30-06 vs Everything! 

IMMORTAL...That's the absolute best word to explain the 30-06 ,ever.

Ain't many troubles a man can't fix with $700 and a 30-06.

Thankyou for your excellent comments of the 30-06 and various other parent cartridges. I am a die hard fan of the 30-06 but do accept why fellow shooters go for the other various existing cartridges and new upcoming ones. I bought a .375HH lately for always having the need for a true magnum rifle in my heart. I do not mind recoil and not being ashamed to still use the 30-06 and will always be doing so.

I’m 68, retired, living on a farm in Central Virginia. When I was a young teenager 30-30’s and 30-06’s were the main cartridges used by deer hunters in this area. I started with the 30-30 then eventually bought a 30-06 and wow what a difference in capabilities. As I aged I bought a 270 and immediately felt like it was the perfect deer caliber for whitetail deer. Now, about 50 years later I’ve discovered the 7mm-08 and feel like this is my new love. When I think of the 30-06 I immediately recall the recoil. Of all the calibers I hunted with the 30-06 had the hardest recoil. That said, it’s a powerful caliber that puts deer on the ground. Always enjoy your thoughts and still learn something I never knew. Keep sipping the coffee and ruminating upon all things rifle.

There are very good reasons ,why the 30-06 is the cartridge that is the standardby which all other hunting cartridges are compared.

I started with a 3030 ,,, got a 06 an was hooked ,,,, luv messing with different calibers but the 06 is my favorite

Absolutely awesome video. Countless great points and valuable pieces of info. Of course I am biased with my 20“ 30-06 main hunting rifle 😂. The key point for me from your video is that the 30-06 is the home for heavy bullets out of a non-magnum. I run a 200 grain ELD-X at 2550 ft/s which works extremely well. IMHO the manufacturers should offer more heavy options, e.g. the 178 grain ELD-X is too light for my taste and will be only 100 ft/s faster

Great analysis of North America's sweetheart cartridge

Im a fudd from South Georgia, and this is my favorite cartridge. In my opinion it is the goldilocks of cartridges. I have a wide variety of cartridges, but I always gravitate to it. Since I was was a small boy, I remember listening to the oldtimers talk about how good the 06' worked on game. I received my first 06' at the age of 13 and downed many many deer with one. Regardless of what foruns and the internet says, being an old no frills "grandpa" cartridge does not make it less effective. Most younger guys like the flashy boutique cartridges due to marketing or the exclusiveness of having something that people oooh and ahh over. Plus most manufactures make the newer trendier rifles in the new cartridges flavor of the week cartridges, whereas the 06' is normally chambered in the more traditionally styled rifles that arent super tactical prs inspired designs that lots of people want now.

I love the 30-06 as far as it's capabilities within 400 yards. I want both a 308 in a light weight AR10 and I want a 30-06 in a modern rifle like a fierce or something along that lines. Either way on your opinions on the cartridge it works and works very well and sets the standards of everything hunting cartridges

Great job on the video! Always looking forward to seeing more.

I still have my first '06, that I paid for, 45 years ago. A sporterizrd 1917 eddystone. It will still do what ever I want it to, if I do my part.

The simple reason for its immortality is because you can go from taking 208gr eld bullets and driving them over 2800 fps and rivaling cartridges like the 300 win mag with much greater barrel life for long range shooting and hunting, to 150gr bullets at 3200fps for whitetail at intermediate ranges to 110 gr bullets at over 3400 fps for things like coyote or even 160gr solids for dangerous game at 2900 fps, all of this with some of the most temp stable powders on the planet like H4350 with barrel life in the 3500-4500 round range. There’s literally nothing else that can do that on top of being able to walk into any sporting goods store and finding ammo for it. It’s held on because it hit such a good ballistic sweet spot in terms of powder capacity to bore diameter.

I agree totally : ) Thanks for saying what I have believed all my life, I'm 69 !!! I shoot .243, 270, 30-06, .300win mag, but I own five 30-06's. I love those guns !!!!! I also have two 94's, one 30-30 and one .32 win specials. A 1953 and a 1954.😊

While this argument carries no ballistic weight, I've had fun giving guys pause by stating that, "No other American Rifle cartridge has won two world wars." 😃

The cartridge that should’ve knocked it off was the 280 Remington, but I heard they screwed the launch up and put it in a terrible gun and such. The 7 mm are really the sweet spot but I do love 30s.

Haha a video like this takes some guts to put up, you know you are going to make someone mad. One gun channel to another, solid sub from me.

Jack OCOnnor was in agreement with you. 06 is better than the 270, all around. 👍😀

LOVE❤ THE 30-06 THEN AND NOW 9NE CGOICE CARTRIGE.

We may have met the 7x57mm in the Spanish-American War of 1898, but we met its father, the 7.92x57mm, in WWI in 1917 and again in WWII.

Re: Heavier bullet recoil. I installed a quality muzzle brake on my '06. Even the heaviest bullets are tamed down, and my arthritic shoulder is most thankful. In my defense. Initially, when I bought my rifle, I failed to note that it came from the factory with a threaded barrel. I was pleasantly surprised and thought; "waste not, want not." Witt Machine 5 chamber threaded = about a 60% reduction in felt recoil. That ain't nuthin.

I started out as a youngster on 30-06 and over the years have tried many of the new popular calibers but nothing in my experience can keep up with the 'ought six. It's the best hands down. The 30-06 'immortal' should be its new name, what a great label. What else is there that can create such knockdown power at incredible distances for only a dollar a round? Nothing even comes close. Sure you can get 50 dollar a box ammo but I have had tremendous success with federal fusion 165 grain boat tail and those are an average of 20 dollars a box. Awesome information you gave us about the history of it, thanks!

Couldn’t agree with you more on your points. I’ve owned over 85 rifles from .22 - .45 caliber. I loved them all. And I think the new calibers are just great. But as I’ve aged (65yrs) I’ve just gone back to the 06, 270 or 7 Rem but not to take away from 7 PRC, 6.5 PRC, 6.8 etc etc but for what I hunt in western Canada it does me well. As a note I read somewhere recently but Phil Shoemaker the Master Guide in Alaska used the 06 with 220gr bullets for his grizzly hunts. So I think there is something to be said about experience. Remington’s CDL and BDL now have a twist rate of 1 in 8 on the 7 Rem Mag. The CDL is now chambered in the 7 PRC. So I think we will see more manufacturers bringing out the 7mm and the 270 in faster twist rates. Although I’ve never had a problem with shooting my two 6x7 bull elk at 80yds and 390yds respectively with my 270 in 150gr Noslers.

Yep ,Best bang for the buck, Especially with tough modern bullets.

I just cant put down my 30-06. Sometimes i think about switching cartridges but always find a justification not too.

🗽 Yes, the 30-06 is Still America's Hunting Cartridge! 🥳

Nitpick, we copied the Mauser 1893. We developed the 1903 to best that rifle. The US army lost an international shooting competition and then a panic to develop the 30-06. The Springfield even uses a resized 1893 stripper clip. It wasn't until 1913 that 7mm gained the Spitzer bullet. The 30-03 even used the Krag bullet

3006 i use 150 gr in Texas for Whitetail in Maine I use 180 gr in Canada either use 220 or 180 for blackbear for coyotes 95 / 110 gr great caliber less kick than a magnum

🤷‍♂️ What Most of the Younger Generations Don't Know Much About is How The History of Hunting "Accessories" Affected Peoples Cartridge Choices! It Wasn't Until The Late 1940's (After WWII) That Weaver Came Out With Their Model K-4 Rifle Scope (I Had One)! Up Until That Time, Most Hunters Were Using Open Sights and Most Hunted With the 30-06 and 270 Win.! Once the 50's Came, Out Came the 308 Win. and the Early 60's the 7mm Rem and 300 Win Magnums! Reloading Never Became Popular Until 1980's and Affordable Cronographs (Caldwell) Until the 1990's! Up Until That Time, These 5 Cartridges Were 90% of the Hunting Market Out West! Then Came the Early 2000's and Winchester's Short Magnums Began the Short/Fat Cartridges Craze! And, The Rest is History! 👨‍🏫

From 55. To 250 grains. And anything in between. Thanks!

Great video and info! I love the 30-06!

Isn’t 30-06 ammo generally available when lots of newer more “modern” cartridges are not? There is one of the best reasons for buying a rifle in that trusty chambering

The 06 is the GOAT. With today’s bullets you can literally shoot groundhogs to grizzleys. I have both a .270 and 06 and there’s really no need for anything else hunting. For shooting long range the .308 is more accurate and the 6.5 is all the rage. The reason we have all these discussions and arguments is because manufacturers have to introduce “new” to keep us buying. Same as arguments about the 9mm semi. which is the best and won’t be replaced. Now we have TSS shot for shotguns and everyone is buying new guns but your old 12 gauge works great same as 06.

.30-06 will always be all you need - she’s King !

A lot of talk about recoil. I think it's the type of rifle or recoil pad or lack of. I just got a new Winchester M70 Super Grade 30 06 and I don't even feel the recoil at the range. The recoil system is fantastic on that rifle.

ALL O6 CASE MAKES ALL TOP CALIBERS

30.06, 243, 308 aren't going anywhere. When companies keep trying to remake wheel so to speak. All those old cartridges are so good at what they do. New cartridges very rarely offer anything those others haven't offered for years.

The fact that 30-06 has been around since 1906 and you still half to compare everything to it shows its the best period

Wasn't Cuba owned by Spain at the time of the Spanish, American war? Wouldn't the Spanish be using the model 93 Mauser, which was in 7x57mm? The model 98 was chambered in 7.92x57mm.

For well over a century, 30 cal or equivalent, been the standard general purpose caliber of most military in the world. A good combination of stopping power, energy, against soft skin vehicles and is not that much heavier than 556.

264 win mag is my go to gun , but if I had to only one rifle it would definitely be the 30_06

30-06 on big swamp gators is #1 choice…on or off water hunting.

You can just look at the versatility of available cartridges from the manufacturers. There are more 30-06 than anything else. There is a reason it is considered the standard.

We were not 'pushed' onto WWII by Japan. We were starving them economically (you can look it up) Japan was fighting for survival. Wecwould have done the same. Also, they were kicking our ass at Midway and if our pilots followed orders, we would have lost. Look up Midway from Japans perspective. Eye opening. Other than that, thanks for a great video.

Oooohhhh yeaaaah give me a BAR. I WANT ONE

In South Africa it must be your go to cartridge!!

What lol... The 300 Blackout took the spot of the 30-06 haha. It's basically a 30-06 bullet pushed into a 5.56 jacket. They have SIMILAR Ballistic Performance. The 300 Blackout is an excellent choice for hunting as well, the gun is lighter and so is ammo.

3006 can take Anything on this continent have had one most of my life

30-06. Almost as good as every niche cartridge out there that can beat it for a single task. Good enough for everything from ground hogs to grizzlies.

I don’t think there is anything I can disagree with you here as far as North America hunting is concerned. If I was going to be hunting the big African “dangerous” game, I don’t think the 30-06 would be my first choice even if it was legally allowed in those countries. And yes I know that “Karamojo” Bell killed hundreds of elephants with the 7x57. Even Jack O’Connor in his “Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns” said that if he could have only one rifle to hunt the world over it would be a 375 H&H magnum. Of course he went on to say that of he was allowed a second rifle it would be a 270 Winchester. The 375 is really just as versatile as the 30-06 but not as practical. At least for most hunters. I’d have no problem with the 30-06 being my only rifle. Here’s a couple of little nitpicky things. The Spanish who sent Teddy Roosevelt’s dismounted cavalry troops rolling back down Kettle Hill (he never charged up San Juan Hill) were using 1893 and possibly 1895 model 7x57 Mauser rifles. Also the original 300 Savage 150 grain load equaled the 30-06 150 grain military load at the time at 2750 fps. Keep up the good work. Happy hunting boys and girls!😊

7.9mm Mauer is a little bit better especially for the MG. (heavy round) 30-06 is just a bit flatter shooting out to 300m .. I'm more about the sound out of the end of the barrel that 30-06 is very acceptable out of a 26" (660mm) barrel and the carbine.. .50 BMG has a similar pis out of the barrel as 30-06, just more gas.

30/06 is never the wrong choice.😊

3006 the best of everything. Dont mind knew cartridges either.. Do mind being constantly bombardedWith its best since white sliced bread. N haveing it all but shoved down our throats.. Like there doing n done with the the Creeds n all there hype.

30-06 does 220g down the 110g and everything in-between.

But the 30-06 has been completely outclassed by…..I can’t even say it with a straight face.

Please correct me if I am wrong but is not the 22 250 a necked down 30 06

I've used 3006 forever I'm 71 years old..have dropped all my large game with 3006

The fact that we have a cartridge from almost 120 years ago which is still a go to shows how amazing it is. I think 30-06 has some of the best wildcats too 35 Whelen, 280 ai, 270 25-06 it’s a moose to antelope.

I bought a 30-06 for the same reason back in the 80's. All the different bullet weights for different game.

I always find it funny when people say that a .308 has a farther effective range than a 30-06. I always know immediately that I don’t need any advice from that person.

Thru the years I have had tried several different chamberings I keep coming back to the 30-06

I totally agree! I love the 30-06

6.5 Staball does wonders for the 30-06. I just might need to buy a 30-06.

30-06 and 30-30 are the go tos here in northern Alberta, bush hunting we use a 336 and a 94 pushing 170s when the wife and I hunt, when we get out to the open quarter sections it is the 30-06 BSA Monarch using a 180 partition. This combo has fed our family for many years.

I usually shoot a 270, but I really love the 30-06. It is the best all-around cartridge out there. I have been handloading for a lot of different cartridges for the last 40 years and it is one of my favorites favorites for the ease and number of components that work.

Good job Patriot, I swear by the 30.06 cartridge, been shooting it for years

Brown bear? Ok understand opinion on dangerous game. However, 1980 - Kodiak Brown bear taken with Husqavarna DM8000 - 30-06 - 220 gr handoad at approx 80 yards. Love the rifle, have loved the cartridge for a long time. Versatile only begins to describe what this round can be tailored for. Saying its immortal is spot on. Have shot nummerous other bigger and smaller rounds. No cripes about any overall. Just no one other round as adaptable to literally any situation or demand. Great vid, very much appreciated.

There are lots of new cartridges that have appeared over the last few years and I'm happy there is a healthy gun culture. Being a long time student of exterior ballistics I do have to say there have been no new ideas that haven't been known already. Merchandising is the name of the game in firearms now.

30-06 can be loaded today to what 300wm was in the past.

30-06 is KING

Ive just bought my first hu ting rifle chambered in 30-06. As you guessed by it being my first im very new too hunting (city boy who moved to the country). I wanted to thank you for your video it has in my mind, eased my worries if i chose the right caliber. Look forward to your videos in the future

Killed my first whitetail with the 06. So many have fallen in the past 60 years. Everything on this continent as well from the brown bear on down to antelope. Just can’t say enough about the 06 !! 👍👍😀

The fact that ammunition for the .30-'06 is so widely available globally over 100 years after its creation, speaks volumes about Its popularity. This cartridge isn't going away anytime soon.

"The .30-'06 is never a mistake."-Col. Townsend Whelen

It’s all about making money, selling guns and selling new shells

If you can’t kill it with a 30-06, you probably shouldn’t be hunting it.

I have been a hunter all my life. I grew up shooting a 30-30, like most people. When I got out of college and got a good job, I wanted to get a nice gun that I could hunt pretty much anything in North America with. I work for the public and became friends with an old guy who hunted around the world. He had an impressive jungle room full of mounts from everywhere. One day I asked him if he bought 1 gun that you could hunt anything in North America with, what would that be? He told me to get a Browning Bar chambered in 30-06. He said it is not perfect for everything in North America, but it has the broadest application, in his opinion. I bought it about 25 years ago and it is still my favorite gun. It is a beautiful gun. The availability is important to me too. I love the 9mm for pistol use because of the comfort in shooting and availability too. I know many will say that I am too limited, but you do you and I will do me.

At 57 with a bad shoulder and a messed-up neck I've become recoil sensitive. I had to sell my 12 gauge and 30-06. Gone are the days of hunting with 1 ounce slugs and 180 grain deer thumper in the remmington auto. Really miss it. After a lot of research and saving money, I built a 6mm arc ar15 that is extremely accurate and has very little recoil.

Excellent video! Probably the best I’ve ever seen on the subject!!

In whatever it lacks in performance it always still wins because ammo can be found in every hardware store in every small town.

Excellent video. My dad and I have discussed all of this subject for years and years. After starting off my deer hunting journey with a .243 with 85 grain bullets, there was a tremendous difference when I killed my first buck with an ‘06. It’s been my standard for a long time now.

I am 56. I have a stupid assortment of rifles. Thus nearly as many calibers. Your video is spot on. I don't live and breathe 30-06 but it is awesome. I am very impressed by 6.5 Creedmoor accuracy but there is a reason folks around my neck of the woods call it the "6.5 needs more ". This was a very good video . I will be watching more of you thanks.

We took Zebra, Wildebeast, Kudu, Nyala, Gemsbuck, Sable, In Africa last summer with 180gn Nosler Partitions. Its still an awesome round and will remain so.

Great job of sharing some information on the .06. My first big game rifle was a REM. 700 in .30-06. Today I have four more .30-06’s, besides my other various rifles.

Good video - you touched it all from barrel life to versatility - congrats!

30-06 is hands-down my #1 favorite cartridge of all time, and nothing could EVER take its place! I use a Weatherby Vanguard with a 26 inch barrel, and these are the velocities I get: 130 grain: 3,400 ft/s 150 grain: 3,100 ft/s 165 grain: 3,000 ft/s 180 grain: 2,900 ft/s 190 grain: 2,780 ft/s 200 grain: 2,750 ft/s

I've owned and hunted with a lot of cartridges. My favorite for medium sized game Deer hog's Black bear is the 30-06.

Thank you for great information,I just invested in a 30-06 and this is perfect information for me . Thank you blessings

Great video. Really enjoyed it. Took my first two antelope in Africa with a 30 06. A special place in my heart

Don’t forget that 30-06 took dangerous game in Africa. Case in point, Hemingway killed a Rhino at 300 yards. And the Fish and Game Dept in Alaska says on their website that 30-06 is fine for brown bear, even better than magnums if you can shoot it accurately as opposed to big magnums that you can’t shoot as well.

Great topic. Nothing better than sitting around a hunting camp at night with a beer and debating cartridges. ❤. My Brother also felt that way. Said I just need 1 cartridge and I can do whatever I wanted in hunting. Rem 700 BDL and he was set. Unfortunately he passed away several years ago due to Pancreatic Cancer 😢. Well I inherited it. I have never been a 30 cal guy I've always been a 7mm man. While he got his 30-06 I got a 7RM😂. So now I have his rifle and I wanted to do something special with it as not a fan of BDL. So I have as I write this my brother's action at a custom smith getting totally redone. PR 26" barrel McMillan Game hunter stock. Terminator T3 Muzzle Brake. NF ATACR 5x25x56 Mill-C ret. TT flat shoe trigger. Bottom metal from the smith's preference with DBM 3 rounders. He is starting this month. Hope to see it in March. Oh and its not a 30-06 anymore it's a 30-06 AI. 😂 have 101 rounds ready to go. LAPUA brass loaded with some cheap 180 hornady 180 interlocks. Oh funny, as your talking about some cartridges being overbore I am literally doing brass prep on my new 6.5x300 wby. FL sized, chamfer, and debur case mouth. Gonna prime tonight. Tomorrow I will load up some new 153.5 Berger Hybrids with N570 with Fed 215M ignition.😂 Oh happy days. I feel the same as you do about the 30-06 as I do about the Mighty 7mm Rem Mag. It will never die. Great video

30-06 the cartridge " ALL OTHERS " are compared to❗️, John Browning didn't make mistakes ❤

My 22 inch Remington 700 in 30-06 is my baby. To handle recoil better just do push ups or even bench presses a bit. Barrels can be ported too.

If you know how to shoot, the 30-06 does it all .... usually very well. A well-placed shot at 500+ yards doesn't require a magnum round. It requires a set of skills that a lot of people think they can avoid learning by increasing power.

I love and use the .270 but the more you run the numbers and if you’re a hand loader the 30-06 does everything the .270 does better and so much more on top of that.

If you are good enough 3000 yards is still not the limit for 30-06 atleast for homosepians

30-06 loaded with 180 gr sst Hornady bullets ,hard to beat

The M1903 was a near copy of the Mauser 98. As was the .30/06 was of rimless Mauser cartridges. So much so that the US govt had to pay royalties to Mauser for making copies

I watched this because I am a HUGE fan of 30-.06. Great discussion / video. Thank you. I think factory load availability should also be taken into consideration. There's a whole slew of newer cartridges that I've not seen a box of on a store shelf where I live since 2020. I don't think there has been a single day that I couldn't find something in 30-.06 whether it was some M2ball or 200gr core-lokts or anything in between. Every cartridge company in existence has multiple loads available for the 30-.06. Now that there's somewhat better availability, I find boxes of 30-.06 considerably cheaper than most other options. A lot of these newer cartridges, while quite popular, simply aren't available everywhere a person might live or travel. 30-.06 is literally EVERYWHERE. You can drive through a town so small it doesn't have a dot on a map, and the one general store in it is going to have a couple boxes of it, but they most likely won't have a single box of any WSM, WSSM, or any PRC or any WBY magnums, etc.

I'm not a person who doesn't want new cartridges, but I understand that for the most part new cartridges are a marketing tool for gun manufacturers. What guns would they sell if they didn't come out with new cartridges? So 6.5PRC and 6.8 Western is just a new 270. No real need for either the 6.5PRC or 6.8 Western other than having to sell more guns and ammo😂😂😂 so we can talk all day about new and improved cartridges, but it is nothing more than marketing. The moose, deer, elk and bear that I shot and killed with my 3006 wouldn't have been any deader if I used a 7MM PRC 😂😂😂