Don't get a 30-06

[thinhorn_AK]

Completely understand your stance. I felt the same way most of my life.

I’ve only come to my conclusion from hands on shooting and hunting with different cartridges side by side. I can only speak for myself but I’ve never failed to kill an animal because I couldn’t spot my shot.

It might be worth adding that I only shoot suppressed regardless of cartridge. Still though, coming from 375HH and 300wm, the 30-06 just dosent feel that stiff to me and it works great on moose, goats etc. if I’m looking for blacktail or black bear I’ll take my 6.5 though.

 

[Scoutfan]

Not spotting my shot hasn't cost me an animal either-- but I did almost shoot a second elk when I didn't see impact of the first shot

 

[Hardly_Hangin]

For all you guys complaining about the recoil of a 30-06…..lol at you.

Guilty as charged.

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[Lawnboi]

I hope guys don’t take this personal, because I actually have a custom 3006 that I do shoot a bit, even shot an nrl match with it. Iv actually never even shot anything with it because I always end up with my sub cal tikkas.

I have never seen someone shoot a 3006 and been impressed personally. I’m sure they are out there but everyone I know who hunts with a 3006 is a two boxes a year kind of person.

I don’t mind mine with a suppressor on it

 

[Choupique]

everyone I know who hunts with a 3006 is a two boxes a year kind of person.

For my social circles its more like 5 or 6 shots a year total. And thats fine for the average eastern hunter who might shoot a deer over 200 yards once a decade.

Thats why a lot of new guys dont understand the recoil argument around here. Being a 6+ MOA shooter in the field has served them mostly well enough. Us eastern folk view recoil on a pain scale, not an effect on hit rates scale.

 

[Hardly_Hangin]

Mine broke me when i shot it 3 times braked without earpro, then the next day shooting it 21 times in a row prone on a concrete driveway.

 

[TaperPin]

I always wonder to myself when guys say they shot so much worse with something like the 30-06. What is the difference in MOA? A 500 yard shot takes 2 MOA - with a bipod and bag are there a lot of guys who can’t shoot an accurate fairly heavy sporter 30-06 2 MOA? Really?

 

[Lawnboi]

I always wonder to myself when guys say they shot so much worse with something like the 30-06. What is the difference in MOA? A 500 yard shot takes 2 MOA - with a bipod and bag are there a lot of guys who can’t shoot an accurate fairly heavy sporter 30-06 2 MOA? Really?

I’d walk away with a boat load of money if I bet everyone with a 3006 that they could cold bore a 500 yd 2moa circle before season every year.

Just an observation, that maybe isn’t totally the cartridge but the people who are still shooting them.

Fwiw I’d have zero issue cold bore hitting a 10” target at 500 in decent conditions with my 3006, but mine isn’t like most. And I shoot a boat load of smaller stuff.

 

[Scoutfan]

I’d walk away with a boat load of money if I bet everyone with a 3006 that they could cold bore a 500 yd 2moa circle before season every year.

Just an observation, that maybe isn’t totally the cartridge but the people who are still shooting them.

Fwiw I’d have zero issue cold bore hitting a 10” target at 500 in decent conditions with my 3006, but mine isn’t like most. And I shoot a boat load of smaller stuff.

Challenge excepted! - But I shoot 30/06 a lot and have been for at least a year or two. My ultralight is not really fun to shoot but my bench gun is a different story!

 

[Choupique]

with a bipod and bag are there a lot of guys who can’t shoot an accurate fairly heavy sporter 30-06 2 MOA? Really?

Correct. I bet 5 MOA is a stretch for a the majority of hunters.

 

[butcherboy]

I feel the same way about my 270 Winchester and my Browning 270wsm. The wsm is my go to rifle for everything. I’ll be putting a new chassis on my old scratched up 270 and a new scope for my kids to use. My 14 yr old son used my wsm no problem and my daughter uses the 270.

 

[Scoutfan]

Sometimes I think the real question is how many hunters can hold a 2moa group at 500 yards with any caliber. I am sure there are several people on here that can but the majority of hunters probably don't fire more than 10 shots a year through their hunting rifle and most of them have never even tried to shoot that far.

I remember my first longish range shot on a whitetail. My buddy couldn't believe I hit him and through the heart. I went back quite a while later after I had bought a new fangled range finder.
The distance was 378 yards. That was a poke with a 30/06 back in the day!

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I’d walk away with a boat load of money if I bet everyone with a 3006 that they could cold bore a 500 yd 2moa circle before season every year.

Just an observation, that maybe isn’t totally the cartridge but the people who are still shooting them.

Fwiw I’d have zero issue cold bore hitting a 10” target at 500 in decent conditions with my 3006, but mine isn’t like most. And I shoot a boat load of smaller stuff.

This is hilarious. “The people still shooting them” as if rokslide is representative in any way of the shooting and hunting community.

 

[Lawnboi]

This is hilarious. “The people still shooting them” as if rokslide is representative in any way of the shooting and hunting community.

You’re probably similar to me, I do shoot mine. I’m commenting on the hunting community I see at the range 2 weeks before season every year.

 

[LeftyWilbury]

i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be arguing for or against here. my first rifle was a savage 110 in 30-06 because the 30-06 just does everything... it was ugly, heavy, and accurate. my best shooting was putting one through the heart of a deer at 100 yards and when it ran, putting the second shot 1" from the first. turns out when you own one rifle, you learn how to shoot it....

but i'm a boy and like toys so i went 7RM and then down to 308, then down to .243. it doesn't really matter what rifle you're shooting. just go shoot it.

can't complain about that 6.5x55 though, might be my scandinavian roots, it's just like, a great goddamn cartridge

 

[Choupique]

can't complain about that 6.5x55 though, might be my scandinavian roots

If we hadn't been slaves to .473 bolt faces and everything needing to be 3.340" or 2.8" (definitely CANNOT be in between) the swede would likely have dominated in the US like it did in Europe.

Its funny how here in 2025 companies are touting their new fangled fast twist 6.5's that do exactly what the swede was doing in the late 1800's, flinging 156gr 6.5 bullets out of 1:7 twist barrels. We had smokeless powder centerfire rifles pretty much perfected within 50 years of metallic cartridges becoming mainstream and here we are in 2025 selling sexy new rifles by the gazillion that do literally the exact same thing. Before long we'll have cock on close CRF rifles again!

 

[thinhorn_AK]

i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be arguing for or against here. my first rifle was a savage 110 in 30-06 because the 30-06 just does everything... it was ugly, heavy, and accurate. my best shooting was putting one through the heart of a deer at 100 yards and when it ran, putting the second shot 1" from the first. turns out when you own one rifle, you learn how to shoot it....

but i'm a boy and like toys so i went 7RM and then down to 308, then down to .243. it doesn't really matter what rifle you're shooting. just go shoot it.

can't complain about that 6.5x55 though, might be my scandinavian roots, it's just like, a great goddamn cartridge

Same here. I think I’m pretty much arguing with myself. I like smaller cartridges and I still like to shoot my 30-06.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

You’re probably similar to me, I do shoot mine. I’m commenting on the hunting community I see at the range 2 weeks before season every year.

Yeah those guys are everywhere. I see guys patterning their shotguns the day before Goode opens, when moose season is getting near, the range is packed. I don’t shoot as much as some guys but I shoot enough to not be zeroing in at 100 the day before the season opens.

 

[MallardSX2]

but I shoot enough to not be zeroing in at 100 the day before the season opens.

 

[jmez]

I just bought one for my 14 year old for Christmas. All he wanted. We talked about other calibers, he wanted an 06. I don't know why, the likes the older stuff. Had a SxS shotgun too.

I borrowed longer and made him shoot it this summer. Still wanted one. This one has a brake so will tame it down some. He said I can shoot everything with it, hard to argue that.

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