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powder for a .204 in the winter? #9388578 12/03/14 Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 830 Upstate NY mailmanmark OP Campfire Regular OP mailmanmark Campfire Regular Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 830 Upstate NY What powder do you find the most consistent when the mercury drops? Right now my goto loads are with CFE223.... scary accurate... Thank you...

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? mailmanmark #9388642 12/03/14 Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 22,897 Kiowa/Deer Trail, Colorado huntsman22 Campfire Ranger huntsman22 Campfire Ranger Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 22,897 Kiowa/Deer Trail, Colorado been using H4895 all along....

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? huntsman22 #9388686 12/03/14 Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 24,341 Western North Carolina K K22 Campfire Ranger K22 Campfire Ranger K Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 24,341 Western North Carolina H4895 or IMR8208. My rifle prefers the 8208 by a slight edge.

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? K22 #9392920 12/04/14 Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 32,044 Kpt.,TN , Montgomery, Co, VA bea175 Campfire 'Bwana bea175 Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 32,044 Kpt.,TN , Montgomery, Co, VA I use nothing but H4895 in the 204 Ruger . A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? bea175 #9393869 12/05/14 Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 6,517 Western Kentucky lastround Campfire Tracker lastround Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 6,517 Western Kentucky Varget works. If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice. Doug

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? mailmanmark #9394789 12/05/14 Joined: May 2003 Posts: 22,972 SW Montana V VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger V Joined: May 2003 Posts: 22,972 SW Montana Mailmanmark: Nowadays five of my six Varmint Rifles in 204 Ruger prefer H 4895 (year-round). Hold into the wind

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? VarmintGuy #9550278 01/27/15 Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 75 Between Niagara Falls and Buff... Q QwackerWacker Campfire Greenhorn QwackerWacker Campfire Greenhorn Q Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 75 Between Niagara Falls and Buff... 26.6gr of Benchmark under a 35gr Berger is easy 1/2 MOA in my Savage VLP.

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? QwackerWacker #9550824 01/27/15 Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,682 Southern Oregon USA S Seafire Campfire 'Bwana Seafire Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,682 Southern Oregon USA H322, or AR Comp... both temp insensitive...and accurate honorable mention to H4198...another "Temp Extreme" powder

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? mailmanmark #9551239 01/27/15 Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,934 R RickyBobby Campfire Regular RickyBobby Campfire Regular R Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,934 I really like RamShot XTerminator in my .204s and it seems to burn really clean too ================================================== I'm a proud member of the BGE cult ... yes, I consider myself an EGGHEAD

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? RickyBobby #9551356 01/27/15 Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 60,046 Banana Belt, Montana M Mule Deer Campfire Kahuna Mule Deer Campfire Kahuna M Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 60,046 Banana Belt, Montana TAC also does extremely well, both in accuracy and velocity, and is very cold-resistant. “Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? Mule Deer #9551412 01/27/15 Joined: May 2009 Posts: 17,249 Cheyenne, Wy Fotis Campfire Ranger Fotis Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2009 Posts: 17,249 Cheyenne, Wy 32 v max 28 gr Win 748 https://thehandloadinglog.wordpress.com μολὼν λαβέ "Weatherby was too long so I nicknamed it "Bee""

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? Fotis #9552083 01/27/15 Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 378 SE Wa Darkker Campfire Member Darkker Campfire Member Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 378 SE Wa CFE, hot or cold; rain or shine. I'm a firm believer in the theory of " If it bleeds, I can kill it".

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? Darkker #9552180 01/27/15 Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 21,937 H HawkI Campfire Ranger HawkI Campfire Ranger H Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 21,937 Benchmark

Re: powder for a .204 in the winter? HawkI #9552355 01/28/15 Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 6,571 upstate NY J JeffG Campfire Tracker JeffG Campfire Tracker J Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 6,571 upstate NY Re-10x and 35g Bergers have the same point of aim/impact at 80 deg and 15 deg (F) for me. Chrony difference is <25fps, and my ES is half that. "...One Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All" JeffG