.25-06

[HonestJohn]

Don’t let anyone convince you that it is niche. Love mine but I also reload to cover the lack of available ammo variations…… 75g for foxes up to 117 for deer….. she is staying put. When the time comes she will get a barrrel!

What are you using now? Scaffolding pipe?

 

[cjm1066]

100g Barnes in 25/06 was a great combination for me.

 

[nocturnaldave]

What are you using now? Scaffolding pipe?

Nope…. Still got her original sako barrel.

 

[Shabz]

Anyone shooting 80gr ttsx in their .25-06? Particularly using N160?

 

[6.5-06 TIKKA]

Have you considered the 3p8, with 123gr Sako rounds that are flat shooting.
30-06 is where I'd go or 6.5x55

 

[JH83]

Great calibre, used one extensively over the years, but rebarreled to 6.5x55 as factory rounds were scarce. God knows what they are like now in non lead. Shame, it’s a really useful chambering, a 243 on steroids, enough poke for any deer and a brutal foxer. I did use 100g TTSX at one point and they were rather good.

 

[Oh6]

Anyone shooting 80gr ttsx in their .25-06? Particularly using N160?

Post in thread 'Barnes TTSX in 25-06'

Jul 19, 2018

Since posting this thread I have been using the Barnes TTSX 80grn almost exclusively in the 25-06 on roe. So impressed with these bullets cannot see me using anything else with it now due to the outstanding accuracy and the terminal performance.

I'm using them in a Sako 75 Stainless Synthetic that was shortened to 20" and recrowned and had some trigger work done, other than that bog standard factory. I'm using H4831sc in Federal brass and CCI large rifle primers.

Through the chrono the MV is averaging out at 3389fps with more space for upping the powder load if I wanted to but will not...

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[wildfowler.250]

7 months on and I still fancy one. Then I think, stick with the .270 because it does all the same stuff an a lot easier. Even wondered about the 7mm-08.

Probably if it ain’t broke but that’s no fun

 

[nocturnaldave]

Life is short. If you want one and buying it won’t cause you any serious financial pain then go get it. You will always wonder what it could have been! Lol

 

[enfieldspares]

Life is short. If you want one and buying it won’t cause you any serious financial pain then go get it. You will always wonder what it could have been! Lol

This! 110%. Since the age of twelve I'd always wanted a Boss. Not a Purdey, not a Holland nor an X, Y or but a Boss. I blame it on reading the poem "The Battle of the Guns".

"No gun but mine is worth a toss’ Thus spoke the valiant Mr Boss".

At age fifty-eight I bought one, scratched the itch, shot a couple of two hundred bird days and decided it killed no better and missed no less often than did my father's old Henry Clarke. So about five years later I sold it.

But as above quoted form NOCTURNALDAVE elsewise you'll always wonder what might have been. I've never regretted selling a gun as much as I've regretted not buying one.