Thread: The power of the 2506 AI

I shot a lot of game with a .25/06 before moving on to .270s and still have a .257 Rob AI. Agree with a lot of the comments above also.

The 87 and 90 projectiles are all very soft, at 06 speeds, excluding Barnes and will blow up on medium game.

The 100 grain Hornady spire point is a good medium game bullet at 06 speeds. Not to soft, opens up quicker than the 117/120s. Sadly no longer made. 100 gn bts shoot well. Once you get to game above large goat, fallow stag size, I reckon you need to go to a 115+. The 100 gn barnes TSX works well on goat, fallow, whitetail, Rusa size deer.

The trap here is the harder 120 cup and core projectiles can pencil through a bit and be erratic killers If you don’t hit some good bone IME.

Personally I prefer softer 130s (Sierra, Speer, hornady) in the .270 verse 117/120s in the .25 on medium game for more knockdown but each to his own.