I don't have a Creedmore so I just ordered one.

http://www.cabelas.com/product...NT-RIFLE/1994604.uts

I think you'll like it, and that's a great price. I just got an FCV in .204 and I like it a lot.

And I love your reasoning!

How accurate is your 204?

I'm only getting started developing loads for it, but it doesn't like the 32 VMax (5 different loads, generally at or slightly greater than 1 inch for 5 shot groups). A couple of 32 Nosler loads were a little tighter.

It seems to like the Berger 35 grain much better. It's shot right around 0.5-0.7 for several loads, and I have further options to explore with this bullet. All 5 shot groups.

For my FCV, I plan on moving up to the heavier bullets and see how they shoot. My guess is they'll do pretty well.

This is my 4th Savage rifle: I started with a Stevens 200 in .223, and it was so good I got an LRP in .243, then an LRPV (.223) and finally this one.

All have given me really good 5 shot groups. Once I get a rifle better than 0.7, I'm pretty happy with it, but each of these rifles have gotten me 0.55 or better from time to time.

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Originally posted by Slider:
How accurate is your 204?

UPDATE

Following on my last post, w/all groups 5 rounds at 100 yards.

The 32 gr Vmax still sucks.

The 35 Berger continues to impress: 22gr IMR 4198 produced a group measuring right at 0.3.

The Sierra 39 grain bullet shot 2 groups I like:

1) With 26 grains H 4895, it shot 0.85 . . . BUT . . . if you discard the one shot I goofed, it put 4 in a hole measuring 0.286.

2) With 27.5 grains Varget, the group measured 0.455.

The rifle did not like either of the two groups I shot using the Speer 39 grain bullet, one using H4895 the other using Varget.

FWIW.

I have had considerable success with Benchmark and Fed GM in the 204 with 32 vmax. I stopped development.

Slider, have you worked up a load yet for your Creedmoor?

No not yet. I have shot it ten times. The last two shots were 1/2" at 100 yards. I used Hornady factory 140 ELD M ammo.The ten shot group average muzzle velocity was 2,660.7 fps. I restocked it but have been waiting for a trigger guard I had to order for it.