Maybe this is or isn't a con but it takes the 30.06 about 20% or more powder to do only about 5% more performance wise, of what a .308 does. I hope I worded that right. I don't think that people are necessarily going away from the 30.06, I just think that there are new flavors of guns to try now days and people are giving some of them to go. But I think that most are finding that the 30.06 kills them just as dead as the new fandangled stuff does.