This is my first post here even though I've been lurking for a long time. I fell in love with the 204 after shooting 223 for years. My other baby is 6.5 Grendel, but that's for a different board.
I use two 204 rifles in the field. One is an AR15 and the other is a CZ527 Kevlar. It took me about three trips to the range and I finally have my recipe for the AR
Im a brand new reloader. My first round was born in my garage on April 29th 2008
Here are my results.
Factory federal 39g SBK out of my AR at 100 yards. All targets are 100 yards, 5 rounds each.
My load. 24.6g of RL-10x, 39gr sbk, cci 41 primer
My load. 26.5gr of win 748, 40gr v-max cci 41
Those are decent, but I want them holes touching! So, back to 204 Ruger.com I went looking. I found someone listed a all the recipes from all the members here of the different favorite loads and I went from there.
I found what works for my AR alright. It's Varget 39g SBK, fed brass, cci41 <--Im going to try a different primer though. I had two non fires out of 100 rounds. Its the Timney trigger. It's not designed for military primers.
I've actually duplicated these results. I loaded this once and shot em. Then I loaded them up again and my groups proved this is the round my rifle enjoys to eat.
Some 25.2gr of RL15 here with a 40gr Vmax
Next thing I want to do is start playing with bullet seating depths.
