.30-06

7.62×63mm or .30-06 Springfield is the US classic battle rifle cartridge, designed for M1903 rifle. While it was retired from the military in late 1950s in favor of .308, .30-06 remains very popular general-purpose hunting round. What's even better, due to heritage, modern .308 projectiles easily can be loaded in .30-06, while larger case capacity can provide a bit of a performance boost.

Ammunition types

 * M1906 Ball: Original 150-grain cupronickel jacketed lead bullet with noticeably poor long-range performance.
 * M1 Ball: Improved round with 174-grain lead antimony core bullet and new propellant employed. Long range performance was drastically improved.
 * M2 Ball: As the maximum range of M1 Ball was revealed to be far beyond the safety limitations of many military firing ranges, M2 with 152-grain lead core bullet was introduced.
 * M1 Tracer: Tracer for observing fire, signaling, target designation, and incendiary purposes.
 * M1917: Early armor-piercing bullet with steel-core and partial jacket with soft point.
 * M1918: Improved steel-core round with full jacket.
 * M1922: Updated AP round with heavier steel core.First to introduce black tip marking.
 * M1 AP: Short-lived high-velocity (3180 fps) AP round.
 * M2 AP: Steel-core armor-piercing round that remained the standard .30-06 AP until the caliber was phased out and remains the signature threat for Level IV NIJ armor standard. Stated penetration will be not less than 0.42 inch (10.66 mm).
 * M14 API: Steel-core armor-piercing incendiary round with 2 grains (0.13 g) of IM11 incendiary composition. Stated penetration will be not less than 0.42 inch (10.66 mm).
 * M1918 Incendary: In 1918 Royal Laboratory loaded Buckingham type incendiary ammunition on contract for the United States. The bullets were basically copies of the Buckingham Mark III.
 * British improved Buckingham bullet, reloaded in .30-06.
 * SS Explosive: Super sensitive exploding bullet.
 * Pomeroy Explosive: British nitroglycerine-filled round.
 * 350GC: 350-grain solid tungsten projectile.
 * Accelerator: Saboted 55-grain .223 soft-point projectile.
 * Black Talon HP: "Legendary" hollow point that, contrary to CNN, does not defeat body armor.
 * Bronzepoint Match: Remington 180-grain hunting load.
 * SP-340 JSP: Heavy 340-grain soft-point.
 * DSG XMP: Modern ultraheavy tungsten penetrator.
 * FA47 AP: Experimental penetrator with molybdenum core. Better than steel but inferior to tungsten.
 * ABC AP: Modern hardened steel penetrator.
 * Greener Duplex: Experimental duplex round.
 * Greener Triplex: Experimental triplex round. With three projectiles per shot, this really ups hit probability but penalizes range and per-projectile stopping power.
 * WCC-58 Duplex: Another duplex load.
 * WCC-57 triplex: Another triplex load.
 * Squeezebore Multiplex: Five-projectile multiplex loading, produces a shotgun-class effect out of a normal rifle.
 * Hebler Tubular: Tubular bullet designed to minimize drag.
 * LC/70: Depleted uranium discarding sabot armor penetrator.
 * Silent: Experimental subsonic ammo for clandestine use.