Load development and test for 6.5 Creedmoor with 130 ELD match bullets. Varget, Big Game, and H4350

[@johnbuiatti366]

All my loads have been w H4350 or W760 using Hornady ELD Match projectiles. With 4350, 40.5g (and Ive tried from 38 to 40.8), I was recently able to get a 3-shot down to .338". Will move to 5 shot groups now that I have found a happy spot. Velocity was 2708 from a 26" barrel. Just recently found some Berger Hybrids 140g and look forward to trying those out. All brass was Hornady large rifle fired once then annealed which dropped my SD's by 1/2 to 1/3 of rounds without annealing. Just used a drill and propane torch counting to four. With better equipment, I pretty sure annealing would have resulted in more uniformity, but it's nice to try something out inexpensively before burning big bucks. Good luck!

[@EverydayReloadingandShooting]

@@johnbuiatti366 that's great John. a .338 group is fantastic. Berger does make good bullets. And that load data 40.5 is excellent for the 140 grain bullets. I use the same system for annealing. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for watching.

[@sealsrx7252]

On that 130gn with H4350 my rifle does good with 41.7gn, best groups (for my rifle chamber) comes when seating the bullet 2 thousands from the lands lapua brass, and cci200. 130 eldm does a little better on my rifle than 140eldm H4350 41.5gn also with 2 thousands from the lands same brass same primers. I did my fair share of load development to get these results. What I did different to your load development is I increased my powder loads by 0.3gns at a time Thanks for sharing your results.

[@EverydayReloadingandShooting]

Thanks for the comment, Seal. CCI200; that's a large rifle primer, right? My brass is all small rifle primer. Thanks for sharing your story. I may give that load to try with mine. Thanks for watching.

[@sealsrx7252]

@@EverydayReloadingandShooting your welcome, yes CCI 200 are large rifle primers nearly impossible to get from the store always sold out. I’m thinking on giving a try to small primers that are available more than the large.

[@EverydayReloadingandShooting]

I chose to use small rifle primer brass because I was already reloading .223. Just keeping it simple. Thanks again for watching

[@james_lessick892]

Fun stuff

[@nathanspurgeon7902]

Why do you think you had a flame sometimes but not others

[@EverydayReloadingandShooting]

Not sure unless maybe the camera didn't pick it up? Or possibly the fast forwarding skipped over it

[@knoxcrowe8289]

That pretty much sucks

[@EverydayReloadingandShooting]

Sometimes it's about finding out what doesn't work. Thanks for watching!