Like many people today, I am running low on my usual powders.

I'm going to Africa next spring with my son in law (his first trip) and will be taking my 30-06 and his new Kimber Montana 30-06 for plains game. Going to be loading Nosler 180 ballistic tip and 180 Partitions

I know there are better powder choices but I have several pounds of 7828 ssc that I have used to great success in my 280 Rem with 160 gr Partitions

I'm doing load development now and will not have time in a couple of months so have to get it done now.

If you have used 7828 and can give me some ideas, I'd appreciate it

I have not used it, but you will find that it is way too slow for a 30-06 and velocities will be slow. I would load like black powder; stuff the case full. I am not recommending that you do that though. Work up loads just like for any other powder.
Have fun in Africa.

Hodgdon has 30-06 data with a 190 grain bullet and imr 7828. That should give you a good idea where to start.

I would use a heavier bullet (200 gr) and a magnum primer. I used up some h1000 a while back in the same fashion. Again, not the greatest accuracy/velocity/anything but it did achieve its purpose of slinging lead down range

Just for the heck of it, I ran this combo in Quickload. I do not like to publish load data in public, so check your PMs. It will be there shortly. As a teaser, it shows about 2800 fps.

IMR7828 SSC should do fine in an '06 with 180's or heavier. I haven't used it in that particular application, but I have used plenty of Surplus 4831 with a 180 Nosler for 2780 chronographed fps. In a number of other applications (.243/100, 270/130, .338/225) I've found that approximately 3% more of IMR7828SSC produces results very close to Surplus 4831. Since the SSC granules pack more densely in the case you can get that 3% more powder even when your 4831 load completely fills the case (as it does in the instance of the .30-06 with 180's).

My advice would be to load a couple of rounds with just a tad less of IMR7828SSC than the case will hold and if that load shows no pressures (which it won't), then put as much powder as you can comfortably seat a bullet over and you'll get about 100fps higher velocity than with factory 180's -- which should be plenty to take a wildebeest, oryx, or kudu.

Work up your loads with the less expensive Ballistic Tips (since they shoot in an identical fashion to their Accubond counterparts), then load the Accubonds for the actual hunt. I haven't found the Accubonds "too hard" for any game, and while the Ballistic Tips would probably do fine you might as well used the Accubonds for certainty.

I replaced my 4350 with 7828 ssc in my 340 Wby. What a difference. Good accuracy and fps of 3260 with 200 grain Noslers. Very happy, Optik1.