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.30-06 AI is to. 30-06 as .35 Brown-Whelen is to. 35 Whelen. In other words no appreciable gain. Nowdays it is hard to find something that really buys you an advantage over a factory cartridge or even rifle for that matter. To me unless it's a 350 fps gain or so, honestly, why bother?
Because I can already get a bit over 2800 fps with a 180 gr bullet out of my 06. I can do it safely, and you won't get that out of a factory loaded cartridge. I have not tried the new Superformance Hornady stuff, but their older high energy loadings did nothing in my gun... 200 fps more would make it everything the 300win mag is, but a lot cooler!