Hello Phantom,
I have a 30-06 in remington mod 700 and it is true it is an awsome all around cartridge. I hunted for many years with it. Then I saw an article in Buckmaster about the Remington Mod 7 chambered in the .260 Panther. Many years later I have still yet managed to hunt with my -06 again. Everytime I reach for the -06 I end up with the .260 in my hand. It is lite, easy to wield in a treestand, and it really does work very well with younger hunters and women. Now I am not a small bodied hunter and I still enjoy the Mod 7 Remington in Stainless Steel. The Bullet itself has more sectional density than an -06 and it is devistating to deer. So far with the rifle I have taken a 9, five 8's and an 11ptr with the latest 8 yesterday.

One advantage of the .260 with deer is that the cartridge is not so over powered that the bullet expends if not all, most of its energy inside the animal. The deer I shot yesterday was shot at 50 yards coming down a bank into a mountainside ravine. The pointed softpoint corelocked bullet liquified the lungs and the heart. I had to rake what was left out of the carcus. It is an awsome round worth a look. Good luck and good hunting