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Your favorite cartridge based off .30-06?
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<blockquote data-quote="Swamplord" data-source="post: 2406926" data-attributes="member: 2460"><p>Outgrew the 30'06 short legs back in '88 when I got my first 300 Win Mag, then an 8mm Rem Mag .... sold the '06 to a friend & never looked back for many years ... picked up a used 30'06 beater Rem700 Sportsman, the plain Jane model ... dirt cheap for use as an action donor but haven't done anything on it yet, nor have I fired the '06, lol ! have a Rem 700 BDL in 308 Win that I shoot regularly to stay sharp</p><p></p><p>gotta say I killed a bunch of stuff in Alaska with one though, growing up off grid in an '06 family where everyone had their personal 30'06 rifle, had 6 of them in the house, lotsa great hunting memories with the '06, killed boatloads (limit was 7 per person) of Sitka blacktail deer on Kodiak Is. & on the Prince William Sound group of islands, bunch of billy goats & moose, black bear & wolves.. a few "no shooting" and "no parking" signs and even a couple brownies</p><p></p><p>maybe I'll pick one up to hunt with again someday .. who knows ?</p><p></p><p>friend of mine is a big 375 Whelen & AI nut, has both along with a 9.3 Gibbs that he uses at his brown bear bait hunting stands with total dominance over them overgrown rats</p><p></p><p>kinda like the looks of the 9.3 Gibbs, and I don't have anything in 9.3 yet... well huh ? I do have two 5 gal buckets full of mixed once fired 30'06 brass collected over the years, our stuff and range/gravel pit stuff</p><p></p><p>...[ATTACH=full]330995[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swamplord, post: 2406926, member: 2460"] Outgrew the 30'06 short legs back in '88 when I got my first 300 Win Mag, then an 8mm Rem Mag .... sold the '06 to a friend & never looked back for many years ... picked up a used 30'06 beater Rem700 Sportsman, the plain Jane model ... dirt cheap for use as an action donor but haven't done anything on it yet, nor have I fired the '06, lol ! have a Rem 700 BDL in 308 Win that I shoot regularly to stay sharp gotta say I killed a bunch of stuff in Alaska with one though, growing up off grid in an '06 family where everyone had their personal 30'06 rifle, had 6 of them in the house, lotsa great hunting memories with the '06, killed boatloads (limit was 7 per person) of Sitka blacktail deer on Kodiak Is. & on the Prince William Sound group of islands, bunch of billy goats & moose, black bear & wolves.. a few "no shooting" and "no parking" signs and even a couple brownies maybe I'll pick one up to hunt with again someday .. who knows ? friend of mine is a big 375 Whelen & AI nut, has both along with a 9.3 Gibbs that he uses at his brown bear bait hunting stands with total dominance over them overgrown rats kinda like the looks of the 9.3 Gibbs, and I don't have anything in 9.3 yet... well huh ? I do have two 5 gal buckets full of mixed once fired 30'06 brass collected over the years, our stuff and range/gravel pit stuff ...[ATTACH type="full" alt="E19AFED6-81B6-42AE-9D29-862A99A82655.jpeg"]330995[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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