Best Factory .25-06 load for Muleys

[Hiker]

KB, Thanks. Great info. and I appreciate it.

[Fatty]

KB,

Thats awesome, thank you.



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[chet]

fatty, I own both calibers....
A mule deer at 400 yards would be best fed a 110grain accubond from a 257.
I have 75 grain ballistic tip loads for both calibers, and the 243 is supperior in the lighter bullet department.
After 90 grains of bullet, the slow burning powders help the 25-06 push the heavier bullets better.
but please dont shoot a deer at 50 yards with a 100 grain ballistic tip from a 25-06, impact velocity is too high. Use a good bonded bullet, accubond, a-frame, partition, barnes (if you can get them to shoot straight)
If you are buying a barrel, consider a 25-06 ackley imp.

I love both calibers dearly..... but the 257 goes deer hunting with me.

[Fatty]

i dont fully understand the Ackley Improved.

shed some light?

[killerbee]

Nice charts killerbee May I ask what the book is? I have a lot of charts like that that I have made for my rifles but I would sure like a book for other calibers as well.

it's called " THE TARGET BOOK" by charlie middleton and pat moran they also put out a book called " percentage tage" for oregon each year. the book is awsome and gives a tone of info for basically EVERY gun, even alot of the wildcat calibers.

[MNbogboy]

Fatty, Your choice in the 25-06 would indeed be a good one...I have had a 700 BDL for well over 20 years...after several thousand rounds the accuracy is falling off somewhat but it still often shoots under or close to a minute with reloads.....I have not used a lot of factory loads other than Rem 100 gr pointed soft point and they shot and killed well....The fact of the matter is anything you shoot through it seems to stop deer size game in its tracks, in over a hundred deer with this gun, I can only think of a few stayed on their feet and only one or two that ran 50 yards or so one poorly hit whitetail buck went several hundred yards and required a finishing shot.....I am now shooting 110 grain Accubonds....I like the plastic tipped bullets because they do not deform in the loading sequence...So the Nosler Ballistic tips will probably be a good choice because you don't reload....
Randy