Yeap, 300 mag, 338 rule the real HB roost up top.
Germain Salazar was the last champion of the 30-06.
Eventually my brother came across a Remington that was in a Heavier barrel in 30-06, the lead was so long you could only shoot ELD bullets in it.
Trigger sucked so he replaced it. Another $100 something.
I had seen pictures of the Thumbhole Savage and was able to track one down and buy it. While its listed as a light weight stock vs the heavyweight squarer targets, its my favorite stock.
Its been a lot of fun, trigger got changed spring in it and its a Varmint type now.
Funny to have seen the worlds finest target cartridge for so long loose out to 308, then 6.5 and the bigger magnums for the 10000+ yard sniper thing.
Realty is that an 06 would match a 300 WM to any realistic hunting range and only snipers and 2000 yard shooters would benefit from it way out there.
I saw a recreation of the longest kill shot (50 caliber I think). He took 3 or 4 whacks at the guy before he hit him. Rather than hit the dirt of dive to cover they stand there looking around trying to figure out where its coming from!
Probably should amend the record for the longest tone shot kill.
Well I ramble, one of those nice lazy 40 degree afternoons we see from time to time.