Thread: .204 Ruger

I have had one for quite a while, mine is a CZ varmint, Its ok, but disappointedly won't shoot 40g v-max, ok with 45g, soft point and 32g, v-max, and insn't anything special in accuracy, despite bedding and trigger work. 3/4 to 1" now. soon to be put up on consignment, along with several other varmint, small game rifles, likely end up with two sako's and two coopers, even my old sako vixen .222 might go, undecided, lots memories with it.

I have got a 20 vartarg in a cooper, and its pushing a 32g at 3750fps, with 12g less powder, fantastic accuracy, getting .250-.300 at 100m with five shots, shoots 40gs at 3400, very happy.
However the .204 brass won't go to waste, as just bought a 2nd cooper single shot, in 6x47 rem, brass, Redding competition dies, for a smoking deal, half what I paid, for my sako 75 .223 used.

Nothing wrong with the .204, one of the best, long range varmint calibers, not as versatile as the .223 or smaller 6mm, should an opportunity, for bigger game show up. and in my view, to expensive, noisy and gets too hot, too quick, for high volume, small game shooting, ( I am in Canada, often for months at a time, small game here is ground squirrels) have shot up to 700 in an afternoon. But a fine choice for sniping at rabbits and hares, at distance.