whats your favorite '06 cast bullet gun

harrympope

Active Member
here's Mine. it's a mid-fifties model 70 featherweight with a 24 power Redfield 3200. It's not a sub minute of angle gun per se but it shoots about every bullet in load I put in it reasonably well.
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
1903A3, with the original barrel date of 2-43.
 

Rick

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I don’t have an ‘06?
:embarrassed:

You don't? :eek: Me either. :) Never seen a need for one, for anything I'll be likely to hunt at any distance I'm likely to hunt if a 308 doesn't do it it just plain doesn't need to be shot. In the extremely unlikely event that I ever do go somewhere where a couple of hundred extra yards could be possible the 06 may be a better choice.
 

Gary

SE Kansas
Tikka 30-06 with Left hand bolt. Smoothest bolt of any rifle I've ever owned.
 
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RBHarter

West Central AR
I guess it's a Savage 110LH circa 1965 . The other choice is a 760 that I just can't warm up to . Sold the 03A3 ........we just didn't talk either , I think one of spoke in Swahili or something . Eventually I guess I'll have to give Grampa's 1957 M70 a go . It probably hasn't had 150 rounds through it , plain Jane walnut , 3 screws , old 4x Weaver .......... Yeah too soon yet .
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
A 1937 Springfield Armory National Match with it's original barrel. Was converted to a USMC sniper rifle in 1942, with Unertl scope. Sold out of government service after WWII and converted into a sporter, bent original bolt, re-drilled for Weaver scope mounts, buffed to a bright finish and restocked in a heavy walnut in a 1950's style and checkered. Won the CBA Military Nationals for scoped with it in 2007 and then put a Lyman 48 on it and won the Modified Iron Sight Nationals in 2016. While it will not shoot one MOA groups very often, it will shoot 1 and 1/4 MOA groups all day long. P.S. I bought it from a pawn shop for less than $150 in about 2000.
 

Intheshop

Banned
For foul weather, ss Savage 116 with highly modified factory tupperware,and usually a decent 3-9X40 scope. Would take a single axle dump truck to haul the game this one has killed.

Blue bird days,ss CDL R700 (avatar) which is bone stock. Stock has some good figure,but is pretty durn heavy.It also wears a 3-9X40.
 

Urny

Missouri Ozarks, heart still in the Ruby Mountains
My Winchester Model 54, 6X Leupold, semi-fancy claro walnut stock in the traditional classic style, engraved receiver and floor plate by Roger Bleilie (spelling?). It does very well with 311284 cast of coww + 1% tin, or the old 180 grain Silvertips, of which I may have about 300 left. One of the few firearms I have owned that received a name.
 
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fiver

Well-Known Member
at 100 yards it's the 03A3.
at 300 yds it's the 1917.
in the field probably the wife's Savage 110.
for more serious hunting with copper wrapped stuff it is hands down the Bergara.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I'll have one again when I get around to buying a .337-neck reamer and finish off the .30 XCB. In the meantime all I have is a .270 and four .308s.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
.311" is minimum in my 30-30, It's got a great bore with no loose or tight spots, a nice even .310" from one end to the other.