Some of you are getting very impressive velocities. I rebarreled Ruger 77 mk ii with a Bartlein 26" #3 contour in 30-06 AI. Trued the action and bedded it in a Mcmillan fiberglass stock. Timney trigger. I found Winchester brass to have the greatest capacity by several grains. It is a little inconsistent and requires some sorting for absolute accuracy. Reloader 23 and Staball 6.5 will both push a 200 grain Berger hybrid target over 2800 fps with excellent accuracy. On my best days it's sub half moa. It is consistently sub moa the rest of the time. Faster than that and fliers increased. Started seeing pressure around 2850.
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I am really loving this 30-06 thread!
When I was a kid nearly every household, that had a deer hunter, had the old 30-06. So did I.
In my middle age years, they were pushed farther and farther back in the closet (not even worthy of the safe) to make room for the new fancy calibers that promised bigger, better, longer, stronger, shorter, faster and flatter trajectories with increased killing power that the American big game hunter absolutely fell in love with! So did I.
Today we are reading about the old 30-06. The old workhorse just sat in the back of the closet while we tinkered with the next great wonder cartridge...until we began thinking... "I wander what the old 30-06 cartridge would do if I loaded it with this new powder with that new bullet".... TA-DAAH!!!
From lighter bullets at screaming flat velocities to the new long heavies moving along at speeds not seen before out of this cartridge, this old 06 endured the test of time alone in the back of the closet and due to the advent of new powders and bullets...is now back on the front line as the most versatile cartridge ever developed.
I guess that's why most people come up with a common answer when asked, "If you could only have one rifle, which would it be?
That's my answer too.
Good Day Gentlemen!
When I was a kid nearly every household, that had a deer hunter, had the old 30-06. So did I.
In my middle age years, they were pushed farther and farther back in the closet (not even worthy of the safe) to make room for the new fancy calibers that promised bigger, better, longer, stronger, shorter, faster and flatter trajectories with increased killing power that the American big game hunter absolutely fell in love with! So did I.
Today we are reading about the old 30-06. The old workhorse just sat in the back of the closet while we tinkered with the next great wonder cartridge...until we began thinking... "I wander what the old 30-06 cartridge would do if I loaded it with this new powder with that new bullet".... TA-DAAH!!!
From lighter bullets at screaming flat velocities to the new long heavies moving along at speeds not seen before out of this cartridge, this old 06 endured the test of time alone in the back of the closet and due to the advent of new powders and bullets...is now back on the front line as the most versatile cartridge ever developed.
I guess that's why most people come up with a common answer when asked, "If you could only have one rifle, which would it be?
That's my answer too.
Good Day Gentlemen!
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While I have never had one it's performance is still outstanding even in this day and age
Its been the powder/component shortages that has had me thinking about the smaller, more efficient, and available cartridges that I already have rifles in. More shots per pound of powder that's more available is becoming more attractive to me than ultimate horsepower at this point.
Especially after seeing these speeds y'all are getting now I'm thinking of not replacing my 300WM that got stolen years ago and doing an '06 instead.
On that note, I've been wondering if anybody's seen a handy table or chart listing the different twists in 30 cal and what modern bullets work in them? That would be super handy while trying to decide on a twist for a project I'm dreaming up.
Especially after seeing these speeds y'all are getting now I'm thinking of not replacing my 300WM that got stolen years ago and doing an '06 instead.
On that note, I've been wondering if anybody's seen a handy table or chart listing the different twists in 30 cal and what modern bullets work in them? That would be super handy while trying to decide on a twist for a project I'm dreaming up.
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I saw that to. She still does not mount the rifle properly.
QuietTexan
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That's why I now have a very nice 22LR Rimfire ELR rig, and a 223 AI. More real trigger pulls for a lot lower cost, and the 22LR is a stone-cold bastard for giving honest feedback, there's no cheating in the wind with that thing.
9 twist or 10 twist should handle everything you'd want to shoot except the heaviest 230+gn long range bullets in a non-magnum. 11 twist was standard for a long time, but I haven't seen a drop off in accuracy from running 10s with 150s-220s.
If you want to shoot very light (125gn cup and core bullets) then 13, 15, even 18 twist is what you want, but that's for specialized benchrest rigs like 30BRs.
Lefty7mmstw
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you have a beenmoor but no 30-06... you NEED to change that right quick.
I'm on my 4th 30-06 at present. I've traded a couple good ones away and an average one over the years. This one (m700 lh lss) came to me around 7 years ago as a trade to a lgs that someone did a rather poor job of putting on the rings/ bases on. She also had a bit of stock warp. All in all she couldn't shoot well as she sat. I corrected the issues and it went to 1/2 to 3/4 moa with anything decent down its throat. I have a ss 280 mountain contour barrel ready to put on and chew out for 280ai but I can't bring myself to cut up a perfectly good 30-06.
RIP German.
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DOH!
Curious to see which powder will equal the RL17 in velocity/precision when pushing the 215s.
My original RL17 from the introductory year is dwindling fast...
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RL26 seemed to have some good velocities especially with longer barreled 06's. Honestly I was surprised/ happy/ impressed to see your velocities with RL17.
