25 Creedmoor freebore advise

[jefo65]

Putting together a 25 Creed that'll spend it's entire life shooting 100-117gr pills. PTG's off the shelf reamer carries a .180 freebore compared to Blackjacks .115. Which direction would you folks go? Still undecided on the barrel as well,..toss up between a 1-8 vs a 1-9.
Thanks in advance

 

[KMart]

I have a 25x47L. The freebore that I settled on was .120 and it works well with 115 Bergers. For barrel twist, you may get by with a 1x10 but I would strongly recommend the 1x9.

In days past, I had a 25-06 with a 10 twist and it shot the 115 just ok. I had it rebarreled with a 9 twist and it shot much better.

 

[jefo65]

Thanks! I have a 1-9 blank coming from Carbonsix, reamer is coming from JSB, went with their standard specs and had the freebore bumped from .100 to .115. New seating stem along with .281-.282-.283 neck bushings are on the way, 200 pieces of alpha small primer brass with 25 creed headstamps in route and lots of H4831sc, H4350, RL17 and RL19 laying around. Really looking forward to putting this one together