Range day, not too long ago with the often over looked Win Mod 70 .25-06 and handloads. I don’t think it really caught on, not like say a .243. Shoots flat and hits hard. If the .30-06 and .270 ever had a kid…
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Range day, not too long ago with the often over looked Win Mod 70 .25-06 and handloads. I don’t think it really caught on, not like say a .243. Shoots flat and hits hard. If the .30-06 and .270 ever had a kid…
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My deer rifle is a Sauer in .25-06, it's perfect for them!
Never had the chance to chase hogs, not many, if any where I live. Very surprised they haven’t crept back in through the Pecos water basin into NM.
Read an article about a hunt. A hunter took a shot at a boar with a .308, destroying its front shoulder. But not killing it. It charged him with 3 legs. A lot of stitches later..
As previously stated, shot placement.
Nah. You don't need a cannon just a good shot. I hear that all the time but you just...don't. My dad always used a .22. I shot one trotting toward me with my .270 and it flipped him over backwards. Might have been 150gr but I'm pretty sure it was 130gr as that's what my Savage Model 111 likes best.
Tell you what though, that SOB stunk to high heaven. I got home and walked in the front door. From across the house I hear my wife yell, "PEW!!!!” She made me go outside to change my clothes. I couldn't blame her though because I could hardly dress that joker he smelled so bad and I've dressed out a LOT of animals in my day. It was like make the skunks hold their nose kind of S-T-A-N-K! That's the best pork I ever ate though.
EDIT: If you want to hunt hogs come to Florida. They have become a nuisance of epic proportion. We have so many here the state is practically begging people to come hunt them. There is no age limit, size limit, sex limit, bag limit, no time (day or night) limit, you can bait them without a year around program.You can even shoot suckling piglets. Hell, there's not even a season limit. As long as you are on private property you can hunt them year around even at night with lights without so much as a hunting license EVEN IF YOU ARE FROM OUT OF STATE.
You guys have some monsters running around over there. I used to work for a company that was based in Gainesville. The CEO used to show me pictures of hogs he harvested.
I would think a deep penetrating low recoiling round like the 6mm ARC would be optimal for wild boar/pigs. They can be mean. When we were kids they would sometimes chase us and we'd seek shelter up a tree or something. Often, our parents would hear us yelling and open the gate as we came streaming in from the pigs chasing us. Some of them can grow some mighty big tusks, sometimes curving back.
Yes there are big'uns here but the biggest issue is just how many of them there are. Florida is one of 4 or 5 states that are infested to epidemic numbers. My friend in the hunt club got game camera pictures of herds so big you couldn't count them all. In some parts the forest floor looks like it was roto-tillered.
When I go out in suckling season (which is really the only time they are dangerous) I carry my 9mm with self defense rounds in my belt holster. 10+1 and even with quick shooting I figure that's all good. Plus I carry a spare clip too.
The 25-06 is a fine, light recoiling cartridge. I think a lot of people choose the .243 Winchester and .270 Winchester instead, but the .25-06 is a very capable, flat shooting cartridge.
I personally have long drooled over the .257 Weatherby and have kicked myself for passing up a Lazermark with oak leaf engraving in that caliber many times. It is like a death ray.
I've heard that they trash a lot of land. A friend that lives in Arizona goes out there just to hunt hogs. He persuaded me over a period of time to buy a .460 Mag. Thats what he used on Florida hogs. Being that I like wheel guns, I bought one. It'll shoot 3 different rounds, .460, .454 and .45 LC, an additional selling point. Unrealistic for where I live and extreme overkill as black bear medicine. But its a lot of fun to shoot and i'm ready incase there's ever a stampede in the neighborhood.
All great rounds. I still like my Rem. 700, in 250 Savage. 9x18x50 Pro Hunter.
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Made the stock chaps myself.
I like the .270 and it was my choice for most things. However, I had a .308 for a hog buster. At the distances hogs are shot it is fine and I could use heavier bullets to go through that hard gristle.
@outback that .257 Roberts is a fine choice and I like that rifle.
I love my Savage 111 .270. It's a great shooting gun and dead on accurate. This was my first shot at the range from 100yds. That's electrical tape on cardboard.
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We went to sight in the scope as it was a brand new gun with a brand new scope that was only bore sighted. We drove down and saw that shot and said...:shrug:...why would I change that?
On that 25-06, I know they are nothing alike but a gun and a round I also love are my Winchester Model 92 in 25-20. I had always wanted a lever action cowboy gun and a friend was selling it so I jumped...fast with both feet. As I say, I love it but I don't love the price or availability of the rounds. I sort of wish I had waited and bought a 32-20. But the 25-20 is a great shooting, low recoil round with plenty of umph.
Nice shooting! I’ve never thought about electrical tape, good idea. I got tired of buying targets and started using beer bottle caps. Never a shortage of those..
Cold bore shots @100. Off sandbags and rear squeeze bag. 64gn Berger FB Varmint over Varget and Lapua brass. Shot out of a Seekins Precision .223 Wylde, tuned gas block, LaRue rings and Vortex Razor Light Hunter.
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Said rifle. Impressed with their stuff, outstanding machine work, very clean. Runs circles around my LMT 7.62.
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Well since it is show and tell hour here are the 2 aforementioned rifles.
1 Winchester Model 92 25-20, made circa 1921 if I recall correctly
1 Savage Model 111 .270, no frills BSA 3-9 scope (sorry don't really know much about scopes. First one I ever had. I have always used iron sights) both bought new in 2010.
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Went to pick up some new stuff this morning.
A hatsan escort, for shooting practical shotgun courses and a pietta made Remington 1858 in .44.
Looking forward to getting them out, but it might be a wait for the pietta as it's near impossible to get percussion caps right now. Or primers for that matter.
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I have come to really appreciate a pistol grip on a shotgun and I bet you will come to like it too.
You fellas might like this.
I had a pile of some old furniture, some busted-up which made it's way from my Wife's Great-Aunt. Stuff is not expensive, but were wedding gifts in the early 20's.
Lamp was from Wife's great-Grandmother's family.
Nobody wanted it, of course.
One end table was too far gone, but this table needed diassembly and some glue/screws to make it solid again.
I took an old cherry tea table with a broken top and cut it down and modded it for a rifle display. Made certain it would fit a variety of rifles.
Some leather from an old cut-up strop for cushions.
Going home to my 'cave'. :D
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Zero'ed my .25-06 yesterday and longer shot dope. Afterwards w/ fundamentals and safety my daughter shot. She did quite respectable and grouped well at 100y. She loves to shot, first time shooting something larger than .22 LR.
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I've really enjoyed teaching my kids. They've all done well and have fallen in love with it. Relax and squeeze at the bottom of exhaling. The rest will fall into place.
finally got the black powder revolver out to the range to shoot. Man that was a tonne of fun. My ability to hit a target out at 25m was pretty shocking. But that's a practice issue.
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now comes the fun part with black powder - cleaning! Have fun!
Does anyone else think that this ammo shortage is a little fishy? I normally don't like conspiracy theories but. L......
Everything is a little fishy. JMO
Out to the range yesterday. First time in a few months and last time this year.
S&W M&P9 and my Sig Extreme in .45
Hopefully I will get out in the coming weeks, work is slow right now and the range is pretty quiet through the week.
Yeah. Gotta couple hundred junk 9s that I need to fire off in my hell cat. Got a better load for the brass, and more rounds to better brake this gun in. :rofl2:
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Gotta supply the illegal immigrants...right.!?
I feel for y'all, up there. But at least your surrounded by armed states. Why the good ol boys in Texas aren't pulling target practice all day, is what I don't get. It's down right unconstitutional, and treasonous acts against our nation. Just saying. It's our duty.