RE: 30-06 Jack of all trades, Master of None.
This is a great country. One of the great things about it is that if you don't like the 30-06, you sure as 'H' don't need to own one.
The 30-06 is boring. There is no whiz bang magnum name tacked on it and it just goes out year after year for longer than any of us have been around and does what it was made to do. Kill Things. Is there better choices? Probably. You name a cartridge and I will name a better choice for something. For the one gun hunter, taking everything into consideration, the 30-06 will do the job about as well as any one rifle can. Heaven forbid that we be limited to one rifle. If I have several rifles, the 30-06 would need not be amoung them. However for just one, it would have to be the 30-06. No one gun can do it better.