I own 3 6.5 creedmoors. A RPR a savage 10fcp sr and a kimber loghtweight hunter. My go to load for the RPR and the savage is Lapua brass CCI#450 41.2gr of H4350 with a 140gr RDF velocity is 2725fps SD's run from 4 to 7 and even had an ES of 1 and SD of 0 once but that was only a 3 shot group the load repeatably shoots sub 1/2 minute groups in both guns and shoots very well all the way out to 1150yds.
I am currently trying to develop an elk hunting load for the kimber it has a 22" barrell and Im trying 140gr accubonds with RL-16 powder the magazine on the kimber only allows me to load to 2.800" OAL I havent got a chance to shoot any yet but today when I was loading up a ladder test I found that at around 41.8gr of RL-16 I started hearing the powder crunch down when I was seating my bullets. Reading through this post I see a lot of you guys are using quite a bit more powder than that and I was wondering if you guys are just loading longer or are you just shooting compressed loads
