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Originally posted by dpcd:
Comparing a 150 grain M2 Ball Cartridge to a 150 grain 30-06 is like comparing apples to tomatoes. Not the same thing in any way.

He was comparing bullet weights, not bullet type. Or cartridges.

All three of my usual hunting partners shoot 30-06 rifles with various projectiles.
Traditionalists, and decent shots.
And two of them bring 30-30s for backup guns.

MY family used only Win mod 54 carbines in the day and WW1 and 2, ammo was not to be had but dad had an in with Ft, Bliss TX and we got all the milsurp stuff we wanted.. WE shot a lot of deer on both of our owned and leased Mexico ranches with that stuff, if it tumbled it was deadly but it didn't always tumble and it improved our tracking skills to no end!! Not good stuff at all IMO..We filed the jacket noses off to lead and if it expanded it worked a tad better at a 25% chance of expanding, by this time we could track a wounded deer by the shadow he left on a rock!!

don't have one, but load my friend's Tikka 30-06 to 2,745 fps w/180 gr Sciroccos and H4350. Can't imagine it not being able to take any non-dangerous game out there up to 500-600 yards.

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Originally posted by eny:

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I didn't say it didn't work; just that everyone else in the camp will have one.

Used to be, but now everyone I run into has 6.5 Creedmoor, and it shoots farther than an 06

Au contraire. Berger bullets work in a 30-06 just as well. And no, you dont need a custom rifle with a faster twist. 1-10 works fine for some pretty sleek bullets.

https://bergerbullets.com/prod.../?caliber=30-caliber

Dont buy the man bun hype.

Killed more game with the 06 than all others combined. J.C. Higgins Model 50, restocked, busted wrist, repaired with dowels and still shoots ½" groups. Cor-Lokt 165s over Accurate 2520 for about 2700 fps. Pull trigger, death ensues . . . quickly!

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Originally posted by crbutler:
The .30-06 works well...

It’s perfect unless you’re an individualistic gun nut who wants something the other guys don’t have.

I bought my first centerfire rifle, a .30-06, when I started deer and elk hunting in the late "60s. For most of the next 10 years that rifle easily kept my freezer full of deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope meat.

Then my hunting partner gave me a .30 Gibbs case. I thought that case looked so cool than I carried it in my pocket for several months until I had a gunsmith re-chamber my boring, but kills everything, .30-06 to .30 Gibbs. Then for the next 20+ years that .30 Gibbs kept my freezers full of elk, moose, caribou, and even mountain goat meat, and put many of those critters on my trophy room walls.