It's cousins (270, 280, 308 etc) are never branded boring so why the 30/06?
Oh please, if the 06 is boring then the 308 must be cold stone dead. Both are great cartridges
Only read so far in the thread and I felt the need to respond. The 30-06 is a round from the cavalry era of the military, and was designed from it's inception as a cavalry troopers round capable of efficiently destroying a horse.
And as such it was designed in a 9 lb rifle which was deemed at the time the minimum weight rifle that the average cavalry trooper could effectively handle the cartridge in. No problem there, as it was the horse that would primarily carry the burden of the rifle.
And the 30-06 rifle can be had in trimmer form these days, but there is a price to be paid in recoil. This recoil can be viewed from 2 perspectives. First perspective is that the 30-06 is the most effective rifle in it's class with acceptable recoil. Second perspective is that the average deer hunter doesn't need a horse killing rifle, or the weight and recoil of such.
The 30-06's rep as a deer killer came about due to it's numerical prevalence in the hands of American deer hunters. Which of course came about due to it's military use. It's a short jump to imagining and designing a lighter and easier to use deer rifle. Which to many, if not most, equals less boring...
