If you go to buy ammo during an ammo shortage, there will probably still be a selection of .30-'06. If you reload, there is plenty of Lake City brass, which is excellent stuff. And you can load a 125 grain bullet at maybe 1600 fps with Trail Boss (for no-recoil trigger time), a 150 gr. bullet at 2400 fps with a 75% load of H4895 (for deer out to 300 yds), or a 180 gr bullet going plenty fast to take elk/whatever. And the mil surp ammo is cheap plinking so long as it is available.