My reloads, a 32 Gr V-Max bullet with a MV of 3900 ft/sec is set at 3/4 " high at 100 yards. At 150 yards its about the same and zerroed in at 200 yards . At 225 yards its about 3/4 " low and 1 3/4" low at 250 yards. At 275 yards the 32 Gr bullet is 3 " low.

Every rifle barrel is a bit different, What may work in one rifle may not be the best for an other. I have clean barrel and dirty barrel shooters. It is also the reason for reloading, my pet load for my 204 Ruger my not be the best for you rifle. The only way to know what you rifle will do is shoot ...

I live in prairie dog country. I wish that the few people I have taken out would be equiped as well as you. Good shooting..

I get 0.5 of an inch 100 yard five shot groups with a Ruger 77 T V Gray rifle with a Leupold 6-18 x scope w/AO. The 32 Gr V-Max bullet B.C. 0.210 at a muzzle velocity of 3,900 ft/sec is sited in at 200 yards. I entered the data into a ballistics program and got the following. At 300 Yds the bullet w...

If you are going out prairie dog shooting go for a scope with not less than 14x or higher than 18X. If you are going to call in varmints the 3-9 X scope will give you the feild af view for close shots. For prairie dog shooting I have Leupold 6-18 X scope with AO on my 204 Ruger rifle. I have two 6.5...

We who enjoy the shooting sports should do our best to keep our firearms in a secure location so that kids and others can not use them. New laws will not help , but we must controll the firearms we own.

I had a bunch of Hornady 25 Gr HP .172 bullets on hand for my Sako 17 Rem rifle when I got a 17 Fireball rifle last year. When shooting a few prairie dogs with the 17 Fireball at 280 Yds the 25 Gr bullet did not cause much splatter. When I run out of the 25 Gr bullets I give the 20 Gr Nosler and Hor...

With groups less than 1/4 inch do not try to glass bed it . Your Remington 204 Ruger shooting 32 Gr bullets with that small a group is not common. I have gotten new and used Remington rifles that would shoot about 1 1/2 inch and larger five shot 100 Yd groups. The rifles were given a tune up which a...

The action with about two inches of the barrel has ben glass bedded, the rest of the barrel is free floated, the trigger pull has ben set at about 2 3/4 Lbs, and a gunsmith has lapped the bolt locking lugs on the Remington 700 LS 221 Fireball rifle with a Burris 4-16 X scope. I may get a Boyd Thumbh...

Is the rifle custom made ?What type of scope is on the 2000 Yard rifle ? Can the rifle do 1/4 inch five shot groups at 100 yards. What is the ft/lb of energy that the bullet have at 2000 Yds ? How do you plan on preventing gut shots at 2000 Yds ?

I shoot the 17 Fireball, 221 Fireball, 223 Rem and 22 Hornet. I use 19.0 Gr of Benchmark powder with the 25 Gr HP bullet in the 17 Fireball case. My load for the 221 Fireball is 18.6 Gr of Re7 powder with the 40 Gr V-Max bullet. 27.0 Gr of Win 748 is used in the 223 case with a 52 Gr Match bt bullet...

The May 2008 issue of Shooting Times ,starting on page 28 is the artical ( Varmints Beware: Savage's New Model 25 Is Out There) A person should read the artical before getting one.

I set my varmint and big game rifles trigger pull at 2 3/4 to 3 pounds. I have a few cheep 22 rimfires that are around five pounds that I have not worked on. When shooting off of a bench rest with sand bag rests front and rear I get horizontal groups when the trigger pull is over three pounds.

It takes a 1/16 inch allen wrench to adjust the new Remington X Mark Pro Trigger pull. Out of the box my Rem Mdl 700 CDL SF had a five pound trigger pull. I turnd out the trigger pull adjustment screw untill the pull was at 2 3/4 pounds. DO NOT MESS WITH THE SCREW IN THE BACK OF THE TRIGGER , it adj...

25 Gr Hornady HP bullet, 22.0 - 24.5 MAX Gr Varget powder, CCI-BR-4 primer , Remington cases. //// Same data except 21.0 -23.0 Gr MAX H4895 powder --from reloading book Every rifle is different , the only way to know what a rifle will do is work up some test loads. Good luck