Thread: Reloading for 6.5 Creed & 300WM - Confirming Research

Hi,
The 300 WM is one of my favourites. Love shooting mine, also a Tikka, but T3X.
The ELD-X 178 gn is one of my standard loads although for serious hunting ( my description ) I always shoot Barnes TTSX 180 gn. I find the ELD-X kills both bloody well and sometimes poorly which I think relates to bullet construction ( couldn't possibly be my shooting skills ) but it is very accurate and flat shooting in my rifle. I went through a bit of load development to arrive at my standard loads. My top powder is RL26 closely followed by AR2213sc and a bit further down in third place is AR2217. As the 300WM was originally planned around a 180 gn bullet at about 3000fps that is the performance I tried to achieve with handloads. RL26 and AR2213sc enabled me to reach the desired MVs while AR2217 maxed at a lower top MV but with quite good accuracy. Most of my most recent 300WM shooting has been with a load using AR2213sc as ( luckily ) I had stocked up and have it to burn. The more I shoot it the more I like this propellent. One good thing I found with AR2213sc, in both 300WM and other calibres, is that I always reach max case fill before reaching the overpressure zone and it's nice to have that safety feature when working up loads.
Best of luck finding the components you want. Hope you get some great shooting with your own loads.