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I have been staying in North Carolina helping a military son and his family, finally got to sneak away with my son,actually two sons, and oldest grandson to a shooting range this weekend. I had put together a custom Creedmoor for my youngest military son about 10 years ago and it's just been setting in the closet it has a hand-picked obermeyer cut rifle 8 twist, I already knew how accurate the rifle was, I had shot a 15 shot group with four different boxed ammos before I left Arkansas that group was 3/4 of an inch again, I was very impressed by a barrel that put four different loads from 120 to 140 grain and a 3/4 in group actually I've never seen that before ,I had pulled the scope off and packed it for the trip before we went to shoot Saturday morning ,we mounted an arkan scope on the rifle ,I bore-sighted it setting at the bench after two shots on 100 we were ready to go ,as my son settled into the rifle his groups went from around an inch to around a half inch real quick, he has become an expert shooter through experience in the military attending several long distance sniper schools even though he's not a sniper himself ,the range master was a nice young man and he was standing hovering watching the shoot we began a friendly conversation with him and of course he was a Creedmoor fanatic and had just gotten back from a long distance competition shoot with creedmoors, he began to rave about a seller's and belloit ammo that he and his group were shooting, my initial reaction was doubt and almost laughing because I'd never considered that ammo anything but plinking ammo, he could tell I didn't quite believe him so he went and got some of it as well as his $10,000 fancy Creed more rifle with everything but the kitchen sink on it, he handed my son some rounds and he fired a group with his fancy rifle it was about 3/4 of an inch my son sent one foul shot with the new powder load downrange and then proceeded to shoot a one whole group that group was better than any of the factory ELD 120 or 140, it was 140 grain Spitzer Full Metal Jacket again had I not been sitting there witnessing it I would never have believe it ,to those of you who shoot the Creedmoor I recommend you give that ammo a trial of course I'll probably wouldn't hunt with it but for accuracy planking and paperwork it was unbelievable!