Any 204 Ruger love?

[Blacklab]

love mine, lilja 17 inch barrel 204 ruger build. Small bullets that go really fast are my favorite 

[2labs]

Love mine, Howa 1500 with a 4.5 x 14 x 50 LR luepold . 32 v max shoot the best groups. 39 sbk shoot about .75. No recoil and cheap to reload.

32s have a major splat factor!

[jpharcher]

I have a 700 SPS topped with a Nikon Monarch 3 4x16x42. This gun hates Hornady 40 superformance rounds, 1 in 12 twist cannot stabilize it- keyholed every shot but shoots Winchester 34  grain lubalox very well. Once I started reloading it I went with Berger 40's, pushed by 26ish grains of Varget and am shooting dime groups of 10 shots at 200.
The Remington throat is deeper than any I have owned, cannot get .010 off lands so I load to 2.310 COAL and it shoots GREAT.
I am not so patiently waiting for my Shilen 1 in 9 24 inch barreled AR upper to arrive to put on a Palmetto lower and try it out.
Have not had a chance to put any dogs down....yet, been east once, elk got in the way of the dogs that were trying to come in.
With reloading I am on 10th reload on a lot of my brass, very little stretch between reload, unlike my 22-250 which stretches .005ish each time.

[257 Wby Mag]

Ya Landon I've smashed lotsa coyotes and bucks via 55 bt's in either a 243 or 6mm, the shhhhhwack is quite impressive, as are the exit holes !!! Wanted sumthin a little tamer for fox, badger,and coyote. Think I might even try those 32 grainers out on a muley buck in Montana this year, just for conversation..

[2labs]

Ya Landon I've smashed lotsa coyotes and bucks via 55 bt's in either a 243 or 6mm, the shhhhhwack is quite impressive, as are the exit holes !!! Wanted sumthin a little tamer for fox, badger,and coyote. Think I might even try those 32 grainers out on a muley buck in Montana this year, just for conversation..

Why would you shoot a "Muley Buck" with a 32gr. .204? Or any .204 bullet!
And post that?

[257 Wby Mag]

Ahh that didn't take long...

My question then, is why not? Are bucks Boolit proof? Are they really that hard to kill?

[Biggerhammer]

Ha! Where it's legal. I would heart shoot a mulie no problem with a 32gr V-Max out of a .204 Ruger. On the other hand, I would have no problem shooting it with a 470gr CEB NON-CON out of a .450 Ultra Magnum either.

[Biggerhammer]

Ahh that didn't take long...

My question then, is why not? Are bucks Boolit proof? Are they really that hard to kill?

It's only hard to put bucks down, when they are shot poorly.

[jjhunter]

I seen a few muley bucks fall to a 22-250   

[Biggerhammer]

Speed kills.

[yorketransport]

I had a 204 for a while and it was one of the most boring guns I've ever owned. I loaded up some 32gr V-max bullets on top of a mild charge of H-322 and all of the bullets just kept going into the same hole.  I had the scope zeroed and my load development done in 10 shots. What's the fun in that?

It was my dedicated porcupine rifle and it did an amazing job of it! This critter was shot at about 50 yards.



The quills and fur went every where!

Andrew

[CAMPMEAT]

I bet that porkie had a stank to it..........

[yorketransport]

That particular one had tape worms like I've never seen. Most of it got left for the coyotes. Everything but the skull and hide.

I have a lot more respect for the 204 after seeing what it did to that critter. Porcupines are surprisingly tough and that little 32gr bullet did a heck of a job!

Andrew

[Blacklab]

This is why I built mine. Reminds me of Randy Johnson just no body 

[257 Wby Mag]

Ya Landon I've smashed lotsa coyotes and bucks via 55 bt's in either a 243 or 6mm, the shhhhhwack is quite impressive, as are the exit holes !!! Wanted sumthin a little tamer for fox, badger,and coyote. Think I might even try those 32 grainers out on a muley buck in Montana this year, just for conversation..

Why would you shoot a "Muley Buck" with a 32gr. .204? Or any .204 bullet!
And post that?

Because I have a hunch it'll work quite handily....