25 Creedmoor (Help Please)

[Flea21]

I have one being built at LongRifles currently. That being said, I want to find a good source to do some reloading for thiis round.

Unfortunately, its not in quickload or any of the manuals I have either.

Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

 

[Beruisis]

I'd staet with the 250 Savage A.I. or the 6mm Creedmoor.

 

[Flea21]

I'd staet with the 250 Savage A.I. or the 6mm Creedmoor.

I have a 25 CM already in the works. I didn't ask opinions of what to build... I asked what is a good point of reference for reloading this round.

 

[358WCF]

There's a thread on 24hcf. A guy built one & really likes it. Long read with the usual extra stuff.

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[Edd]

I have a 25 CM already in the works. I didn't ask opinions of what to build... I asked what is a good point of reference for reloading this round.

He wasn't giving you advice on what to build. He was giving you cartridges to look at for load data.

A 250 Savage AI is almost identical to a 25 Creedmoor. A 6mm Creedmoor with the same bullet weight as a 25 will be a higher pressure cartridge and a good reference point.

 

[Flea21]

He wasn't giving you advice on what to build. He was giving you cartridges to look at for load data.

A 250 Savage AI is almost identical to a 25 Creedmoor. A 6mm Creedmoor with the same bullet weight as a 25 will be a higher pressure cartridge and a good reference point.

Oh, my apologies.. i thought he meant to go a different direction.

 

[Stevo86]

My load is 42.5 grain H4350 and that puts me at 2880 fps. 131 ace in alpha SRP with CCI 450. Start lower and work up. Easy round to load for.

 

[alphapygmy]

I'm running 41.0 H4350 in Peterson SRP with Fed 205 primers and the 131 ACE. 2850ish in my 26"barrel.
I did a little with RL16 up to 41.0 but the 4350 did better overall in my rifle.

 

[LoanHarvey]

There is also a FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/265406700968413

 

[SweaterDood]

Scroll down to the June 2018 post for Load data. This is with the 131 Ace bullet from Blackjack’s testing.

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[Zero333]

In Quickload you can use .250 Ack Imp, and you'll get the same results.
Both cases have the same H2O capacity (51gr).
Only difference is 0.008" in case length, COAL and max PSI which all that you can change.

 

[ebb]

Why not just let Chad give you some ideas of what works good for him. This may not be the first 25 creed for him.

 

[c_bass16]

My barrel gets here tomorrow and I've got 135 bergers to shoot in a 25" pipe (seemed logical to make a 25Creed at 25")
Chad does great work, he built my 6x284 that is going to get re-piped to a 25x284 one of these days.

 

[284winner]

My barrel gets here tomorrow and I've got 135 bergers to shoot in a 25" pipe (seemed logical to make a 25Creed at 25")
Chad does great work, he built my 6x284 that is going to get re-piped to a 25x284 one of these days.

You'll love the 25-284.

 

[AWS]

25 Creedmoor, should have called it the 25 Costmore. One of the dumbest ideas I've heard yet. Necking a cartridge down .007 and then pouring a bucket of money into it and it won't do anything a 257 Roberts will do.

I'm a .257 fan having own a number of 250-3000, a couple 257R's and a 25-204. Now the 25-204 is interesting as it will duplicate original 250-3000 and 257 R ballistics in a small bolt-face rifle. As far as I know I built the first one in 2005 and it works on really big deer.

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[AckleymanII]

+1

 

[284winner]

25 Creedmoor, should have called it the 25 Costmore. One of the dumbest ideas I've heard yet. Necking a cartridge down .007 and then pouring a bucket of money into it and it won't do anything a 257 Roberts will do.

I'm a .257 fan having own a number of 250-3000, a couple 257R's and a 25-204. Now the 25-204 is interesting as it will duplicate original 250-3000 and 257 R ballistics in a small bolt-face rifle. As far as I know I built the first one in 2005 and it works on really big deer.

WI public land Whitetail

Oh I don't know about the costmoor part. I just loaded and shot around 60 rounds of 338 LM Improved rounds last week. At around 5.00 per round, the CM seems like a helluva discounted round to load and shoot. Hope my info helps you feel better about shooting the creedmoor. What really bothers me is that it now costs more to load your own than purchasing factory ammo.

 

[3Ackleys]

25 Creedmoor, should have called it the 25 Costmore. One of the dumbest ideas I've heard yet. Necking a cartridge down .007 and then pouring a bucket of money into it and it won't do anything a 257 Roberts will do.

I'm a .257 fan having own a number of 250-3000, a couple 257R's and a 25-204. Now the 25-204 is interesting as it will duplicate original 250-3000 and 257 R ballistics in a small bolt-face rifle. As far as I know I built the first one in 2005 and it works on really big deer.

WI public land Whitetail

You don't need to neck down brass for a 25 creed. Peterson and Alpha make it. Or you can neck down/up ADG or Lapua 6 & 6.5 Creed brass. All 4 options are way better brass than is avail. for the 257 Roberts.
The OP is having a custom rifle built so "pouring money" has already left the station, might as well use good brass.

 

[AWS]

So, what does a 25 Creedmoor get you for the investment that a readily available factory round won't accomplish? Being bracketed by the 6mm and 6.5 both with proven target and hunting bullets and data, it seems an exercise in impractability. Like every .25 caliber it will die a slow death after the new wears off with just a few Quarter-bore fanatics keeping it alive.

 

[SweaterDood]

So, what does a 25 Creedmoor get you for the investment that a readily available factory round won't accomplish? Being bracketed by the 6mm and 6.5 both with proven target and hunting bullets and data, it seems an exercise in impractability. Like every .25 caliber it will die a slow death after the new wears off with just a few Quarter-bore fanatics keeping it alive.

Better ballistics than both the 6mm and 6.5mm version, less recoil than the 6.5mm, absolute minimum Power Factor for NRL Hunter (no 6mm round can make this within reason), and there are proven hunting and target bullets for the .257” now with Berger and Blackjack offerings in the 131-135gr class. There was never a real shortage of hunting or short range target bullets for the .257”, the main issue there is that 6mm is the minimum diameter for BR classes, therefor the minimized recoil and lack of a Power Factor requirement led to making the 6mm the uncontested king of SRBR.

We reload, who cares about factory offerings. Worst case you can buy factory 6.5CM, pull the bullets, refill the case with the same powder charge it came with, run it through a 25CM FL die and seat a better bullet.

It’s a custom rifle, buy enough components for the life of the barrel. If the cartridge is dead in a few years, buy a new barrel. Why do so many people choose to be butthurt about somebody else’s build?