SAAMI has approved 25 Creedmoor (Hornady)

[PKR]

Yes, that’s what I did, except I use 25cm brass.



I really like my 25cm. Shooting 134 eldm at 2730-2740 has been an easy button. Low recoil, low wind drift, less drop than an 6.5cm, extremely accurate. I’ve been highly impressed with it.

What length barrel? If ya don’t mind

 

[PKR]

I was looking at this as an Option… but WTO up the road is releasing factory brass for the 25 SAW this summer….

And then there’s the 25-7PRC

All the while my current 6.5cm is plenty capable for anything I do so it’s a non issue for another year or 2 til it’s time for a new barrel

I also looked at their 25 SAW (right down the road as well) but being that I’m not really at a “reloading stage” with a busy schedule I’m leaning to the 25 creed or 6 creed.

Also have a 6.5 & a 308 that are great guns.

 

[Pickettpuncher]

What length barrel? If ya don’t mind

20” PBB. Scythe or nomad ti xc suppressor h4350

 

[PKR]

20” PBB. Scythe or nomad ti xc suppressor h4350

Nice , I was thinking a 20” as well and hoping for around 2700 with 134’s

 

[Pickettpuncher]

Nice , I was thinking a 20” as well and hoping for around 2700 with 134’s

I started out around 2620 when I first got the barrel. I probably have 400 rounds thru it now.

 

[Pilsner]

Humans generally don't like change!

It's the experimenters and early adopters that help move the needle.

What cracks me up is someone that is against say the 7 Backcountry, but support something more obscure. Industry people have hinted that more high pressure designs are coming, so it'll be interesting to see if it actually happens and whether the naysayers will backtrack their stance.

I was somewhat early to adopt Tikkas, back when people said that they felt cheap and plasticky. Tikka was a joke back then - it was too new and different, to the American view of what a rifle should be. Many of those naysayers are now the biggest fans of Tikkas! I don't own any now. Funny, how it works out!

The firearms industry is still operating in the stone age in many ways, so I'm all for new ideas. The market then determines what is sustainable, and the cycle repeats with new ideas from those not afraid of change.

That said, the 25 Creedmoor is so dang close to the old 250 / 250AI that it's just a refresh, but with modern pressure and twist.

I'd be cool with a moderate performance, fast-twist, quarter-bore for medium range, paired with a fast .277 for long+ ranges. A 7mm 180gr is a beast for LR, but that's a lot of recoil. Assuming appropriate bullets available.

Tyler Freel did an entire article and podcast episode on how the Fudd's of the 1920's thought about the then-new 270 Win. He copy and pasted folks b!tching about the 6.5 Creedmor over the old folks complaints about it and it was comedy gold. Some of the complaints were literal word-for-word the same.
The more things change, the more people stay the same.

 

[Quandary]

Absolutely no difference to the bah humbug people that say my 7 rem mag and 300 win mag will do everything that stupid 7PRC and 300PRC will do........yadda, yadda, yadda. They sure won't with a SAAMI spec chamber!

 

[Pilsner]

as I have often said: I am often wrong but I am never uncertain. My exwife was the same way x 2.