Still a great cartridge! My family has always gotten great results from a 150 grain spitzer boat tail propelled by 50 grains of 4064.
I killed two nice bucks on consecutive days using my dad’s J.C. Higgins Model 50. It still has the Weaver 4x scope it had when the original owner bought it at Sears Roebuck seventy years ago. I lost count a long time ago of how many deer he killed with it.
I recently got a FN Commercial in .30-06 and I am looking forward to using it this coming season.
There have been various times in the history of American firearms when “something new” came along that was better than what was out there already, but for bolt action rifles that hasn’t happened in a long time. If you own a .30-06, you don’t need any other rifles for anything in North America.
Edit - needs are, of course, not the same as wants.
