Mauser-06, I totally agree with you.....however I don' t consider deer to be " big game" .....they' re " big varmints" at the best.

It don' t take a .30-06 to adequately harvest a whitetail.....it don' t take anything remotely as powerful as that or anything as hi-teck as a Swift A-Frame.

The game changes when the game starts to get bigger and more expensive.

I can go deer hunting for a lot less than $50......elk hunting is a helluva lot more than that.....I' d vote for power and bonded bullets for that hunt. The old ' 06 is as good as ever in that respect.