Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 30-06 survey - Too much gun?

I have 2 30-06 rifles. One is sighted in for 150 gr. bullets and I use it for deer and antelope with perfect results. Timber load goes 2700 fps and the open country load gets 3000 fps. The other is sighted in for 180 gr. Nosler Partitions pushed near 2800 fps. It is my general purpose elk rifle. To say recoil is an issue is foolish. You can buy over the counter light recoil loads. You can load 110 gr. Speer Varminters to 1500 fps for a fine practice load, many variations of cast bullets, many varmint weight bullets on up. There are many bullets well suited to loading the 30-06 to more mild power levels with proper bullet expansion. We would have been wise to have our hunting population to stick to this round instead of the many different cartridges that may be hard to get ammo for in a crunch. The 30-06 gives up nothing to the 270 concerning trajectory.