If all centerfire cartridges larger than .22 and smaller than .35 were outlawed but for the .30-06, we would bitch mightily, but, we would also go about killing as much stuff as we do now.

I usually avoid such threads that decry one cartridge or another and ballyhoo one cartridge or another. It really is one of several scenarios: A) Someone just wants to say something on a national forum, even if it's inane. B) Someone is bored. C) Someone is clueless (because he has zero experience or has never read a book). D) He just wants to stir the pot in a troll-like manner.

What cartridge we happen to use on any given day is nowhere near as important as knowing how to use the rifle it's chambered in- whether it be at a shooting range, the back yard, or hunting environment. I have a helluva lot more respect for the guy who can slop five shots into a dinner plate-sized circle at 200 yards off the hind legs with the old family heirloom .30-06 sporter than a whole bunch of other nimrods who can shoot 1" groups at 200 yards with their custom .6.5/.243/7mm/.30 Mag Wonder Rifles off the bench with state of the art optics under ideal conditions but who haven't fired a shot from offhand/sitting/prone position since Boy Scout Camp 30 years ago.

"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty