Talk:.30-06 Springfield

Sample velocities table in header

I don't think the 30 06 can do 2700 m/s. Looks like the numbers are ft/s and mixed up the units. ~2025-42056-28 (talk) 21:01, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Looking at the sources that the data links back to, yeah. Someone got Feet Per Second and Meters Per Second mixed up and then applied the conversion to the inflated Meters Per Second giving some truly interesting velocities. I'm still new and can't for the life of me find when the change happened, but it definitely needs to be corrected. I'm out of energy to go through and double check the velocities to manually fix it to the standards it deserves, but it needs some serious work or a change to be reverted. MishaFurry (talk) 02:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

There is a huge disconnect between the velocity table in the infobox and the one in the "Performance" section. I suggest we simply delete the one in the infobox. The one in the "Performance" section has multiple sources.

The alternative is that someone fixes the infobox by using that good section, including its sources. Does anyone want to do that, or can we agree on just deleting the figures from the infobox? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 03:50, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

You can easily compare the tables on this subpage: User:Valjean/.30-06 Springfield velocity -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 04:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Dimension specifications

The numbers for the dimensions are wrong. The numbers that they say are in millimeters are actually in inches, therefore, the inch values that are given are completely wrong since they are based off the wrong millimeters. ~2025-42107-89 (talk) 01:45, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source with the right numbers? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 03:51, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

... look at them. The rim diameter of a cartridge is not half a mm. Compare, for example to the 7.62x51 nato cartridge, which was derived from this one.

There has clearly been some kind of transcription error here. ~2025-42116-12 (talk) 00:06, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

I am not questioning what you say. I'm asking for a good source we can use to rebuild an accurate table. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 01:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

I think it's fixed now. Take a look. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 01:50, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

? rimless cartridge?

It says its a rimless cartridge, but then goes on to give the dimensions of the rim. Am I missing something? ~2026-49017-23 (talk) 08:00, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Aught???

Thirty oh six, or perhaps Thirty nought six, but aught? This is some bizarre drivel Itsthesoftlifeforme (talk) 18:09, 24 September 2026 (UTC)