One of the loads used in my .338 back when I was hunting with it a lot was the 200-grain Speer Hot-Cor and 60 grains of IMR4895. This got around 2700 fps at the muzzle and knocked the snot out of whitetails, but also shot to exactly the same place at 100 yards as my handloads with the 250-grain Partition, also at about 2700.
I used the 250 Partition load up in the mountains where elk lived (and maybe even a grump grizzly), and used the Speer down in the riverbottoms where whitetails lived. Didn't see any reason to shoot deer with expensive 250-grain bullets and still don't, the reason I used a similar pair of loads these days, though the 200-grain bullet and the powder are different. The Speer and 4895 would still work, though.
