My apologies if this is a topic already done. I'm hoping for a lively discussion, and to hopefully learn some things.
While growing up as a kid I read Clay Harvey's book Popular Sporting Rifle Cartridges. In this book there is a chapter called Selecting the All Around Ceterfire Cartridge. In which he tackles the question which rifle caliber performs the most services for the money? The idea being if you could only own one rifle to service you from varmints, up through elk/moose which would it be? When the book published in 1984 Mr. Harvey came to the conclusion that the .30-06 was the best all around centerfire rifle cartridge.
My question is would one come to a different conclusion today considering since then we’ve seen multiple wildcats become standardized, the advent of the Short Magnums, and the development of new bullets such as the single alloy line from Barnes? Has the .30-06 been dethroned in the last 30 years?
If you had to limit yourself to one rifle cartridge, which one would it be, and why?
While growing up as a kid I read Clay Harvey's book Popular Sporting Rifle Cartridges. In this book there is a chapter called Selecting the All Around Ceterfire Cartridge. In which he tackles the question which rifle caliber performs the most services for the money? The idea being if you could only own one rifle to service you from varmints, up through elk/moose which would it be? When the book published in 1984 Mr. Harvey came to the conclusion that the .30-06 was the best all around centerfire rifle cartridge.
My question is would one come to a different conclusion today considering since then we’ve seen multiple wildcats become standardized, the advent of the Short Magnums, and the development of new bullets such as the single alloy line from Barnes? Has the .30-06 been dethroned in the last 30 years?
If you had to limit yourself to one rifle cartridge, which one would it be, and why?