25-06 for Mule Deer
#3
It's on ok cartridge (cailber is only the bullet size) for deer but I'd like something a little heavier if it were me. I look at the 25-06 as a good goat and coyote cartridge and is a great varmit getter.
Oh wait I forgot nothing matters but placement anymore. Go to sniper school and then use anything you want. I'm not sure why they even bothered to make different calibers and cartridges.
Oh wait I forgot nothing matters but placement anymore. Go to sniper school and then use anything you want. I'm not sure why they even bothered to make different calibers and cartridges.
#4
Or just get a bigger caliber and fling bullets at them without aiming? One or the other should work huh? Even if you have a larger caliber rifle you still need good shot placement.
The 25-06 is a great deer rifle cartridge. The reason they make different calibers of rifles is so we can buy more guns! I thought everyone knew that!!!
The 25-06 is a great deer rifle cartridge. The reason they make different calibers of rifles is so we can buy more guns! I thought everyone knew that!!!
#5
Seriously though I don't understand the beer commercial this subject has turned into.....Tastes great!!! Less filling!!! Shot placement is important but using the right cartridge is also important IMHO.
Yeah that's certainly my reasoning.
Last edited by rather_be_huntin; 09-21-2009 at 09:58 AM.
#7
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Van Buren AR
Posts: 43
sorry, 2nd rifle, but first rifle you can hunt deer. non resident what do you expect.
I have a 280 but it needs better glass and i don't have the funds right now to upgrade. May still take it haven't decided yet. thanks
I have a 280 but it needs better glass and i don't have the funds right now to upgrade. May still take it haven't decided yet. thanks
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kalispell, MT
Posts: 171
It's on ok cartridge (cailber is only the bullet size) for deer but I'd like something a little heavier if it were me. I look at the 25-06 as a good goat and coyote cartridge and is a great varmit getter.
Oh wait I forgot nothing matters but placement anymore. Go to sniper school and then use anything you want. I'm not sure why they even bothered to make different calibers and cartridges.
Oh wait I forgot nothing matters but placement anymore. Go to sniper school and then use anything you want. I'm not sure why they even bothered to make different calibers and cartridges.
Sorry, was more interested in answering the question than worrying about pedantic semantics...
My intended response was that a 25-06 is more than sufficient for deer sized game...loaded with 110 gr. accubonds, it has enough energy at 400 yards to cleanly make a kill (as defined as 3X the impact energy in foot pounds as the average mule deer weight) thus making it (in most within the general hunting worlds opinion) an ehtical, useful, and worthwhile cartridge for deer sized game...
is that more specific so as to not trip your sniper trigger?