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Hi great forum I am new to a 204 . I have been buying my bullets powder primers die yesterday my brass. This is what I got so ya can tell me what to start off with.
Bullets 100 32 gr 300 39 gr bk.
1000 32 gr z max 100 40 gr v max. Nosler 200 32 gr hp and 100 40 gr BT.
Powder h322 335 4895 varget benchmark imr 4895 3031 RL10 15 Tac picking up some imr 8208 and CFE 223.
Brass started off with finding a box of nosler 50 ct brass went another store pick up 200 hornady and the last store had 1 bag of Winchester 100 ct wish I want there first.
Primers Winchester Remington a few match do they have to be match? Has anybody loaded any magtech I got a great deal on them 18.00 a 1000 would they be good in the 204 I bought 18,000 of them to shoot in my AR.
My rifle is a TC venture 1@10 topped with a Nikon 6x18x40mm target dot to shoot crows too. So ya know what I have can ya help me with a good powder and bullet for fox and cats but when a coyotes comes in I want to kill it too. I haven't shot my gun my wife bought it for val day better than candy any day. Will take all the help from the great people on here. I just get on here reading learned a lot and got me wanting a 204 bad. Ty. Richest

Welcome to the forum. You will find lots of great advice on here. First, where in the heck you from? I could spend a week driving to every gun shop in Michigan and still not come up with the variety of bullets and powder you have found. I am lucky to find 32gr vmax and I live within an hour of five different sporting good stores and powder, what a joke. Any way good job finding the components.

I have a TC venture predator and it likes everything I feed it using either 8208 or H4895.
My favorite load for coyote is 39bk on top of 8208. It has only accounted for two but it put the smack down on them. One at 20yds and one at 300. I think that load was right around 26.7gr but that is just from memory. You need to be safe, ref the manuals, start low and work up. I was using Fed match primer and rem brass. I have now switched to rem 7.5 primersbecause thats all I can find.

I havent shot cats or fox with it, so dont know how that will do but have shot squirrel with it and the 26gr varmint grenade rocks them right out of the tree. Only take head shots cause I like to eat them sometimes.

Be careful and have fun.
Bob

I agree with Bob, I too just got a 204 I loaded up 24 rounds of the Hornady 32 gr v-max with 3 different powders and the 8208 was amazing. Havn't put a round into a critter yet but at 4000 fps I'm sure it will do the trick.

Do you have to use match primers. I fount a older man he stop reloading I bought 18,000 magtech srp from him for 16.00 or 18.00 a 1000.

I am not familiar with magtech primers so cant help you there but alot of guys use match primers in the 204. There seems to be a common theme that with 204's the cci400 and standard sr primer cups are too thin and can cause issues with piercing and cratering. HTH
Bob

Hi I did find where some guys was talking about them and said they was very good primer plus for a AR. I know in midway magtech is 3.00 higher than other primers i don't know why. One guy said they was a little thicker good for reloading in AR's. That's what the older man used them for his AR. But I did score on Remington 7 1/2 match. 2000 the guy said they didn't sell as good as the federal. But I was glad to get Remington.

varmit_master wrote:Hi I did find where some guys was talking about them and said they was very good primer plus for a AR. I know in midway magtech is 3.00 higher than other primers i don't know why. One guy said they was a little thicker good for reloading in AR's. That's what the older man used them for his AR. But I did score on Remington 7 1/2 match. 2000 the guy said they didn't sell as good as the federal. But I was glad to get Remington.

I use Hornady cases, Remington 7 1/2 primers and 27.5 grains of 8208xbr with a 39 grain Blitzking bullet seated at 2.30.
Out of my M77 Mk II VT I'm getting 3875 fps and 1/3 moa with this load.