When going all the way down to levels that Comrade Seafire is demonstrating I automatically employ 4198, 4759, RL-7 and switch to cast bullets. Heck, that level of performance represents what I usually shoot anyway. Moving up to full power loads is an aberration usually reserved for right before hunting season.
I've always viewed 4895 as my go-to powder for .30-06, for hunting ammo and for replicating the old government load in Springfields and Garands. I've been stuck in the 46-47 grains 4895 + 150-165 bullets level of performance for around five decades now. Why? Accuracy is a given, recoil isn't at the flinch-inducing level, and 2600-2700fps with a good cup-and-core bullet in that weight range will knock a deer ass-over-tin cups in the Appalachian playgrounds I've haunted since I was a kid. Besides that, it performed A-ok at Belleau Wood, Chateau Thierry, Bataan, Normandy, Guadalcanal, etc. etc.
