And with today's bullets and powders, it IS everything the 30-06 was when it proved itself.
Yup. The '06 started with 150s at 2700 or so. That's what Teddy and Stewart took to Africa, I believe. Later, the advertised velocity was bumped to 2960 or thereabouts, but who knows what it really was. The Hodgdon manual shows lots of .308 150gr loads at over 2900. CFE223 gives a 150gr E-tip 2990, in a test barrel of course. Not too shabby.
The '06 can always go higher, of course, but the point really is that a .308 can do all the original '06 was capable of, with medium-weight bullets anyway.
