had this up before the crash but glad everything is back up! i took my remington 700 sps-v and shortened the barrel from 26" to 20" to reduce weight and make it faster handeling ( i live in kentucky and wont be shooting past 300 yards anyway in this heavy cover) http://i820.photobucket.com...

i have had a 6.5-20x44 with target dot retical for about 5 month's now, have it mounted on my varmint and target rifle a rem 700 sps-v in a sps tactical stock chambered in 204 ruger! in my opinion this scope is a great buy it has great glass, very repeatable tracking on turrets, and nice side focus ...

thanks RowdyYates!

thanks RAMOS, i have more than triple check the measurments to make sure. thanks once again for the help!

the rifle is a rem 700 sps-v (sps varmint) with the varmint weight factory barrel, im thinking warn low rings at .25" will be about right?

tell me if this is right! space from top of base to bottom of scope tube is .50", space between barrel and bottom of scope objective is .40", so .50"-.40"=.1" so a ring hight of .1" will clear the barrel!

i have a vortex viper 6.5-20x44mm scope on my remington 700 sps-v the rings i have are way to high and i can't get 30mm rings localy and have to order them online, does anyone know what hight rings ( in inches or mm) do i need to order to get the scope as low as possible and still clear the barrel?

sodwyer wrote:how much benchmark? what COAL?

here's the full rundown!

annealed winchester brass trimmed with redding trim die then chamfered and debured then finished with a steel wool spinner to polish the case mouth

39 gr. sierra blitzking
25.8 gr. benchmark
cci small rifle primers #400
coal 2.270 in.

i have been looking for a new stock for my remmy 700 204 ruger! going to use it as a paper puncher during the winter and a groundhog rifle during the summer and am done with the factory composite stocks that are way over priced and just dont have the feel (if you get what i mean)! on numrich website...

i got a 4-16x50 a few years back when it was called the blackhawk by barska (they change the name ever so often to make it look like its a diffrent scope) this thing is the biggest piece of junk i have ever seen and i use alot of 25-80 dollar optics, i got the first one in the mail and when i looked...

correct rick im with you just curious about trying new stuff, accuracy is the name of the game and is the only reason i reload! i have no experiance with superformance and was unaware that there has been accuracy complaints with it but at the same time just about any load can be made to shoot well! ...

Some reloaders tend to push the velocities above max, but IMHO that overworks the brass and I'm too cheap to want to replace good brass due to split necks early on.. very true old turtle and well said with my rifle i let it choose my loads and this is what it likes and does not group well with othe...

rick the new powder is soon to be released to the public for reloaders, im just thinking that the superformance powder is the powder that was never released for the 204! and im just curious that if this is the same powder that with some handloads being hotter than factory ammo that the 204 could soo...

i been thinking after seeing the new superformance ad from hornady that the 204 was designed around the superformance powder! when the 204 was first introduced it was said it used a special blended powder that boosted velocity and kept accuracy! with most handloads we can managed up to about 200fps ...

work up from the lowest charge in .2 grains of powder instead of .5 with such a small bullet and case capacity any change makes a big diffrence! when i got my sps i thought it would not shoot the 39 sierra but when i tried loads with .2 grain changes i found that 25.8 grains would give me sub 1/2 mo...