Reloading for the .204

[scooterman27006]

at last at last ok if you have read all my other post on my experience with 204 ruger in 3 different guns/barrels - an encore barrel and a rem adl didnt have much luck but my dad and i bought a ruger 77 varmint in 204 caliber and i have tried several powders primers loads bullets and the combination that lead the best group in this 77 is : 28.5 gr of varget with a 40 gr berger using 205 m primers and 2.275 case overall length - at a 100 yrds you can cover it with a dime easily and it will do it with 3 five shot groups so this is a keeper i believe and i will say this --cci br primers showed very similiar results with 28 gr varget but didnt group as tight but very close - also i will add i never got much of a group until i really started up the higher end of the powder levels - im not sure but 28.5 is not compressed but close and in this gun the brass needs to be 1.84 and no more - needless to say i am going to back up and retry the encore barrel with higher powder and 40 gr - none of these guns would shoot the 50 gr in any bullet and i read somewhere that 50 would not shoot in these 204 barrels - I sure hope this helps someone that is trying to find a load