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Ron, you might want to try some Accurate 2700 in your '06 with the Dillon powder measure. I found it to be excellent with 150 gr bullets back when I had my '06. Other powders that might work well with the Dillon powder measure and your '06 would be Ramshot Big Game and Hunter. If I was wanting to load heavier bullets in an '06 and didn't want to weigh each charge, I would try Hunter first, followed by Big Game and Accurate 2700. All of them flow great through my RCBS Uniflow powder measure and should work well in the '06. I always weigh and trickle charges when using extruded (stick) powders. Even Varget and Accurate 2015 get weighed as I don't trust anything but ball powders in a measure like the Dillon or the Uniflow.So I finally had time and somewhat decent weather(in between snow/sleet/hail/rain storms today) to get out the chrono and test the .30-06 I loaded with the Superformance powder. The load was 59grs with a 180gr spbt. The average fps ended up at 2622 which is almost identical to the Remington factory loads I have. My H-4350 loads with the same bullet were at 57gr and just over 100fps faster on average. H-4350 is virtually identical in price and using 2gr less per round and getting over 100fps more it's probably what I will stick with once I can find it in larger quantities again. Accuracy seems identical so that is not an issue. I still have some Varget and CFE223 to load some 165gr bullets with and will also compare them with the 4350 and superformance to see if there's much of a difference. The Superformance does meter a whole lot better than the 4350 and should probably work fine with the Dillon powder measure compared to the 4350 which does not work worth a damn with the Dillon measure.
I do find it interesting that Hogdon is claiming that Superformance gives 100-200fps higher velocities over other powders with the same loads as this is obviously not the case at least for me anyway.
Ron