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When I first moved to Wyoming I was shooting a 30-06 that I had purposely loaded to around 2850 fps. Hunting where I did in Texas I didn't see any reason for any more speed and when the oilfield called I took that rifle and 120 or so loads topped with the 150 grain Speer Hotcor. I took everything from coyotes to elk with that round, in an impressive string of one shot kills. I mostly used that load except I switched to 180 grain Speer Hotcors and Nosler Partitions for elk. This went on into the mid 90's. I usually load my 308 to pretty close to 2850 fps with 150's today more or less retiring the old 30-06 to backup status simply because in my old age I like lighter rifles and my main deer rifles are 7-08 and 308 now. The gist of all this is I would if I had to use the 150 grain Speer Hotcor from now on out it would serve me perfectly. But then so would just about any other good 150 grain bullet.