If I had to guess about the bullets, I would say the hunting version being the one he tested. I have read the post before but can't remember all the details. He resides over at "longrangeonly.com" now. Lot's of good info/reading over there also.
As far as altitude; I shoot in Eastern NC, 30-45 mins from the coast. My altitude is 45ft, according to what I can find and measure, I changed it in my ballistic app to 4500ft and 10000ft and it made little to no change, at least nothing I would worry about while dialing (45ft; 18.05MOA to get to 1000yds, 10000ft; 17.96MOA to 1k). That was using my 7mmRemMag with 169.5gn Wildcats at 3062fps. Not the 30 cal bullet but gives you an idea, I would think.