Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Why Do Folks Call the 30/06 Boring?

1 Garand and 1 turnbolt for High Power comp's, and 1 custom hunting rig for slaying dinner...still not boring

Of course it will....Eventually

Everything has it's day in the sun. Shooters were just as excited at one time about the latest flintlock as baby boomers are about the '06 as the current generation of shooters is about the Creedmoor. Folks get upset about it but they may as well be shouting at the tide.

What comes along next? Who knows. It's been said that nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. That's what makes predicting the next big thing usually little more than a guessing game. Widespread adoption of a new military round. Perhaps a new technology. Maybe a new shooting discipline catches on in popularity.

Whatever it is, at the end of the day it's just a piece of brass. No need for people to lose sleep over different shapes of metal

It may be just a piece of brass, but a segment of the board got worked up over it. Some still are. Until the 30 Blammer arrives and they will chase that butterfly.

I wonder how the Short and Super Short crowd are these days? Or the Lazzeronian Church? The Compact Magnum folks? There's a few left. I wish them well.

At least it keeps them out of the bars. 😄

Mebbe shoulda gone one of those routes 'cause that's all that's left on the store shelves....

My WSMs and WSSMs are working fine, thank you.

To answer the OP's original question, maybe they just don't know any better.
Paul B.

When your performance becomes the standard for comparison, you become "boring."

The 30-06 is the baseline reference cartridge, plain and simple.

Because it's been around for over a century and just works, plain and simple.

My only full-power rifle is a .270 so I can't speak from personal experience, but the variety of .308 projectiles available, coupled with the insensitivity of manual actions to varying loads makes it far from boring in my eyes.

My Weatherby has never shot any factory ammo since I got it either. I find it easy to load for.

the 30-06 just might be needed here in America ? again

Yeah, its needed every Fall in the hunting woods from what I see. Where have you been?

I was one of the guilty ones. Boring, always something better. Only owned one a Browning Bar for a short period of time. Took it out to WY to coyote hunt with a buddy in January during a arctic cold front many years ago. My lack of experience with keeping that auto action properly lubricated for sub arctic conditions -20F caused me to be with a froze up rifle all day long. Not the cartridges fault. Fast forward to today. I just had a full blown custom rifle built, had a choice of any caliber, it’s a 30.06.