PBR,

To cut through the past three pages and get back to your question... I have both. Might I suggest you look at your hunting conditions. Brush? 45/70. Out in the open? 30/06. For simplicity, factory loads in both. I'm running factory 405's in the 45/70 for brushy whitetails. To stop a charging woodchuck out in a hay field I'm running Rem Managed Recoil 125's in the 06.

You could cheat a little by using 220's in the 30/06 for brush-busting and Black Hills cowboy loads in the 45/70 for big-bore woodchuck smashing.

Whatever, they're a ball.

Tom