30-06 and the 150

[6mm Remington]

Nosler 150 gr. E-tip will be a great bullet in your 30-06. H4350 or IMR4350 will both work great and will expand nicely on game, and penetrate like a champion.

 

[TX Trophy Hunter]

I shoot the 150 ttsx out of a 300 wsm at about 3125 fps. The longest shot I have made was 465 on a deer which puts the impact velocity around 2300. It worked well at that velocity, but I won’t push it any further than that. I imagine you’d have no problem out to 400 with the 30-06.

 

[Mustangs Rule]

I shoot the 150 ttsx out of a 300 wsm at about 3125 fps. The longest shot I have made was 465 on a deer which puts the impact velocity around 2300. It worked well at that velocity, but I won’t push it any further than that. I imagine you’d have no problem out to 400 with the 30-06.

My old 30-06 and my much newer 308 Sako Finnlight Carbine with it's 20-inch match grade barrel both shoot the Barnes TTSXBT 150 grain bullet with a BC of .420 at 2.975'/sec. Using the upper number for expansion of 2,000'/sec not the lower range of 1,800'/sec at 500 yards the velocity is 2,071'/sec and at 550 yards the velocity is 1,995'/second.

Using the non-tipped TSX 150 grain bullet that 2,000'/sec benchmark is met at about 425 yards.

The only time I have ever used the TSX not the tipped bullet was when the magazine was too short for the tipped bullet,

 

[Mustangs Rule]

Been running 180’s cup and core in my 06 for a while now. Very accurate. Running 2700fps, mid range charge of H4350. Never recovered a bullet on any ungulate or black bear.

Does anyone run 150 grain copper in the 06 at quick speeds? What kind of velocity do you get? Powder recommendations? How does copper perform at close range <100 yards when going fast? Load data looks like 2900-3000.

Heavy and slow works damn good from 20-400 yards. Might try copper for fun though.

What hunting tons of Huge Black Wild boar taught me about bullets and calibers.



For twenty years, two overlapping hunting experiences were mine to have 12 months a year.



One was in the Arizona Strip where genuiune mean Russian Wild Boar had escaped into and were creating a reign of environmental destruction. They came from a canned hunt operation along the Virgin River catering to Las Vegas tourists. A flash flood came through and freed them.



Another source of pigs there came when a semi hauling porkers rolled over in the Virgin River gorge and they escaped into that wild country of NW Arizona. They were domestic pigs however and did not make it. The environment was way too tough for them. The Russians were just as tough as that land and were just fine.



Arizona F&G encouraged any and all hunters from anywhere to come anytime without any tags or license and kill them, without limit



The other place for all year boar hunting was the giant grain ranch country of central California. I had hunting privileges on one 3,000 acre barley where a hundred could come in at a time. No limit, no closed season, and with depredation permits even could hunt them at night under a full moon or with lights.



Again, the tough black ones with that cartilaginous shoulder plate prospered. Lots of mountain lions killed off the domestic gene pool quickly. That shoulder armor was “Tiger Tough” being as those boar were once cohabitants of the same range with tigers.



None of these were the little spuds hunters are shooting in Texas with .223 AR’s.



I cannot imagine how many I shot, then add in how many the hunters I guided back then shot.

Easily into the hundreds





Over these two decades I shot boar ever so near and so far away. My lightest calibers were 6.5x55 and 270. My biggest guns were 35 Whelen, then 300- and 338-Win mags for big boar, up to 400 pounds.

The best and only good eating were those 40 to 60 pounds.



I used every type of bullet. Started with lead cup and core. Saw some angled right off of that shoulder plate.



When landowners wanted hunters to go no lead, I tried Nosler E-Tips, they lost just as much weight as lead. Used lots of early Barnes all copper. Had problems but became excellent with refinement. Also tried and loved 170 grain round Lapua Naturalis round nosed. They were great up close in the barley but could not cover the distance on those long far away open shots.



When all was shot and done for both 308 and 30-06 were my favorites with a 165 grain Barnes TTSXBT going 2,900’/sec.

This bullet was still hitting the 2,000'/sec expansion standard well past 500 yards. And I have shot huge boar in the open barely fields out to almost 600 yards and they did just fine.

I have the highest respect for 30cal 150 grain Barnes bullets, but I wanted one bullet for both my 308 and 30-06 for everything,

The 165's open up just fine on the small boar, (And yes Deer and Antelope too) They break right through the shoulder plate and shoulder on the huge boar and keep going right through and out. That never happened on big boar with either lead cup and core bullets or Nosler E-Tips.

Can't go wrong with either the 150 or 165 Barnes and they both shoot to the near exact same point of impact.