Guess I’m the outlier here. I’ve never killed a deer with a .30-06. I once had one...an 03A3 that had been nicely “sporterized” by having the barrel cut and crowned at 19 inches and the original stock nicely reworked into a “Mannlicher” style....glass bedded barrel and action...really a nice job. I got it when I was 16. Paid $37.50 for it at the lgs. Dumb enough to let an acquaintance borrow it and I never saw it again.
Closest I’ve ever come to getting another is the .308 I’ve killed the last couple deer with.
