30-06 is the bread and butter for elk cartridge. Elk aren't really that hard to kill if you hit them in the boiler room. I'd also have no problem taking my Flat bill 6.5CM with LRX, or you wish I was gay 270 with TTSX . Andr if I really want to anchor them, I can take the african worthy 9.3x62. But the older I get (lol .. Im only 40) and years of hunting and killing elk, I realize you don't need the big super duper magnums unless you're really going long range.
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
