RE: Best all around gun for big game
I'd take the old '06 hands down. More commercially loaded ammo than any other caliber. Handloaders dream. More bullet selection than Carter has liver pills. 50 bucks and a competent gunsmith, the '06 can become the Ackley Improved. Turning the ol '06 into a .300 H&H., yet you can still fire standard 30-06 ammo!! I have a custom rfle in 30-06 Ackley improved, would not trade it for my wife......well something like that. Even Col. Craig Boddington (Guns & Ammo Writer) states this as his one gun favorite. Besides, I have always preferred the sectional density of the .30 over the .284 bullet. Lots of room for argument here. What do you other guys think?