if you read and believe the "what gun will you never own" thread the 06 will be terribly boring and too easy so you should use something else. in other words yes it should make an awesome sheep rifle.
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__________________ An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
Almost perfect for sheep, especially when the operator takes advantage of the cheap ammunition and shoots a ton, if anyone tells you that it isn't enough for sheep, smile, nod, and go kill a smoker ram
30-06 is a great cartridge, have used it for years and on more critters personally and professionally than i kept track of.. Ranges from muzzle to 500+ m and never lost an animal if i did my part.
Yes it is fine for sheep and anything else that calls the Rockies home!
Even John Moses Browning needed the 30-06 as a template for superior firepower. The only thing he could think of was making it bigger. The 50 bmg is nothing more than a dimensionally larger 30-06.
If John browning couldn't come up with a better mid-bore no one can
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It's a perfect all around cartridge. For a specific sheep rifle I'd just neck it to a flatter shooting better BC 284. But an odd six will kill them more dead with a rounder trajectory.
30-06 for Sheep
in other words yes it should make an awesome sheep rifle.
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