Wolf Killer: There is room under the tent for all cartridges. No one says you ONLY have to have a .30-06. It is OK to have rifles chambered in many cartridges. Notwithstanding, the .30-06 is a pretty handy deal. I'm sure you've heard the arguments. Let me just review the utility that the .30-06 provides to me.

I prefer my .25-06 for deer and antelope. I would prefer a .338 Winchester Magnum for elk (I'm going on my first elk hunt in mid-October and will take my .30-06). When I go out of state for hunting, however, I want to take a backup rifle in case something happens to the "go to" gun. What should I do? have two .25-06s? two .338's? I think one .30-06 suffices as a backup for all the hunting I do. Not perfect, perhaps, on these game animals -- elk, pronghorn, deer -- but entirely adequate to the task, if the shooter does his part. If I hada .270 for deer and antelope, some folks judge that this is a little light for elk and moose, and hence would be a poor backup rifle for those hunts.