action length alone. I haven’t really thought about it before but I suppose there is just a sweet spot with short action cartridges throwing 100-140gr bullets between 2700-3000fps.

Oh well maybe I shall ponder that one as I go to sleep which is going to be in about three minutes...