Same experience for me with 30-06. It's a great cartridge, but it's not for me. I've owned a couple, and they've both whooped me a lot more than a cartridge that size had any right to.
I've really come to appreciate milder cartridges as I've gotten older. I'm a shooter a lot more than hunter, and not doing long range stuff anyway. I call it reverse magnumitis 🙃
