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Death By (Quarter) Inches

The rise and fall and rise of the .25-06.

The .25-06 and the traditional European single-shot stalking rifle are made for one another. The Blaser K95 weighs a shade under seven pounds wearing a Zeiss 3-9x40 scope—comfortable to carry and easy to shoot from makeshift positions.

As an unabashed and unapologetic lover of all—repeat, all—25-caliber rifle cartridges, it pains me deeply to see the one that is arguably the best of the bunch all around, the .25-06, dismissed as a boring, ho-hum, underpowered has-been. No, it is not as powerful as the .270 Winchester; no, it is not as compact as the .250-3000; no, it does not have the long-range zapping power of the .257 Weatherby. No, no, and no. What it does have, though, is the happy ability to be, for ...

Death By (Quarter) Inches

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