roninflag,

Not Old Crab, but I use 59.0 H4831SC in my NULA .30-06 with the 200 Partition. It has a 24" barrel and the load averages 2690 fps.

Still have a little bit of the High Energy 180 Trophy Bonded load you mention, and in the NULA it averages around 2940 fps, with decent accuracy. But Federal doesn't make anything like it anymore, partly because in a few rifles with tight barrels and/or chambers it was pretty warm. I know of a couple rifles where the load blew primers.


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