Thread: 270 not liking ELD-X. What should I try?

I haven't had any luck getting my .270 Win to shoot the ELD-Xs well, in spite of hearing good things about them from a number of sources. Best accuracy was a 40mm group at 235m but that was at the starting load, and the groups opened up to 100mm and I hit pressure signs before getting to decent velocity.

After re-checking the max. seating depth, I figured I could reduce the jump by a fair bit. It didn't help accuracy, and if anything made the pressure worse.

Rifle is a Remington 700 SPS, 24" suppressed barrel. I'm using AR2213SC powder.

130 gr Berger VLDs went okay, but were also getting pressure signs at useful velocities (I'm looking to develop a 300m+ hunting load, so a light projectile would need to be humming). The 140 grain SSTs seem to give me a serviceable mix of accuracy & speed (2950fps, 70mm groups at 235m) but I really hoped the higher BC of the ELD-Xs would deliver better.

I'm wondering if I should try a slower-burning powder, play around with the seating depth some more or give up and try another projectile. I was also going up in 1 grain increments, so could try smaller increments in case there's a node somewhere in between.

Cheers guys - I'm still pretty new at this, so please excuse any rookie misunderstandings.