Given the fact that most .204 chambers are too long to seat the bullets touching the lands...at least that's the case on the factory chambers of my three .204's........does anyone have any comments on what you've found to be your "optimum" C.O.L.??? Many thanks....
George
.204 C.O.L.
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Vartarg
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Rick in Oregon
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
George - PM sent.
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
I should have mentioned this in my original post: this is for my two bolt guns....I load 2.26 for the magazine of my DPMS. 
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Joe O
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
My two shooting parterners ,and I,have found 2.355 to giv most accurate loads in 7 different rifles (5 bolt actions)Thats with 40 VMax or Sie 39BKs.
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I'm between 2.300 and 2.325 on my two Remington 700 bolt rifles
Hope this helps.
Later
Ray P
Hope this helps.
Later
Ray P
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
2.345 with 32 vmax, 2.350 with 40 vmax, and 2.355 with 39 bk for Savage model 16 WW.
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
im 2.240 to 2.250
32gr V-max
HOWA 1500 Varminter ( remington 700 )
Bolt - Heavy barel
pretty consistent with my low power scope .25" groups at 100yrds on a 3" shoot-n-see target
32gr V-max
HOWA 1500 Varminter ( remington 700 )
Bolt - Heavy barel
pretty consistent with my low power scope .25" groups at 100yrds on a 3" shoot-n-see target
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Re: .204 C.O.L.
I found that 2.240 OAL with 35 gr Bergers and 28 gr of IMR4895 in my H-S Precision is deadly accurate. For the 40gr Bergers I found that 2.310 OAL with 27.5 gr of IMR 4895 works really well. I plan on trying a couple more OAL above 2.310 but I really don't have much more room to work with on those little bullets.