How popular is 20cal center fire in the UK?

[the prowler]

Having used my semi custom sako75 204ruger by Steve Kershaw. How many hunters use 20cal?
Hopefully be getting a little brother in 20vartarg soon for day time crows and fox.

 

[the prowler]

 

[ColinBr]

I know a few boys on here love the 204. Looks like a great cartridge

 

[dasherman]

10 or 15 years ago I was rebarreling lots of .222’s to various .20 cals. Now I probably do a couple of .204 Ruger’s a year. The people who wanted to experiment and have something other than a .223 have disappeared (probably all bought a Creedmoor)
Still got lots of .20 cal blanks in stock.

 

[kenbro]

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Gotta love that Fireball case.
Kb.

 

[kenbro]

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Nobody must have made a 20 Practical at that time?
Ken.

 

[Longstrider]

Plenty of .20 lovers about and I'm one off them My little bog-standard Howa 1500 in .204 Ruger is an absolute game changer when foxing. It's the ease with which you can 'reach out and touch' foxes that might well have previously been w-a-y out of range that I love.
In daylight a 400 yd fox is a dead fox ... every time

 

[andy R204]

Owned a .204 since 2010,onto my 2nd one now.
What's not to like,relatively easy to reload for,no recoil & devastating terminal performance.

 

[BenBhoy]

Love the 204. Picking up a M77 in it today

 

[palo]

Love the 204. Picking up a M77 in it today

I have had various 204 rifles since 2005.
I owned and shot various ruger M77 rifles and they were all tackdrivers.
Some 204 rifles won't shoot the hornady 40 grain bullets accurately but all the rugers I tried shot them very well.

 

[aris]

What is barrel life like?

 

[BenBhoy]

Some 204 rifles won't shoot the hornady 40 grain bullets

I had a t3x in 204 and that didn't like the 40s. Not that I minded as it used 32s to liquidise the inside of every fox it met!!

 

[palo]

I had a t3x in 204 and that didn't like the 40s. Not that I minded as it used 32s to liquidise the inside of every fox it met!!

Yeah I had a sako that didn't like them either but the rugers shot everything very well.

 

[Will the chippy]

Love the 204. Picking up a M77 in it today

Nice, I keep hanging my nose over the Ruger 77. Where you getting that from?

 

[BenBhoy]

Nice, I keep hanging my nose over the Ruger 77. Where you getting that from?

Mark

 

[Will the chippy]

Mark

He's a good lad. You'll be able to get it zeroed too. Hell not sell you a pup.

 

[Overlay]

Been shooting a 204 for 18 months now, really pleased with it, in as much I only use the duece for canada geese culls and muntjac stalking now

It is a wee bit noisier than the deuce but it is a cracking foxing without a doubt

I shoot rabbits with the 222 just head shots, no point doing that with the 204 that extra bit of oomph is really noticeable i use the Hornady super performance and the round certainly sticks to its label name

 

[scotch_egg]

10 or 15 years ago I was rebarreling lots of .222’s to various .20 cals. Now I probably do a couple of .204 Ruger’s a year. The people who wanted to experiment and have something other than a .223 have disappeared (probably all bought a Creedmoor)
Still got lots of .20 cal blanks in stock.

Do you remember that stupidly heavy barreled Lawton in 20 Tac you built me? Was an awesome truck gun and absolutely no recoil. I may add it was accurate as hell and didn’t need it be that heavy.

20 Tac is easy to form from .223 as is 20 Practical. Getting dies might be the issue now days though. I’m back on .223 and 53gr V-Max.

 

[BenBhoy]

You'll be able to get it zeroed too.

The way today's shaping up it'll be dark by time I get there! Tb testing

 

[Will the chippy]

The way today's shaping up it'll be dark by time I get there! Tb testing

Ah hell. Hope it goes ok.