The 204 Ruger

[Fassteel]

Those of you that reload for the 204, do you find it a pleasure? Or is it rather finicky? Some cartridges I find are very easy to make quality uniform reloads, and others can be a little more picky with things like brass prep, neck tension, bullet seating or uniform powder charges that keep your ES down. Is brass life good?

Just curious, I have been thinking about a 204 lately with all of you CGNers that seem to love your 204's, but not everyone reloads.

I have loaded for 2 rifles, a CZ varmint and an HS precision varmint. The HS was great with the first load I tried in it which is the 40gr nosler ballistic tip with 27gr of varget and the CZ was very good with the 39gr Sierra Blitz with 28 of varget. I just went with Sammi coal with both of these rifles as I have understood that they like some jump into the lands.
I have a variety of other brands and weights of bullets I could test out and I have sold the CZ rifle, but likely won't bother until I run out of 40gr ballistic tips which is going to be a while. FS

 

[mackillan]

I have a sako stainless varmint in .204 but have a sako laminated stainless in 22-250 for coyotes. The. Varmint model is great for gopher towns but to walk around for coyotes I went with the lighter stainless laminated

 

[scott_r]

I've found it to be a real easy cartridge to reload for. Im using H322 for my 32 gr. Sierra's and H4895 for my 39 gr. Sierra's. Best thing about it is seeing a direct hit on my coyote at 400 yards in my scope, bang..flop. No recoil at all. Can't say that about the other varmint guns I own.

 

[cote_b]

I dont know a heck of alot about it, but the velocity attainable wth even factory loads is unreal. Id imagine you could really push it by handloading.