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A case’s head stamp has never killed a deer.

Nice. The younger generation than me would say “I saw what you did there”.

Nah it’s a comment on the irony of getting upset about the effectiveness or not of a bit of copper and lead.

Hah, I’m sure some people could find an argument in anything. It’s well proven on here.

The government are likely to ban the 25-06. They don’t want people crawling around in the bush looking for lost and wounded animals when they could instead be working hard to earn money so they can...

:) After 18 pages it doesn't look like too many people are convinced.

But truth is, if it was the only caliber available here you could still grab your rifle and kill any NZ animal at a reasonable...

Yes, that's what they were. Poll axed Tahr. Rifle was a Blaser and he could shoot Tahr on the run no problem. A great natural shot.

No 25.06 ever deserved 5 pages :D

The 3" rule sort of goes like this...from memory.

Sight in 3" high at 100, and you can aim dead on out to 300 and be within a 3" kill zone, and hold 12" high at 400 for a killing shot.
So, out to...

For sure. Being pragmatic sure ruins some fun :)

I was just roughing out the 3" high at 100 factor thing off the top of my head for the sake of the argument. It works, and has stood the test.

If the internet didn't exist, and you just picked up a 25-06 with a 4x 'scope on it, sighted it in for 250 yards, stuffed some 120 grain factory rounds into it and went hunting...you would be...