anyone like 30-06?

[Tomme boy]

960rds on enblock clips and bandoliers. opened all and checked for any corrosion. I found one can the one with blue tape that had 2 rounds on each clip had a corrosion mark where it was touching the paper sleeve. Kinda strange one on the top and one on the bottom of each clip.

I dont even have a 3006. I sold off the ones I was picking up for dirt cheap.

I am going through a bunch of the other reloading stuff from the old ladies father. He has a bunch of jacketed bullets I have to go through. Lots of 30cal and 25cal. I did not look what the 25 cal were. But they were mostly Sierra bullets. And a bunch of 35cal rifle bullets for his 350 rem mag in a 673 guide gun.

Lots of old powders. A few I have never seen before. But the 25 cal bullets I will never use so I will sell them once I find out what they are. I think he had a 250-3000 savage.

 

[fiver]

if they are 100gr. or less sierra's i'll be interested.
heck if they are spire points i'll be interested.

 

[Tomme boy]

I have to go cut a tree down tomorrow. Will grab a bunch of stuff and get a list. This is the branch that fell off. The tree is very old. It was already there when the house was built in 1852.

 

[glassparman]

Interesting about touching the paper sleeve. There is a ton of 6.5 Swedish blanks out there that have a discoloration from some chemical in the red boxes they were packed in. I have pulled down literal thousands of them for the brass. They are packed 15 or 20 to a box and the few in the middle have almost no discoloration but the ones around the edge are heavily changed.

I guess folks never though the stuff would be around long enough to consider the issue.

Those cans of .30-06 are very collectible!

Mike

 

[Jeff H]

WOW! What a find, @Tomme boy !

I don't have an '06 any more, but when I did, I did mostly because that kind of thing was pretty common. Not anymore, obviously.

I used to get 20 round boxes of National Match for $4, pull the full-patch ball and reseat Nosler Ballistic Tips - which were about $10/100pcs before their price quadrupled ($20/50pcs). Once that stuff dried up, the '06, though wonderful, was much more than I needed for anything.

 

[obssd1958]

I have several -06 chambered rifles. Including my favorite - my CMP Garand. I've always considered my -06 Model 700 to be my go to rifle, when I just need to kill something, but the Garand has a "smile" factor that is hard to beat!
If you decide to sell the Garand ammo, I might be interested.

 

[Farmerjim]

If I could only have one high powered rifle, It would be chambered in 30-06. I know the brass is getting harder to get, but I bought lots of it 50 years ago.

 

[Jeff H]

If I could only have one high powered rifle, It would be chambered in 30-06. I know the brass is getting harder to get, but I bought lots of it 50 years ago.

YES!

I remember when it was THE most common rifle brass and was everywhere and cheap. My dad and I held out for National Match brass, and could afford to be picky about that. We even perpetrated such atrocities as making it into other things, like 35 Whelen brass, and even 8x57 brass, when we couldn't find that cheaply enough. It also seemed to last a long time as well.

 

[Joshua]

There are still batches of once fired military 30-06 brass that come up for sale here and there. Two hundred to five hundred pieces at a time. If I can get it shipped for less than 00.15 cents each I feel I’m doing pretty good these days.

I’ll even buy crimp necked 30-06 blanks. Cut down these have provided many good cases for my 7.7x58mm rifles.

As far as the corrosion goes. That is a product of acid in the paper acting as a catalyst. My Mom used to work in a picture framing shop, a big up sell was to offer “acid free” paper and mats when doing archival pieces.

 

[Tomme boy]

What was weird was it was only one can. They all have the same lot # but back then that might mean 50 million rounds

 

[richhodg66]

How does a man not own a .30-06? The whole idea is simply unbelievable to me.

With all that ammo in en bloc clips, you need to go buy a Garand right now, don't delay.

 

[Tomme boy]

I dont like the cartridge. takes too much powder and just dont like it. I have had 7 3006 rifles over the years but they all went down the road

 

[Jeff H]

I dont like the cartridge. takes too much powder and just dont like it. I have had 7 3006 rifles over the years but they all went down the road

Nothing "wrong" with the'06, but anymore, I cringe when I see a case that needs more than 30 grains of powder, because there's nothing I need to do which would required so much. When I made a lot more money, and was paying $8/# for powder, the thought never occurred to me.

Grand ol' gal, the '06, but it was always more than I needed, but it was neat to have and shoot.

 

[fiver]

you can back the 0-6 to a 30-30 if your shooting a bolt gun, the wife shoots hers as a slow 308.
heck you can get it down to 32-20 if you use cast bullets.
there is a lot of versatility there if you have a wide spectrum of powders.

 

[glassparman]

I have the '03 Springfield that belonged to my father. Kicks like a mule!

Mike

 

[richhodg66]

I have the '03 Springfield that belonged to my father. Kicks like a mule!

Mike

It doesn't have to if you don't want it to. The '06 loads down real easy.

 

[Joshua]

RAMBLE ALLERT:
I started off in the right direction then cruised off into the weeds.

With a 180 grain Partition 30-06 is ballistically a great cartridge for elk out to about 350 yards. At 300 yards it has a retained velocity equal to the muzzle velocity of a factory 30-30 loaded with a 170 grain bullet.

It is also a joy to shoot all day long with a 311291 over 16 grains of 2400.

My M1917 is a heavier rifle. It isn’t horrible to shoot with full power loads, but it a lot to carry around all day up in the mountains.

I’ve fallen pretty hard for 7mm cartridges recently. In a lighter rifle I prefer less recoil, so I went with the 7mm-08, which carries enough energy out to about 300 yards for elk. In a heavier rifle for longer ranges I will most likely pick up a 7mm Rem Mag; it has recoil that is about equal to the 30-06, but extends the usable range out to 500 yards.

The folks I hunt with shot their antelopes this year at 600, and 650 yards. I don’t know if I will ever shoot at an animal that is that far away, but I definitely don’t have a rig that is set up for that now.

I’m not gonna say that I’m trying to compete with my friends, gear wise, I’m not. They are into these rifles for way to much money, and buying factory 28 Nosler to feed these rigs is way out of my league. But 7mm Rem Mag brass and rifles are cheap and plentiful compared to some of these fancy cartridges. I also ended up with a bunch of heavy 7mm bullets when I was getting ready to start reloading for the 7mm-08. If and when I start loading for 7mm Rem Mag I will also buy 32 pounds of that WC867, WC870 or WC872 powder. My goal is an economical working man’s long range rig.

Ok, I’m gonna try to tie this all together.

At the end of the day, a 30-06 will do most any thing I need it to inside of 300 yards, and so will the other two. However out at 600 yards only the 7mm Rem Mag is still going fast enough to reliably expand, and is still carrying enough energy to be effective on deer sized game. But all of these have dropped about 5’ to 6 1/2’ in that distance.

My 30-06 was my first centerfire rifle. I’m never gonna get rid of it. It works just fine.

 

[glassparman]

Nice write up Josh! I would love to add a 1917 to my arsenal. I love my Misurps!

Mike

 

[richhodg66]

I have several .30-06 rifles, no question in my mind that the '06 is the greatest cartridge ever developed. For what it is capable and good for across the widest range of applications and how long it has been doing it, nothing can come close and the things that do come closest give up a lot to gain a minimal edge somewhere else.

Funny, but the rifle that has been shot the most the past year or so is a heavy .30-06 with cast at 100 yards here in the yard. Fun,fun, fun.

 

[L Ross]

I have the '03 Springfield that belonged to my father. Kicks like a mule!

Mike

Not with the Lee 312-155-2R and 16.5 grains of 4227, right around 1,500 fps. Docile as a lamb, accurate, cheap, (if you have primers), and pretty easy on lead. That bullet seems to fit the throats of 03's and 03A3's nicely. Plus it carries all the way to 440 yards for me so far. But you do need to have a +20 MOA base under most scopes to get there.