Common Rifle Cartridge
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 1980s. The “.30” refers to the caliber of the bullet in inches e.g./ .300 inch, and the […]