I personally only shoot 120's and the heavies (160's & 175's) in mine and skip all the bs in between. In my old Savage, it was easy to get 3500fps with 120's using a full case of RL22 or Magpro. Same powders along with H870 gave 3000fps +/- with 160's and H870/US869 was all I ever used with the 175's @ about 2900fps. Eventually I settled on just two bullets, the 120 Barnes X (all versions) for deer and like game, and 160 Accubonds for anything bigger that I still have yet to get a chance to hunt.
