RE: need a gun to " fill the gap"
30-06.
I have
.223
25-06
.308
30-06
I had the .308 and my father in law was dying of cancer and gave me the 30-06. It has become one of my favorite guns it does everything pretty well. Got the 25-06 this year and just ordered the scope, haven' t even sighted it in. Just something different, really a person could get by with 22 LR, .223 and 30-06 for 95% of the situations in hunting. Here in the east, anything from 30-30 to 30-06 would pretty much cover it.