Thread: Loading for a 22 Creedmoor

Originally Posted by WildBrad

Aight folks.

I've gone and bought myself a Sako 22 Creedmoor that was on trade me for some time and need to start loading for it.
Thanks to a legend of a mate I have my hands on some Alpha Brass, primers and a set of dies.
Load data the previous owner was using was the 80gn ELDM and H4350 at 42.3gn.

So the question was to see what other loads any of the folks out there are running. Planning to stick with the ELDM ut stepping up to the 88gn simply as its readily available at the moment. What other powder options are people using with good results? I currently don't use any H4350 or 2209 in any of my other loading and it's not the easiest stuff to find these days lol.

Any advise is very much welcomed and interested to see what others are running . Main purpose will be for culling roos and deer.
Can't wait to get her up and running, herd good things about the 22 creed.

4350/2209 seems is probably the most common powder used as basically anything that goes well in a 6.5CR goes well in a 22CR. Yanks tend to use likes of Varget/2208 for lighter end of spectrum loads 60s-75's to H1000 at the other end with heavier 95's fairly common. Staball, H4831SC you name, so many different powders seem to work. My pet load is 40.7gr RL16 behind the 88's.

Started out with RL26 and you get some hotrod performance and also accuracy but had problems with carbon ring build up shooting shorter barrel suppressed, longer unsuppressed would be ok . Super Performance seemed to look promising with the 95 SMK also but just didn't follow up on. 88's are good and bought a heap when were only 45c each and great all rounder, they seem to hit animals quite hard.