25 Creedmoor Ammo — Every Factory Load and Its Ballistics (2026)

The 25 Creedmoor is the first SAAMI-accepted quarter-bore built around modern low-drag bullets, and it is a deer cartridge that happens to be very good at reaching a long way.

It hits harder at 500 yards than anything else on this site. The 128 grain Precision Hunter is still carrying 1,333 foot-pounds out there. For comparison, the best .223 load manages 431.

Four factory loads. One is a varmint load — and it is a genuinely good one.

The loads

Brand	Load	Grain	Bullet	Application	Test barrel	Muzzle	300 yd	500 yd	Muzzle energy	500 yd energy	Drop at 500
Hornady	V-Match	95	ELD-VT	Varmint	24”	3,250	2,606	2,225	2,228	1,044	-32.9”
Hornady	Superformance §	112	CX	Hunting	24”	3,150	2,600	2,269	2,467	1,280	-33.4”
Hornady	Precision Hunter	128	ELD-X	Hunting	24”	2,850	2,427	2,166	2,308	1,333	-39.2”
Hornady	Match	134	ELD Match	Match	24”	2,800	2,389	2,135	2,333	1,356	-40.6”

What that means for coyotes

The 95 grain V-Match, without hesitation. It is the fastest load in the cartridge at 3,250 feet per second, the flattest at every distance, and the only one built to come apart rather than drive through.

But be honest about what you are carrying. This is a deer rifle’s cartridge. Even the varmint load arrives at 500 yards with 1,044 foot-pounds — more than twice what a .223 delivers, and far more than a coyote requires. If your shots are inside 300 yards and you care about hides, a .22 centerfire does the job with less blast, less recoil and cheaper ammunition — the 22 Creedmoor is the closest thing to this cartridge in a smaller bore.

Where the 25 Creedmoor earns its place is the open country where 400 and 500 yard shots are normal, and where the wind is the thing that beats you. That is what the extra weight and diameter buy.

The full chart

Load	Grain	Bullet	Application	Muzzle	100	200	300	400	500	Muzzle energy	100	200	300	400	500	Zero	100	300	400	500
Hornady V-Match	95	ELD-VT	Varmint	3,250	3,024	2,810	2,606	2,411	2,225	2,228	1,929	1,665	1,432	1,226	1,044	-1.5	1.2	-5.6	-16.2	-32.9
Hornady Superformance §	112	CX	Hunting	3,150	2,958	2,775	2,600	2,431	2,269	2,467	2,176	1,915	1,681	1,470	1,280	-1.5	1.2	-5.7	—	-33.4
Hornady Precision Hunter	128	ELD-X	Hunting	2,850	2,704	2,563	2,427	2,294	2,166	2,308	2,078	1,868	1,674	1,496	1,333	-1.5	1.6	-6.9	-19.8	-39.2
Hornady Match	134	ELD Match	Match	2,800	2,659	2,522	2,389	2,260	2,135	2,333	2,103	1,892	1,698	1,520	1,356	-1.5	1.7	-7.2	-20.5	-40.6

Notes on the data

Every figure is Hornady’s published one. Sources: Hornady 25 Creedmoor and the product pages for 95 gr ELD-VT, 112 gr CX, 128 gr ELD-X and 134 gr ELD Match.

§ One published figure is wrong, and it is not a transcription error at this end. Hornady’s page for the 112 grain CX prints its 400 yard trajectory as −9.3 inches, sitting between −5.7 at 300 and −33.4 at 500. A bullet cannot fall four inches over one hundred yards and then twenty-four over the next. The 95 grain load, which shoots almost identically, reads −16.2 at 400 — which is roughly where the 112 belongs.

The cell is left empty rather than corrected, because publishing my arithmetic in a column labeled as the manufacturer’s figures is the thing this table exists not to do. Hornady has been told. Every other number in that row is consistent and is shown.

Hornady’s own cartridge page lists three loads and misses the fourth. The 95 grain V-Match — the only varmint load in the cartridge — appears on the individual product pages but not on the cartridge landing page. If you searched the obvious place, you would conclude the 25 Creedmoor has no varmint offering at all.

No ballistic coefficients, for the same reason as the other caliber pages: Hornady publishes BC on the bullet pages rather than the ammunition pages these velocities came from.

Know a load that should be here? Tell me and I will add it.