I grew up hunting in Oregon, mostly blackmail. My first few were with a Marlin 336 in .30-30, but being young I was sure I needed an '06. The next year I took another blackmail at about 20 yards with a scoped 06 and it didn't work any better.

I eventually settled on a .257 Roberts.
These days I use a .223 just as often as not.

“You never need fear a man, no matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me, and I will equalize.”
Samuel Colt.

�Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson