Because of the small diameter of the .204 generally the wall thicknesses will be greater. That was my initial thought as well and would make sense if all muzzles were the same size. But of these three rifles, the smallest caliber has largest muzzle diameter and makes me think there's some other rea...

I was looking at several posts here and one of them was about .204 varmint barrels. I bought a Tikka T3 Lite and I'm sure it doesn't have a varmint barrel but it looked a bit "thick" at the muzzle. So I got out several firearms and measured the barrel diameters at the muzzle and discovered...

First post - just bought a Tikka T3 Lite last week, plus cases, bullets, dies, waiting on my scope and DNZ mount to arrive. I've been gleening as much info as I can on reloading .204 and somewhere I read a comment that said "the .204 performs better away from the lands" - yeah or nay? I'll...