Today, the 25th of April, 2025, the 25 Creedmoor cartridge is officially born.

Now, this is kind of a cool evolution of the Creedmoors, folks.

And, you know, I can hear some of you in the background saying, geez, we don't need another Creedmoor cartridge, right?

And maybe even saying, we don't need another Creedmoor cartridge, right? And maybe even saying, we don't need another quarterboard cartridge.

I mean, we've got the 255 Savage, also known as the, you know, the 253,000 Savage,

which was the first of all the cartridges to break 3,000 feet per second,

used an 87 grain bullet and was touted as a good deer cartridge.

We've got the classic 257 Roberts, wonderful quarter-bore mild cartridge, that some might think

the 25 Creedmoor is attempting to replace. We've got the fantastic 25-06 that is such a go-to for serious

pronghorn antelope hunters. And of course, we've got the Hot Rod 257 Weatherby that has always

generated more velocity than any other quarterboard cartridge, and to this day remains kind of that elite

wrong-worn hunters-type cartridge. Well, we have a Creedmoor quarter-bore now, and we're going to

talk about it today. This is the story behind it and how it compares to all the other Creedmoor cartridges.

Welcome to the show today, folks.

I'm Joseph von Benedict, and you're listening to the Backcountry Hunting podcast.

Now, the 25 Creedmoor has kind of an interesting backstory.

It was really held back by projectile development. For a long, long time, all of the

quarterboard cartridges, those with a bore diameter of 0.257, were rifled with a relatively slow

twist rate, just like some of the 30 calibers and so forth. In the past, they had a one in 10 or even

frequently a 1 in 12 twist rate that wouldn't stabilize long bullets. When you can't stabilize

long bullets, you can't stabilize bullets with high ballistic coefficients. Those really long,

stretched out super aerodynamic bullets that have really come to be

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