The results are in...

[tactical870]

It's a popularity contest, not a real world performance contest. The 30-06 is in every American hunter's closet including a bunch of folks who have never used anything else. Nothing else stood a chance.

That's where I keep my 30-06 while I'm out hunting with my 270.....

 

[blargon]

The .30-06 is a great, versatile cartridge, but hardly needed for whitetail. Well, kevlar whitetail maybe...

The ideal whitetail cartridge would be a non-magnum somewhere between 6mm and .277...

 

[220Swifty]

Them south Texas whitetails obviously swung the vote.