Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats 20 Vartarg or 20 Fireball????

Or pick up a L461 action or rifle and your feed issues will disappear. I am in the process of building a 221 Fireball and 222 on one now.
Controlled feed on this action and tough to beat Sako quality, right now they are the same or cheaper than a Rem 700.

What do these 2 20's do that the 204 Ruger can't do?

Nothing really. One could light load the 204 and duplicate the 20 VT.
I have several of both, and use them on PDs and coyotes.
To get philosophical, one could get a 30-06 and 22-250, load them up and down and pretty much cover all hunting in North America. But that would not be much fun.

And the fun part is what I failed to consider. Thanks Dale.

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

is that as good as you can do G Dub? you're slowing down in your old age my friend...

you definitely have a fun toy box....

This has turned into one of my most favorite threads on the campfire. Lots of good information that makes me want to go shoot.