prairie lover
CGN Regular
- Location
- southern MB
If you already shoot the 204, and you load that with its best bullets for ballistic preformance(40gr v max, 39gr blitzking ) then maybe look for something a bigger step up. Maybe a fast twist 22 creed.
The 220 and 204 loaded to there potential are within inches of each other drop and drift wise, and the 204 often gets the edge burning alot less powder. Where the 204 shines is watching bullet impacts through the scope. ( on a completely unrelated note the utter lack of recoil on the 17 hornet allows you to see everything going on at the shot is what makes that little round so special)
I was out jack rabbit hunting this winter with a friend. I carried a t3 lite in 204. 39gr bk at 3700, not the fastest barrel tikka ever made, but pretty respectable. He was shooting a 28 inch heavy barred swift.
Rabbits run out of the treeline we're pushing. They then may or may not sit down at anywhere from 100( that day nothing under 250) yards to as far as the eye can see( next treeline has half a mile off). When they do sit you may have time for a shot. There is really no time for rangefinders at this time. You guess the range and shoot. I spot my shots with even the t3 lite. He never saw a single impact. I guess the range, hold off with my bdc reticle and shoot. Spot the impact and quickly re-adjust. In my head I now know the yardage cause I observed pretty much every impact. The problem is the rabbits often, but not always run another 50 to God knows what yards after a shot that lands near them. All brain work and seconds to do it. We pushed up about a dozen rabbits. We hit 0 rabbits with our first shots at that particular rabbit due to being off on the range estimation. After a fast action hunt the 204 had 6 rabbits down and the swift 0. My furthest was 464 yards. Closest around 250. Seeing hits in certain hunting scenarios is key. I did spot for him a few time but each time that particular rabbit started running after the first shot and never stopped.
I have a t3 lite in 22250 shooting 55 gr nosler bt at 3650. It does alot of things well but spotting impacts is not one of them. Can lead to a very frustrating rabbit hunting experiance.
The 220 and 204 loaded to there potential are within inches of each other drop and drift wise, and the 204 often gets the edge burning alot less powder. Where the 204 shines is watching bullet impacts through the scope. ( on a completely unrelated note the utter lack of recoil on the 17 hornet allows you to see everything going on at the shot is what makes that little round so special)
I was out jack rabbit hunting this winter with a friend. I carried a t3 lite in 204. 39gr bk at 3700, not the fastest barrel tikka ever made, but pretty respectable. He was shooting a 28 inch heavy barred swift.
Rabbits run out of the treeline we're pushing. They then may or may not sit down at anywhere from 100( that day nothing under 250) yards to as far as the eye can see( next treeline has half a mile off). When they do sit you may have time for a shot. There is really no time for rangefinders at this time. You guess the range and shoot. I spot my shots with even the t3 lite. He never saw a single impact. I guess the range, hold off with my bdc reticle and shoot. Spot the impact and quickly re-adjust. In my head I now know the yardage cause I observed pretty much every impact. The problem is the rabbits often, but not always run another 50 to God knows what yards after a shot that lands near them. All brain work and seconds to do it. We pushed up about a dozen rabbits. We hit 0 rabbits with our first shots at that particular rabbit due to being off on the range estimation. After a fast action hunt the 204 had 6 rabbits down and the swift 0. My furthest was 464 yards. Closest around 250. Seeing hits in certain hunting scenarios is key. I did spot for him a few time but each time that particular rabbit started running after the first shot and never stopped.
I have a t3 lite in 22250 shooting 55 gr nosler bt at 3650. It does alot of things well but spotting impacts is not one of them. Can lead to a very frustrating rabbit hunting experiance.
