Hunting & Fishing Low Recoil 30-06 Load

[Greg Langelius *]

I'm working up a Savage Axis II 30-06 that I held onto when I gave my very trusty Win70 Featherweight 30-06 to my Daughter and Son-in-Law. It arrived with the now infamous crummy scope base/rings setup. That's been replaced with an EGW Steel 20MOA extended base, and a couple of sets of rings. It had a Trashco Tasco 2.5-10x42 on it that kept walking forward under recoil. I replaced the cheap package rifle rings and uncovered an older Simmons 6.5-20x50 Whitetail Classic and mounted that with a set of Vortex 6-scew rings. If they slip, I'm gonna be real sad.

Part of the problem was some peppy handloads for the new 178 ELD-X's. Forget about the scope; the load was whackin' me silly too.

So today I took a ministry of silly-walks step and put up a bunch of 50 loads using the Nosler 125gr Ballistic Tip and 52.0gr of IMR-4064. Technically 1.0gr under min, I figure its worth a try anyway. I did a lot of net diving looking for 125gr Garand loads and found ones listing from 45-55gr of Varget as running fine in the Granny. Just for S&G's I also put up ten of the same, but substituting the Sierra 125gr Pro-Hunter Spitzer.

We shall soon see what we shall soon see....

Greg

 

[Patton63]

Interesting. I look forward to reading your report. Good luck.

 

[TexGlocker]

Interested to hear how these loads turn out

 

[gopherslayer]

I use 53gr of Big Game with a 150gr at 2600fps.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Been sick. Very. Had to have EMS stop over twice this past month to bring Oxygen. It'll take a lot more than that to stop me.

I did manage to get out and test the new Ruger PC Carbine, and it's a keeper; but the outing had me worn down to the threads for the next few days.

Improving, will go for my first Cataract surgery this Friday, the second probably within a week or two. By Dec, I expect to be back up and running.

Later...

Greg

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Cataract Surgery went excellent. I cannot believe how far my vision had degraded. The eye is still healing, but vision is really, really good, and appears to be still improving. Thanks, VA.

Greg

 

[TexGlocker]

Hope you heal up well I’ve used I believe it’s the 125 grain managed recoil load out of a 308 for when my wif3 goes huntin* with me and it performed well on the buck she took. 10 steps and he was doen in sight. I can’t imagine the 30-06 wouldn’t perform equally well with the 125.