Had some interesting results I thought I’d share when shooting today. After my yearly routine of talking to gobblers and never actually seeing them. I decided to hit up a good long range spot with some good rocks to shoot. I needed to confirm some drops on my 25-06. On a mountain shooting position with a tripod and bag, I gotta admit I got my ass kicked. I had a roughly 18x14 gleaming rock at 704 yards and with the speed of the 25-06 I had a hard time spotting shots well enough to correct. I’m sure in my 10 rounds I hit it and I could make out marks but never definitively saw the impact, even at the extended range.
I was turkey hunting with my contender with the .410 barrel on it but I also brought the .223 barrel with me. I decided to switch it out and try the same shot just for fun. I didn’t throw it in a calculator and just guessed and fired. With the lack of recoil impulse I saw exactly where I hit. Adjusted and smacked it on the second shot. Then hit 5/7 follow up shots with misses being close and windage misses. I proceeded to pick out rocks and quickly got on them at various ranges.
What is interesting is that my 25-06 is superior in every other category except recoil. It shoots smaller groups. It shoots a higher bc bullet. It’s shooting 500 fps faster. It’s not a high recoiling round. I don’t flinch with it at all, it’s mild. But in a somewhat real world setup without a spotter the lower recoiling break action absolutely crushed it on time it took to get on target and real world hit consistency. With the only advantage it had being extremely low recoil. I just found this an interesting application and real world example of what everyone has been saying.
121 hammers at 3200 fps in the 25-06
75 eldm at 2675 in the .223
18 inch .410 barrel for those curious
I was turkey hunting with my contender with the .410 barrel on it but I also brought the .223 barrel with me. I decided to switch it out and try the same shot just for fun. I didn’t throw it in a calculator and just guessed and fired. With the lack of recoil impulse I saw exactly where I hit. Adjusted and smacked it on the second shot. Then hit 5/7 follow up shots with misses being close and windage misses. I proceeded to pick out rocks and quickly got on them at various ranges.
What is interesting is that my 25-06 is superior in every other category except recoil. It shoots smaller groups. It shoots a higher bc bullet. It’s shooting 500 fps faster. It’s not a high recoiling round. I don’t flinch with it at all, it’s mild. But in a somewhat real world setup without a spotter the lower recoiling break action absolutely crushed it on time it took to get on target and real world hit consistency. With the only advantage it had being extremely low recoil. I just found this an interesting application and real world example of what everyone has been saying.
121 hammers at 3200 fps in the 25-06
75 eldm at 2675 in the .223
18 inch .410 barrel for those curious
