Optimizing .30-06 Performance
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The .30-06 still stands as one of the best choices for all-around use on big game—particularly with modern projectiles and propellants.
From close up to 400 yards, it's superb. From little southern whitetails and pronghorn antelope to Alaska/Yukon moose, it's outstanding.
This episode takes a deep look into how to get the best performance your .30-06 is capable of.
- Why the .30-06 became so popular in the first place
- What traditional cup-and-core bullets do so well out of the .30-06
- How it is still relevant today
- How it kills with so much authority
- Where it's at it's best (out to 400 yards) and why
- Capability, shootability and recoil
- Factory ammo: broad-spectrum use
- Barrel life
- Picking modern loads with modern bullets
- Handloading tips for the .30-06
- Classic bullets for use inside 300 yards
- Modern bullets for maximizing capability past 300 yards
- Best bullets for use on big elk, moose, and bear
- Rifle actions, barrel lengths, stock types, and scopes for use with .30-06
Final thought: It's not just about what you use, it's how you use it.
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| 0:00.0 | As much kerfuffle as there is about modern cartridges and notwithstanding all the advantages of cutting-edge |
| 0:08.3 | cartridge case and projectile design, there's still a veteran cartridge that every backcountry hunter should consider. |
| 0:16.7 | It's America's war horse cartridge, right? A veteran of more than a century of hard use around the world. |
| 0:26.5 | It fought through two world wars. |
| 0:28.6 | It's an international favorite and for good reason. |
| 0:32.2 | Of course I'm talking about the 30-06 Springfield. And that, my friends, is our topic of the day. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Backcountry Hunting Podcast. I'm Joseph von Benedict and we're here to discuss |
| 0:46.0 | why the 30-06 has been so popular for so long. Why it's so good at what it does and probably most importantly why it's |
| 0:58.4 | still relevant on today's scene. And then finally, the kind of cool, interesting stuff, |
| 1:05.6 | how to get the best out of it with modern bullets and loads. |
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