never without a 30-06 may not hunt with it every year but always have one, current 30-06 is a tang safety Ruger 77 in a Bell & Carlson stock and a 3x9 Leupold, just like Finn Aagard thought was perfect.
Finn spent the last years of his life with the 308 Win. He liked that it kicked less than the 30-06, while doing the same thing.
It doesn’t do the same thing though ... it’s slower
In the real world (on game) it does the same thing... I've used both extensively on a fair bit of game bigger than deer, and have found that to be the case.
And I've heard many times the .300 Savage is just as good on game as the .308 so in essence the .300 Savage=.30-06. And of course that would hold true on all game at all ranges.
Well, the .300 Savage was designed to offer .30/06 ballistics (those of the original military load at least, which was on the mild side compared to some more modern loads) in a more compact form. So for that matter was the .308. With something like a 150 gn bullet on medium game the actual difference is really more theoretical than actual, it seems to me. The difference in recoil is more theoretical than real too, and any of them can be throttled back if recoil's an issue. The larger case of the .30/06 seems to put it ahead by a significant margin with heavy bullets, for those who use them.
