What is your best 100 grain 243 hunting load

My pet load is the 85 gr Speer SPBT at approx. 3000 fps. Loaded with IMR4831. Put down quite a few bucks with it,. I wouldn't shoot an elk with it but very good on deer.
 
Someone has commented that 4064 seems faster than it originally was. I believe that’s been confirmed elsewhere as well, notably in an article I read about jack O’Connor’s pet 270 load using enough 4064 to cause big trouble of one attempted to replicate it today. Same goes for h4831. It’s faster than the milsurp powder it started out as. And of course people have got into trouble interchanging imr and hodgdon powder (4350, 4831, 4198) when they’re not the same thing.
 
34.5 gr of IMR 4064 with 100 gr Nosler Partitions works very well for me. Shot 7 or 8 Mule deer with em. Most dropped instantly. A couple a step or 2.
 
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