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If I already own a .223, 30-06 and a 300 Win Mag, does it make any sense to add a 25-06. They say the older you get the wiser you get---Trust me it's easier to get older. | ||
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Yes a new rifle is always needed and you have a gap between .224 and .30. | |||
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You gotta be shittin' us. You're asking this bunch if you need another rifle? | |||
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Why does a new rifle need to make sense? I would say you need something between 223 and 30-06. What it is would be your choice. As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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Absolutely not. What you really NEED is a 22-250, a 243, a roberts, a 6.5-55, a 270, and a 280. If you do get a 25-06 there is a very remote possibility you might not get any of the aforementioned calibers. Borders on the unheard and the absurd. Not to mention, scares the hell out of the rest of us. Good luck on your decision. | |||
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Why shouldn't he get all those, AND the 25.06? | |||
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OK, you have a 22, and two 30 calibers.... I think I see room for a 25 - 26 caliber - it falls right between the 22 and 30 caliber guns. Then I also see room for a 35 caliber and maybe a 40 - 41 caliber rifle as well. You have a 30-06 and it will do everything from diggers to brown bear so need has nothing to do with it - you need balance.  Speer, Sierra, Lyman, Hornady, Hodgdon have reliable reloading data. You won't find it on so and so's web page. | |||
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Yes you need a 25-06, I have two, always could use another | |||
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IMO, the 25/06 is about the perfect deer rifle. Flat shooting, low recoil, all the power you ever need for deer. Get one, if you are deer hunting, I'll wager that your 300 and your 30-06 will become safe queens. | |||
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Not only YES, but you seem to have room for several other calibers. I got a .257 Roberts I love and won an ugly .25-06 as a door prize and have used the crap out of it. I also have acquired a .25 wssm, and have found the .270 sits at home most of anything else. In my accumulation I see need for a 6.5 somethingorother. | |||
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I may be biased cause the 25-06 was my first center fire purchased, 1974. It has accounted for numerous deer, about eight antelope, and a few coyotes. Its an excellent cartridge. NRA Patron member | |||
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My 25-06 had a medium target weight barrel, I was not keen on carrying it up the mountain. I used mine as a long range varmit gun. 100 grain Speer hollow points were pure hell on ground hogs. Jim "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson | |||
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No! I have not missed mine one bit since I sold it. | |||
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Are you out of your mind? One new rifle is the minimum you need. Check your gun safe and see how many empty slots you have and that's exactly how many new guns you need to fill it up. If it's already full, buy a new safe and get busy!!!!! Safari James USMC DRSS | |||
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FWIW, am presently having two 25-06 rifles rebarreled. My 98 mauser action rifle will become a 6mm Remington. The Marlin X will be a 7x57. Why? Well have had the barrels to be used for awhile now, trying to decide what to do with them. Don't hunt just shoot my rifles at range. Nothing wrong with a 25-06, just wanted a lighter recoiling cartridge that used less powder. Also, am a fan of the 7x57 cartridge and its siblings, the 6mm Remington and the 257Roberts. | |||
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OK-----So I sobered up and realized your right. I always need another rifle. By the way, I am not a gun nut but, I have 48 long guns. Now I have a .25-06 and we are on our honeymoon. I'll let you know how we get along. They say the older you get the wiser you get---Trust me it's easier to get older. | |||
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Acrtually the thing to do is to divest yourself of the 30-06 and the .300 Mag and get a 25-06 and a 7mm Rem Mag and a .375 H&H....then is when it gets hard to justify additional calibers! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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make it a 6.5-06...what every 25-06 and 270 really want to be   blaming guns for crime is like blaming silverware for rosie o'donnell being fat | |||
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Just don't buy a Canon safe. They refuse to honor their warranty. Pancho LTC, USA, RET "Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids." Clint Eastwood Give me Liberty or give me Corona. | |||
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I would highly recommend a 25-06. I have 2 30-06's, 270, 260, 243 and i always reach for the 25 when i go hunting. It is very accurate, light weight and has virtually no recoil. I would not leave home without one. You will be happy if you get one. In fact you may never carry your 06 or 300 again. | |||
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For everything up to 110grs I found that IMR-4831 or one of the 4350's did the job perfectly. Now if you plan on shooting 110 through 117gr bullets all you need is a keg of RL-22 and your set. I haven't loaded for a 25-06 yet that didn't like that powder. Even my 25-06 AI likes it, but not as much as it likes Ramshot Magnum. Mike / Tx | |||
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have you looked at the .260 rem. or the 6.5 creedmore | |||
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Absolutely! get that 25. And . when you get all those voids filled up and you don't think you need another rifles you can do like me and have at least 2or 3 of each caliber. and if you get tired of rifles there are always handguns. dave | |||
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I never thought I needed or wanted a 25-06 until a friend that runs a pawn shop basically gave me a Kimber in 25-06. Very easy on the shoulder and for this rifle, a tack driver. First handloads (random choice of recipes out of manual) with resized 30-06 brass yielded there .6-.8" groups at 100 yards. Can't wait to hunt with it this year. Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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+1  Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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Instead of a 25-06. I suggest a 250 Ackley Improved. Why have a factory caliber when you can have a wildcat? Or at least a feral cat. It can fit a medium length action, thereby saving a few ounces of weight and a few millimeters of bolt throw. In addition, you will do more shooting fire-forming cases, if you can find them. | |||
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Oops. I meant 257, not 250. | |||
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I have all of the 25cals, as do many other contributors here. i have a great load with my 257 AI, with a 100gr TSX bullet. my rifle is a Win XTR Feather in a laminate some one else had the work done on. Be the last one I ever sell.51gr of IMR 4350 and the TSX in 100gr puts it right in the bull at 300 yards, a beautiful thing. i have a real nice sako custom deluxe mid 70s rifle that is super pretty but I haven't found the great load yet for this piece. FS | |||
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