Range Report Hornady precision hunter hard bolt lift?

[ALShooter]

Has anyone experienced this with the 143g 6.5 creed factory ammo? I fired 3 rounds with this ammo just to test and all three had a heavy bolt lift with swipe marks on the brass in my savage 10ba stealth?

​​​​​​I didn't see any large Headspace jumps from loaded ammo vs fired on the three cases when measuring. Maybe 1-2 thousandths. Same as my reloads.
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I took 140g eld's up to slightly flattened primers (flirting around 2800 fps with h4350) with my reloads and still didn't get heavy bolt lift?

 

[Trigger Monkey]

I shot that stuff through two rifles and I didn't have any issues like that, cycling was pretty smooth. The first rifle was a stock Tikka T3X CTR and the other a custom Remington 700.

 

[ALShooter]

Thanks!

I'll do some more testing and may have to let Hornady know somethings wacky with the lot.

 

[Mr. Z]

The factory 140 eldm I ran through my cheap chrony read as follows at 53F and -43 DA cold bore
2773
2780
2777
2773
2831
2804
2850
2842
2861
2854
2870
2903
2877
And so on... everything over ~2860 lead to heavy bolt lift on defiance deviant 20 thousands from lands. These were all the first gen eldm with translucent red meplat out of the same box. I've since moved to Prime 130s and the issue has ceased. Good luck

 

[Rob01]

You might want to check your OAL to lands as savages are known to have short chambers at times and if you are jammed into the lands then you will get the issues you speak about.

 

[ALShooter]

You might want to check your OAL to lands as savages are known to have short chambers at times and if you are jammed into the lands then you will get the issues you speak about.

Bto with comparator and 143 Eldx is 2.262 touching lands.
Hornady ammo measures 2.163 bto. So 0.099 off lands.

The rifle does have a tight throat, but it doesn't seem to make a difference with my reloads.