Thread: 25-06

Try Barnes Vortex with all copper TTSX bullets. Just remember that with an all copper bullet, you generally drop down once size in weight from what you normally shoot.

I can vouch for the barnes bullets, been using them for years.
Perfect expansion.
Be careful they are really sharp, when your skinning or butchering.


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there was a time when i wanted a 25 06 really really bad
thats a mighty fine whitetail round

The Noslers are a great bullet and from a .25-06 will do a great job on deer at any sane range. Generally most any bullet will work on whitetails but with the velocity of a .25-06 some of the softer ones will come apart at closer ranges if bone is hit and can be pretty destructive.

The 25-06 is one of those calibers that I've just never had a real need for. It shines when you need a long-range rifle without the magnum recoil. However, it REALLY needs a long barrel. Anything less than 24" is brutal to shoot (muzzle blast) and you give up too much velocity. It really does best with 26" (or longer) barrels. For me, I almost never get to hunt any place with more than about a 150yd shot and I'm usually in a tree stand where a short barrel is an advantage.

Originally Posted by DoyleAlley

The 25-06 is one of those calibers that I've just never had a real need for. It shines when you need a long-range rifle without the magnum recoil. However, it REALLY needs a long barrel. Anything less than 24" is brutal to shoot (muzzle blast) and you give up too much velocity. It really does best with 26" (or longer) barrels. For me, I almost never get to hunt any place with more than about a 150yd shot and I'm usually in a tree stand where a short barrel is an advantage.

My 25-06 has a 24 inch barrel (wish it was a 26 ). Will shoot .50 inch groups with factory ammo . Love it on power lines, gas lines and bean fields . Use a 22 inch barrel 30-06 for general hunting . 65 yrs. old and have given up climbing and hunt the wind now from the ground .

Remington is back in production, they are now owned by the same company as Federal and CCI. That being said it may take a while for them to catch up. I agree with the posters above that the Barnes TSX is a good projectile. I used them in my AR one year when I had a messed up shoulder and couldn’t use my regular deer rifle. I have since loaded them in several other cartridges and they are dynamite.

25-06 like the 30-06 are exceedingly popular guns primarily because of the many awesome variations of ammunition configurations that can be run through them. Another very important consideration is: Hopefully, we all can dodge this crazy newly proposed gun legislation and taxation fleecing (again) that promises to make owning any kind of gun or ammunition just another gewberment overregulated fee-based registration and taxation nightmare.