Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 22 Creedmoor

Who's running one and how are you loading for it? Powder, primers, brass and bullets...
Thank you.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...14138831/22-creedmoor-loads#Post14138831

Scenarshooter has some data in some of his 22 Creedmoor posts as well

Thank you.

What are you cooking up?

Picked up a Sako 591 action on a McMillan stock and am having a 1-7'' Proof barrel screwed on. If this is what I think its going to be, It will likely take the place of a 22-250AI and a stock 22-250.

I've got a 22" 8-twist and a 23" 7-twist. In the 8-twist I'm shooting 75gr ELD's @3450fps with H-4350, Alpha 22 Creedmoor brass and CCI Br-2's. Still working with the 7-twist but it's liking H-4831sc with 88gr Eld's, Alpha Brass and CCI Br-2's. Looks it should end up around 3250fps but I haven't finalized seating depth yet.......

After that I intend to find a 77gr LRX deer load for this season. I'll start with H-4350 and look for velocities between 3400-3450fps.......That load should be hell on deer!


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75 & 88 ELD's with 6 Creed Starline brass necked down. I hit pressure very early with Alpha 22 Creed SRP brass.

RL 23, RL 19, and H-4350.

23 and 19 gave alright groups but not fantastic, and I haven't got much work done with H-4350 yet.

I think I'm just going to concentrate on H-4350 for the time being.

Any idea what the neck clearance is in your chamber Dave?


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No I don't. I just had a RAR 22-250 1-8 twist rechambered.

Gotcha, ya that's what my 8 twist is also but I've had no problems with LRP Alpha 22 Creed brass....Not a bad way to fly for a boat and wheeler gun, IMO.


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Good stuff, thanks.

After reading the thread....The info posted is wondering into the 243 territory...

but the bullets that are available, are mainly plastic tipped match bullets...

so minus the fun of working a new cartridge that happens to be riding high on the Cool Factor circuit,
what does the 22 Creedmoor with a fast twist offer that a 243 doesn't?

'ceptin maybe a much shorter list of available bullets...

not knocking it, just academically I'm not seeing what it has over a 243..

I add this to that this question is coming from an owner of a 1 in 7 twist 22.250, with a 24 inch stainless Pac Nor Barrel..

yeah flat shooting but it didn't offer anything that would cause me to carry it afield vs one of the 243s...

( Cliff, not trying to rain on your thread here )

No worries, John. I'm afraid that I'm afflicted by the virus that causes looniness... I have a LH Sako 591 action that is sitting in a McMillan varminter stock and about to be screwed into it is a Proof Sendaro 24" 1-7" twist barrel-in 22 CM. No, I didn't need this caliber. I have lots that overlap it, both above and below but that didn't seem to be able to scratch the itch that loonies get.

Well Cliff, I understand that....

a 68 Z/28 would be very impractical also.... but I sure would love to have one....

and also, a 22 Greedmoor on a Sako 591 action would dramatically add to the Cool Factor in my book....

Then you won't throw me out on the street???

That's a Negative Ghostrider.....

Remember, I've got friends in low places anyway......

It me who might be thrown out the window into the street, or the mudhole on the dirt road...

I doubt that would happen. Regardless, you have a friend here.

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I ended up with 88ELD, 41 grains of RL23, 2.660".

Have only shot a coyote with it but it left a mean exit.

Interesting question - what does a 22 creedmoor offer over a 243?
Not much, but then there is no shortage of overlap in today's ballistic field. I like the case design of the creedmoor and think it is a good design.
If manufacturers ever get serious about pushing a 22-250 w a factory fast twist barrel, and start loading 22-250 with long bullets, there may not be as much experimentation on the fast 22 side of things.
And i guess it depends on what you want to do with it. I ran JP Rifles Blue Steel Ranch for over three years, and got to see a lot of different calibers come through there. The 22 Creed worked well at distance, but then so did their Valkyries, but that's another thread. As the gentleman noted above, it also works well in the hunting side but it is not exactly fur friendly lol.
I guess that's why there are multiple 6.5s, 6MMs, and 22's. We all seem to be looking for that extra " felt recoil, barrel life, terminal performance, case life, what ever"
The 22 Creed also works well out of several ARs I've seen or shot.

Thanks for weighing in Sanddog. You have experiences that many cannot match and I appreciate your insights.

Were you able to get a muzzle velocity on that load?

No I didn't. I loaded some up for deer season and dropped a head on facing doe with it, but I have not settled on a load yet.

This RAR is a strange rifle for me. It shoots almost everything right at 1-1.5 MOA, but doesn't seem to get tighter groups with any consistency. I have only shot 75, 80 and 88 eld's in it though.

Son's has a 22" 7 twist Bartlein. Shooting 88 eld with 40.7 H4350 and alpha brass at 3190 fps. Extremely accurate. Starting seeing pressure at 41.

Interesting update to this one. Was sighting in a new scope with a new lot of 88 ELD bullets after shooting up the old batch. Had chrono running and first 2 were a bit faster but still very accurate. Moved scope and fired third. Velocity spiked and blew primer out. Came home and measured oal with the new bullets. Looks like Hornady changed the nose profile and in the lands now at 2.648 vs 2.677. So new loads were jammed hard.

Going to pull a few, drop charges, seat deeper and work back up. Same lot of powder, same scale, all brass weighs same, same primers. Only difference was shape of the 88 eld between lots. Fortunately had 3 rings of steel to handle it. Not a fan of crap like that, first time in many many years.

Wow, that could have ended badly. Glad you weren't injured.

H4831sc and the 88 gr ELDM for me. Right at 3200 fps and better accuracy than I ever expected.

Doing "pest control" at a friends place this weekend and killed an aoudad at 720 yards with it, DRT.....

Good that nothing went completely south, but find it interesting that you blame Hornady instead of yourself for making an assumption. I don’t know how many times that JB has said on here that bullet companies make changes to bullets without saying a word.
You changed lots and didn’t take the time to check for differences. That’s on you not Hornady. Good lesson to be learned here.

95 gr SMK at 3300 fps and less than .25" all day long with RL26