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I used to be a regular on this site but since selling my .204 for much needed money back in September I have not been to this site in some time, (to cope with my period of mourning). :( Well time heals heartbreaks and while the scars remain, we must move onto new loves. Money is still tight right no...

Looks pretty plush!!

I am plenty envious, have only gotten out once so far this year, weather has been shite on wknds in my area.

How many rounds do you average per day??

I have just over 1000 that came from factory loads over the past 5 years, various lots (no more than 4 boxes purchased at any one time) Did find a few with tight primer pockets but with my primer pocket uniformer and a drop of oil they are all exactly the same now. As for neck thickness's I did have...

Sounds like you have had a decent beginning of the season. I got out for the first time this past weekend, was hot sunny and calm. Our ground squirrels are not yet out en-mass, mainly just the males out getting ready for mating season. As it were I got to test out my newly acquired Marlin 17 HMR. Ov...

I just bought a used Marlin recently, it had a Rifle Basix trigger installed on it by the previous owner than made me snap it up quickly. Its set at about 1-1/2 lbs which I dont think I will change. Most of the time it will be my walk-about gun and used with a bipod but occasionally shot from an ATV...

465 rounds so far in my Shilen replacement barrel. Most has been load development though I did run through over 100 rounds in the field that had been developed for the factory tube. The factory tube was around the 4000 round mark (though I never kept an accurate track of rounds fired, could be as ma...

Sounds like a lot of fun. I hoped to reach the 500 yard mark last summer but the factory barrel began to loose accuracy and I replaced in the last month of my varminting season. I developed a load that is running around 3" to 3-1/2" at 500 yards so I am confident next spring to break into ...

The most common of our living targets out here is the Richardson Ground Squirrel, and fortunately a professor at a nearby university has spent years on studying these critters and published her data that helps me plan their demise :twisted: 2 (The poor lady would commit hara-kari if she knew her lif...

I loaded up 30 rounds with two loads to try. Not a large problem, I had 300 rounds of .204 Ruger loaded up that had been neck sized for my factory barrel and I found they would not chamber in my new barrel unless I used excessive force on the bolt. Worried I would gall the lugs I purchased a cheap ...

H4895 pushing 39 Grain SBK's is my current pet load for my 204 so it was the powder I had on hand when I tried a few 35 grain Bergers. Velocity was right where the charts said it should be for the test loads I tried, but pressure was higher (flattened primers) than any load I have tried so far. Even...

I was told that this was tried on the wolves in the area of Alberta that I hunt in. Anybody with any sense knows that it is just a silly idea but apparently it was attempted on the Bob's Creek pack but the pack still kept eating livestock (hard to imagine after being sterilized the wolves still ate ...

I have used wet cloths to hasten cooling, I just wait a little while (5 minutes) after I have taken the cloth off to give the barrel temp a chance to even out. When I shot right after I used the cloth, (or while it was still on the barrel) the POI was high, when I wait a bit it is not noticable. As ...

With the newer 300 mag wiz bangs on the market these days it is easy to overlook the .308 Win. However this weekend I witnessed a 300 yard shot on a large cow moose with a .308, broke a rib going in, complete pass through and broke another rib exiting. Lungs were destroyed and she trotted about 50 y...

From my readings of this forum I came to the unscientific conclusion that bullet most preferred for pure accuracy is the 35 grain Berger, while powders and primers are purely personal preference depending on availability and such. While I wanted the higher BC and frangibility of the 39 grain SBK's f...

I was wondering if there are any fans of the old .22 Hornet out there?? Been thinking of this cartridge for some time now as a replacement for the 17 HMR that I gave to my brother in law as a wedding gift. I found that I really missed the intermediate cartridge that fit in between the .22LR and .204...