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.30-06 Springfield

Introduced 1906Springfield ArmoryCIP standard

Also known as 7.62×63mm, .30 Gov’t 06 — the same cartridge under different names, all of which find this page.

Dimensions and pressure

Generated from the schema, like every specification table on this site, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table.

Identity
Designed by
Springfield Armory
Introduced
1906
Production
not recorded
Standards body
C.I.P.
Case type
Rimless
Case shape
Bottleneck
Dimensions
Bullet diameter
7.85 mm0.3091 insource

C.I.P. G1, maximum bullet diameter.

Bore diameter
not recorded
Case length
63.35 mm2.494 insource

C.I.P. L3, maximum case length.

Overall length
84.84 mm3.340 insource

C.I.P. L6, maximum cartridge overall length.

Rim diameter
12.01 mm0.4728 insource

C.I.P. R1.

Neck diameter
8.63 mm0.3398 insource

C.I.P. H2.

Base diameter
11.96 mm0.4709 insource

C.I.P. P1.

Pressure
Maximum pressure
405 MPa58,740 psisource

C.I.P. Pmax 4050 bar; 1 bar = 0.1 MPa exactly.

Pressure standard
C.I.P.

SAAMI and C.I.P. measure pressure differently and their figures are not interchangeable, which is why the body is always named beside the figure.

Loads

Velocity is recorded per barrel length as published. A gun page interpolates between these points and never projects beyond them.

180 gr soft point

Bullet mass
11.66 g179.9 grsource

Published as 180 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.

Cartridge mass
not recorded
Bullet type
SP
G1 BC
not recorded
G7 BC
not recorded
Sourced velocity by barrel length
BarrelVelocity
609.6 mm24.00 in823 m/s2,700 fps

150 gr ballistic tip

Bullet mass
9.72 g150.0 grsource

Published as 150 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.

Cartridge mass
not recorded
Bullet type
Polymer-tipped
G1 BC
not recorded
G7 BC
not recorded
Sourced velocity by barrel length
BarrelVelocity
609.6 mm24.00 in887 m/s2,910 fps

Chambered in

Computed from every entry that lists this cartridge. Nothing here is hand-maintained.

Gallery

A drawing of four .30-06 cartridges numbered one to four, each shown beside the bullet it carries: a flat-based round nose, a spitzer, a boat-tail and an armour-piercing type.

Image credit

Title
File:30-06 Springfield 20260501025802.png
Author
BCC015
Licence
CC0 — public domain dedication
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:30-06_Springfield_20260501025802.png
A drawing rather than a photograph: four .30-06 loadings with their bullets shown separately.

Detail

The name is a date. Model of 1906, .30 calibre, replacing the .30-03 after two years because the Army had watched Germany adopt a pointed bullet and wanted one too — the case was shortened by a tenth of an inch and the round nose was thrown away. It then served as the United States’ rifle and machine-gun cartridge through two world wars and Korea.

Its case is the parent of an entire family. Shorten it and you get the .308 Winchester’s ancestor; neck it down and you get the .270 and the .25-06; leave it alone and it remains one of the most popular large-game cartridges anywhere.

What the M1 Garand did to it is a specific mechanical constraint rather than a preference: the rifle’s gas system was designed around a particular pressure curve, and commercial hunting loads with slow powders can bend its operating rod. That is a fact about the rifle, and it is recorded on the rifle’s page.

References

  1. C.I.P. TDCC datasheet — 30-06 Spring. · 2008-09-23 · read 2026-08-31
  2. .30-06 Springfield · 1367735276 · read 2026-08-31

Last verified 2026-08-31 · review status: agent-populated