Forum | My ,25-06

Whatchu talkin' bout Willis?  Jack O' Conner wrote reams about the .270!  I don't recall a single article about the .257 Roberts or the .243…

The .30-30 is a great round east of the Mississippi, but the only guys out west that I see with .30-30 rifles are using them as saddle guns or they keep them behind the seat of the pickup and shoot deer/coyotes and the occasional elk from the ditch…

MY .25-06 is similar to others that I've seen.  With a 26 inch barrel, the overall length of the gun is almost four feet, and the weight with sling, scope, and mounts is pushing on 12 pounds.  It's a great rifle, but it's no featherweight!

Is one deer killing machine!  Ever since I built the rifle from an old WW1 Mauser action, I'd been itching to shoot a deer or two with it.  And this year, I finally got a chance to find out how well it works.

Well sir, I've now taken two deer with it and the total distance from point of impact to where I picked the deer up is a grand total of 0 feet!  Both deer have given up faster than the French Army and dropped in their tracks.  I'm impressed as all heck with this rifle.

And the nice thing is, being a .25-06 shooting a 120 grain bullet, the recoil is so mild that I've watched the deer fall.

If you're looking for a flat-shooting caliber that appears to be highly accurate, easy to shoot and pure death on deer, look no further than the .25-06 caliber…