I respectfully disagree. Many of us have the resources and time to master just one rifle. We often ask a lot of it as a result.

I would suggest this is the market segment where the .30-06 reigns, with the .270, .280, and 7mm RM reasonable alternates.

I somehow managed for years with just one rifle, and the very caliber you denigrate here. A dozen or so deer, half-dozen pronghorns, countless prairie dogs, and three elk later, I added a .30-06 to the .243 that had served me well.

It's the rifleman, not the rifle.