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-If there's such a issue with that length, why do they seem to be the standard length barrels manufactured?
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Ease of manufacture. Most manufacturers use one barrel length for their "standard" cartridge rifles and if they vary barrel length the "magnum" cartridges get a longer barrel.
The 25-06 is a large enough cartridge with a small enough bore that it could benefit from a longer barrel, even though it's not called a "magnum". So
ideally it would have a 24" or longer barrel, but if all you can find is a 22" barrel, take solace in the fact that no deer shot with a 22" barreled 25-06 is going to run away because the barrel wasn't 2 inches longer.