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Per the 204 Ruger site H322 the most accurate powder tested.....
My buddy farted with this for weeks and hundreds of rounds. I told him to quit fighting it a switch. He finally did he's shooting .5's to .7's at 200.
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bea175,
I tried max listed loads of Benchmark and TAC in my rifle on the same day, shooting 10-shot groups. TAC was 100 fps faster and .1 more accurate.
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varget shoots very well in mine but you give up some velocity
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bea175,
I tried max listed loads of Benchmark and TAC in my rifle on the same day, shooting 10-shot groups. TAC was 100 fps faster and .1 more accurate. I have a pound of TAC and will give it a try.
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TAC works for me, both for accuracy and fps.
And it certainly seems to shoot cleanly.
Works very well in my 223's too.
And the metering is lovable!
Has killed a lot of PD's.
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8208XBR has worked well for me so far with the two v-max bullets. I was using BL-C2, but did not like the temperature sensitivity. T.S.
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Had mine out on the range the other day again...
besides AR Comp and H 322, I was testing out the new 24 GR NTX Hornady over a charge of RL 7...
an old powder but RL 7 NEVER fails to keep impressing me with both accuracy and velocity in ratio to the charge used to get there...
those new NTXs are also impressing me with accuracy potential.. they are shooting much tighter groups than the Nosler Lead Free Ballistic Tips are in testing with the 22 caliber, and 20 caliber..
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I have both a 204 Encore ProHunter and a CZ 527. Both of those rifles prefer H4895 and H322 than any other powder I have loaded for them. But I am using 32 grain pills.
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Haven't seen AA2520 mentioned so far. 27.5 grains and the Sierra 39 BK have been the combo in at least 10 different 204's I've put together and tested. GHD
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I found a good load combo using 39 SBK and CFE223 powder. 450 primers made it really tighten up. Go near the top of hodgdons load recommendations.
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I’m still in the early stages with with my CZ 527, but 40 gr Vmax and H322 are in the lead.
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My rifle likes the Hornady 32 grain V-Max and and 30.5 grains of BL-C (2)
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This is an old thread, but I'm wondering, anyone here loading to the throat?
That was the first thing that struck me with the 204, how far out the throat was. I could only load Blitz Kings to kiss rifling, and then only the 39 BK because it has a truncated boat-tail. 40 VMs did terrible, couldn't touch the neck AND the rifling. So did some gold-tipped Rem factory fodder, just all over the paper. But the 39 Kings shot. So did 32s after I'd done a concentricity check on fired cases, culling those that formed off center in what was a FAT chamber.
And yep, TAC works nicely.
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Dave Skinner: Over the last 50+ years (actually 62 years now that I take time to figger!) of handloading for Rifles I came to realize that just because bullets" have to "jump" some to get to the leades of the rifling DOES NOT automatically make those bullets/cartridges "inaccurate"! I own dozens of Rifles (factory Rifles!) that have throats longer than I would prefer and even though the bullets in them "jump" a lot they still attain for me good to excellent accuracy. In my hoard of 204 Ruger heavy barrel factory Rifles I easily obtained EXCELLENT accuracy from all of them with little attention/concern as to "bullet jump". These Rifles include: Ruger #1-V S/S Ruger 77 V/T (2 of these) Remington 700 VLS Remington XR-100 (4 of these) H&R Handi-Rifle And by the way I had to switch over all my 204's to the relatively short 32 grain Sierra BlitzKing bullets due to scarcity of my preferred Berger 35 grain bullets. I am glad your 204 Ruger Rifle perked up and started shooting well - and if I read your posting correctly your experience coincides with mine (the 32 grain bullets shooting as well as the 39 grain BlitzKings/longer bullets). I have as yet to come across a quality Rifle in caliber 204 Ruger that was "inaccurate"! In other words I am saying the 204 Ruger is an inherently accurate cartridge! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I’m just about to hop into the 204 ruger and I can reload that caliber I’m ready to try out all kinds of new and different powder and loads.
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Hey 76 Michael how do you like your 204 ruger?
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I have three 204 Rugers, a great cartridge. I shoot only 32 and 35 grain bullets. Benchmark has proven accurate for me.
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I've got two of them on AR platforms and I use Benchmark primarily too. But you guys have talked me into trying H322. We'll see how it goes
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I also have had great success with cfe223 in my 3 204's. 32 gr. blitxkings,32 vmaxs, and 39 gr blitxkings.fast and accurate. I've worn out a barrel on one of them. 3500 rds. approx. still shoots ok but going to get a new tube this winter. It's gone from a 1/4" rifle to 3/4" but I have about 300 rds that I want to shoot up in it, Have a new barrel ordered.
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I've got two 204's quite different models. 700 with 24" barrel and Thompson Center compass with a 22 in barrel.The compass is 5R rifled 10 twist , 700 is a 12 twist. Both shoot 40gr v-max better than anything lighter. Haven't tried heavier yet in the compass. H 4895and 8208 what I like to burn
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