Firearms

[bad-one]

I'm in love with my .30-06 from savage arms

[Neal]

I'm in love with my .30-06 from savage arms

Great gun, but I'd prefer a .270. More so than that would be an AR .308. The bad thing about 30-06 & 270's are they're a good distance gun but shooting into brush will own that caliber. Your 35 remington is a good brush gun, but not great for distance. Ideally that's one of the reasons why the .308 has become more popular. It can shoot very nicely over distances and it's considered a brush round which means if it hits some brush it won't throw the path off nearly as much as a 270 or 30-06 would get thrown off.

Now granted I live in Louisiana and nowhere around here do you have more than say 100-150 yards of clearing, so my AR-15 wth my 2.5x scope can well take care of things for the opening if I choose to hunt with it, of course I'd use a .223 though. As a side note I have taken a deer out with a .270. I think my best kill was with the smallest caliber would of been when I killed a deer with a .17 HMR. I was hunting with a friend and I brought my 30-30 out but I dropped it when I slipped and busted the scope, so when we came up on the deer, only one gun was still able to shoot accurate and that's what I used.

[PitOnTheProwl]

ar .308

ar-10

[Neal]

ar-10

Yea but most people won't know what an AR-10 is because if you're not into firearms most people don't realize the AR-15 was designed from the AR-10 for the military.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Yea but most people won't know what an AR-10 is because if you're not into firearms most people don't realize the AR-15 was designed from the AR-10 for the military.

AND the "AR" prefix does not apply to 99% of the rifles it is used for, they are not ArmaLites either

[Expensive hobby]

Great gun, but I'd prefer a .270. More so than that would be an AR .308. The bad thing about 30-06 & 270's are they're a good distance gun but shooting into brush will own that caliber. Your 35 remington is a good brush gun, but not great for distance. Ideally that's one of the reasons why the .308 has become more popular. It can shoot very nicely over distances and it's considered a brush round which means if it hits some brush it won't throw the path off nearly as much as a 270 or 30-06 would get thrown off.

Now granted I live in Louisiana and nowhere around here do you have more than say 100-150 yards of clearing, so my AR-15 wth my 2.5x scope can well take care of things for the opening if I choose to hunt with it, of course I'd use a .223 though. As a side note I have taken a deer out with a .270. I think my best kill was with the smallest caliber would of been when I killed a deer with a .17 HMR. I was hunting with a friend and I brought my 30-30 out but I dropped it when I slipped and busted the scope, so when we came up on the deer, only one gun was still able to shoot accurate and that's what I used.

.30-06 getting thrown off by brush more than a .308? Explain?


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[Craigaria]

Box o truth did testing on bullet deflection. They setup a target 10 yards in front of another target. The first target was shooting through 1" dowels then they measured deflection at the second target. They then shot 5 or 6 different rounds through it and found the heaviest rounds did the best. .223 did the worst although the was only 4" of deflection. Not enough to miss a deer. 308 and larger showed almost zero deflection through the 1" dowels.

Although they didn't test 30.06, I would assume it would do as good or better than the 308.

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[Stewart_Reptiles]

I have a Glock 19 and a ruger lcp .380 (one for home one to carry ) and my husband has a few things too

As far as shooting I started competitive shooting at 11 so I have been around guns a VERY long time, now I shoot from time to time.

[h20hunter]

While we are on the topic does anyone else reload their own? I've done .30-30, .223, .45acp, and .40. I run a Dillon 550B. Gearing up for a run of 9mm.

[Expensive hobby]

Box o truth did testing on bullet deflection. They setup a target 10 yards in front of another target. The first target was shooting through 1" dowels then they measured deflection at the second target. They then shot 5 or 6 different rounds through it and found the heaviest rounds did the best. .223 did the worst although the was only 4" of deflection. Not enough to miss a deer. 308 and larger showed almost zero deflection through the 1" dowels.

Although they didn't test 30.06, I would assume it would do as good or better than the 308.

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Well ya, the -06 has the same diameter, heavier bullet(generally) and a larger case with more load.

Can't see in the case that the heavier bullet is better, the .30-06 doing worse than the .308 lol. It's physics.


On a side note my collection is MUCH smaller than when I worked at a gun store.

Now alls I have is my Bushy XM15, Romy AK-47, Rem 870 12ga with some "tactical goodies", 870 wing master 20g, Springfield 1906, Glock 23 .40 cal, and a few others...


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