While I am more of a 6.5 guy. I have a couple of 300 Win Mags, I bought long ago, when I thought more horse power was never a bad idea...
then I got older and wiser...
But then with cast bullet manuals, I've loaded my 300s with equivalents of the 30/30 using Unique and 150 SPs, at 2000 fps, 22 grains of a bulky powder and pretty low recoil
up to 300 Weatherby Equivalent using H 1000...
From a 300 Savage equivalent to a 30/06 equiv.... 4198 and 3031 either would work nicely to accomplish that... or RL 7...
just bringing up some more possibilities.....
Great idea. The ranger recently sent me his 300 Win Mag Ruger No. 1 as a gift for my son Robert who is now 22 and panting to go elk hunting. That might be a way for him to get some experience with it before we seek a tag.
Norm
