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| - The .30-06 remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers. Being widely used, it should be quite easy to find the round in gun stores and homes. Large volumes of surplus spent cartridges are available, meaning you can handload your own bullets.
- The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced “thirty-aught-six”, "thirty-oh-six") or 7.62 x 63 mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and standardized, and was in use until the 1960s and early 1970s. It replaced the .30-03, 6 mm Lee Navy, and .30 US Army (also called .30-40 Krag). The .30-06 remained the US Army's primary rifle cartridge for nearly 50 years before it was finally replaced by the 7.62 x 51 mm NATO (commercial .308 Winchester) and 5.56x45mm NATO (commercial .223 Remington), both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. It remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers.
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- The .30-06 Springfield (pronounced thirty-aught-six or thirty-oh-six, 7.62×63mm) was developed by the Springfield Armory for United States Army in 1906 and used until the late 1960s and early 1970s. The numerical designation was caliber first (.30) and year developed second, (06). The .30-06 Springfield is one of the most notable cartridges of World War II. It is used in the M1 Garand, as well as the M1919 Browning machine gun. Due to the large volumes of surplus military rifles and its popularity, the .30-06 Springfield has inspired dozens of commercial and wildcat cartridges.
- The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six" or "thirty-oh-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation and called "30 Gov't 06" by Winchester was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in use until the early 1970s. The ".30" refers to the caliber of the bullet, and the "06" refers to the year the cartridge was adopted—1906. It replaced the .30-03, 6 mm Lee Navy, and .30-40 Krag cartridges. (The .30-40 Krag is also called the .30 U.S., .30 Army, or .30 Government.) The .30-06 remained the U.S. Army's primary rifle and machine gun cartridge for nearly 50 years before being replaced by the 7.62×51mm NATO (commercial .308 Winchester) and 5.56×45mm NATO, both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. It remains a very popular sporting
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