Easy answer is yes. The pragmatic answer is the 6-06 and 25-06 more or less fill the same niche with cheaper brass.

The .257 Weatherby is in a class of it's own.

Cartridge redundancy is the gun geeks joy. I imagine going hunting with a gun bearer/caddie with a golf bag full of rifles. The gun bearer will recommend the ideal rifle for each shot encountered. "Sir I would use the mashie on this one."


"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." Niccolo Machiavelli