Never heard it was boring and I started using one here in Alaska in 1965 and took my last caribou with one. Gave each of my daughters one when they were 16 and they took moose, caribou and black bear with them. Gave my grandson one for his birthday. I have known more people up here using the 30-06 then any other cartridge. Can't think of any critter up here it won't do the job on and my old pre-64 Featherweight will be passed on to a grandson some day. Take a good bullet and put it in the right place and the results are predictable, maybe that's where the boring comes in. Same thing time after time.