Creedmoor Tune-up

[Bad Bob]

Still working on load development for 6.5 Creedmoor. This one, Savage Axis 40.0 Grains of H4350 W/ Hornaday 143 grain ELDX bullets. Shot at 10:30 in 7 ring was fouling shot after a bore-snake barrel clean.

http://i65.tinypic.com/140knsg.jpg

[SageRat Shooter]

bump up to about 42 gr. H4350 but do it in .2 grain or .5 grain increments... I'm running 43 gr. H4350 in Lapua brass shooting the same 143 ELD-X in my .260 rem... My seating depth is .004 off now, but started at .04 and just kept moving it closer.

[Robinhood]

Bad bob, is that a heavy barrel or a sporter? At what distance was that group shot?

[Bad Bob]

It is a plain vanilla Axis XP with standard trigger modified with recoil spring replaced to give 2# pull. Distance was 100 yards. FWIW, last 3 shots were all in 9 ring with 2 touching.

[icdbko32]

Should find a node right around the 41.3-41.7. for me my accuracy nodes are 41.5 for 140 ELD and 41.7 for 147 ELD

for seating depth try around .020-.030 OTL