I had multiple 30-06 rifles and never got too excited by them, ho hum, it's a 30-06... They killed elk just fine but Zzzzz
I looked for some more performance in 35 Whelen , 3 different 760 pump rifles and a bolt rifle over 20 years and lastly, a 338-06 bolt rifle.
Each one worked fine but was sold to other guys looking for a magic cartridge/rifle combination and later replaced, "maybe I'd overlooked something, I should try a new bullet"
Nope,there's no magic cartridge

I could have saved a lot of time and a few bucks if I'd just loaded better bullets for the 30-06s and focused more on hunting and less on cartridges.

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen