Ruger 204 55 Grain bullets
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:46 pm
Hello i have been doing alot of testing with the 204 ruger now for 5 years in factory guns and now in rifles that i have had built in my apinon cooper and savage have the most accurate factory rifles on the market my loads i shoot are 39 grain blitzking with 26 grains of reloader 10 and 40 grain bergers with 25 grains of reloader 10 i have killed two groundhogs one at 702 yards and one at 712 yards with the blitzking with the 40 berger is 664 yards in the last 5 years me and my cousin have killed around 300 groundhogs and i have killed around 130 coyotes with the 204 i am very happy with this around.this year i had a new gun built in 204 ruger so far this is my testing on this gun it has a lijia 1 in 9 three grove barrel it is a savage 12 low profile single shot its been bedded and the trigger has been polished i,m shooting berger 55 with 26.8 grains of reloader 15 i have tryed alot of different powders and this is the most accurate for me my speed for a five shot group is 3,380 i have tested it out to 800 yards i shot 5 ,3 shot groups and this is how it done first group was inch and 5/8 second group was five inch and3/8 third group was 3 inch and1/2 forth group was 4 inch and6/10 fifth group was 4 inch and 3/4in the next two weeks i will shoot this out to 1,100 yards when i get done i will post how it done with pictures at 800 yards it only dropped 127 inchs and the speed is 1,697 i also shot a 3/4 inch at 800 yards it went threw it and made a hole about the size of a 50 cent piece at 1,000 yards it is still going 1,400 feet a second Jamie Brown