I have really considered doing the 20 Vartag Turbo, or aka 20/222....
Easy to neck down 223 case to a 222 and then neck down that to 20 caliber.
I think that would be an easy thing to load for at the load bench... and don't go velocity crazy, that should make brass last a long time.
a lot of vendors on line, were or are, out of bullets all the time.... but 17 and 20 caliber can be found pretty easily still...
This past week, I have been playing with a Howa Mini Action in 223, playing with loads like 10 gr of Unique, or 11.5 grains of Blue Dot or Steel
propelling a 40 gr V Max down range from 100 out to 200 yds....still getting good tight groups...
easily minute of sage rat out to 200 yds, with a plain vanilla 3 x 9 Bushnell scope....prairie dogs would be no problem.
even a sporter barrel isn't being heated up with 10 shots.. single fed...
but the recoil is atrocious
