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What does 30-06 mean for a rifle?

Updated: 9/14/2023

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The bullet is approximately three tenths of an inch in diameter (0.30") and this particular design was accepted by the US Army in 1906. The bullet is actually 0.308" in diamter, but that's close enough to thirty caliber to call it thirty caliber.

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