.204 Ruger

[matthill01 0]

nice shot bud........

 

Hear hear!

 

You can't beat the .204, it out shoots the .220 Swift and the .22-250, and decimates the old .223 (Warrener's choice) for accuracy, speed and flatness of trajectory...fact.

 

It really is a sweet gun to shoot. I've just taken delivery of one of the new Ruger M77 Hawkeye's in .204 (the trigger is still a it on the heavy size but is very crisp). I've got a Schmidt & Bender 5-25 x 56 PM II in the first focal plane, with illuminated P4 reticle fitted to mine, sitting on Apel fixed mounts, with a double aluminium sunshade to create that kind of tunnel vision effect and reduce glare under the lamp. Its heavy, but one hell of a rifle. Pleasure to shoot. Its how a rifle should be.

 

Its pretty amazing how quiet it is (using a Jet Z Utra Compact silencer), with minimal recoil, and seeing bullet holes appear on the target exactly in the centre of the crosshairs is pretty mindblowing! You can headshot rabbits easily up to 200 yards, prob further if you're a good shot (by headshot, I mean the head tends to vaporise cleanly without trace)! If you hit them in the body at anything less than 150 yards, all that remains is something resembling either a raggy hat or an elongated fluffy scarf; they kind of disturbingly explode from the inside out due to the extreme fragmentation of the V Max. Un fuc**g believeable.

 

It also stops Charlie in his tracks...most are literally switched off like lights...and when you get up to them there's a whole lot of red mist settling and mess to scrape up (with 40 grain Hornady V Max).

 

I can hit normal sized Lucozade bottles filled with water out to 350 / 400 yards with ease, not much left except the wrapped and bottle top. Pushing the 500 yard range seems to be a bit more tricky to get the trajectory right (problem is the bullets are so small you can't really see where they are landing at that range without setting up a decent sized target which I haven't tried yet).

 

Go buy one and be amazed!

I've been looking at the Ruger M77 Hawkeye in .204, i will be using mostly for rabbits and fox, maybe some crows and stuff too. Looks like such a fun caliber and rifle combo! Think ill be reloading though to keep the cost down just a tad.

[Hawkeye. 26]

I've been using the Ruger Hawkeye All Weather .204 for a few years now. I put a Rifle Basix trigger in it.... sweet as you like, had to shorten the front sling stud when I had it first as it was touching the barrel and I couldn't get a tidy grouping. Load my own with Berger 35gn hollow points, 3 in one hole on a 100 yd target+ Great results with foxes. 2 words to describe my 204...... sweet + fun A friend has 2 x 204's, a Hawkeye All weather + a M77 VT with NV,re loads for them using Sierra 39 gn