I'm seeing a lot of hogwash online about the .30-06 cartridge being obsolete. Hogwash. The old Thirty Aught Six is an old cartridge, no doubt about that, but obsolete? Not likely.
It can still take all the game on the North American continent. There may be other cartridges that are better for a specific task, or more suited to specific game, but that doesn't make the old warhorse obsolete. It's proven itself over and over, and it is the cartridge that everyone compares against. It is a benchmark cartridge.
If I knew that I was going on a medium-to-large game hunt somewhere in North America, with no other inclination of where I would be, the old Savage 110 in .30-06 would go along, and I'd be neither under gunned nor second-guessing my choice. From deer in the thickets to moose in Alberta, the .30-06 would be just fine.
Obsolete, indeed.
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It also proved itself in WWII and Korea as a reliable , effective rifle.
I concur.
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