quinn,
Please turn your cap locks off, all caps gives the impression that you are yelling.
I have a good load that consists of 40gr Berger LTBs and 27.0gr of H4895.I dont know the exact velocity, but Hodgdon website says its about 3700fps or a little slower. This load shoots consistently in the 4 tenths. I want to get the velocity up but this load loses accuracy if I start to push up the velocity. I have purchased some AA2230 to test and see if that gets the velocity up. I don't have a chrony so I have to wait for a time that my friend and I can get together and test.I will keep posting my results if your interested.slygunner

Actually, Ruger barrels are better now(they make most of them themselves) than they were twenty years ago,when Wilson made them all at a dirt cheap price.Ruger made a lot of "tent pegs" back then!



Flaws appear in just about any brand of guns-it's simply the human factor-mistakes happen.



A few years ago I was sorting through .22lever rifles to find one to shoot in NRA smallbore Cowboy silhouette competitions.I had acquired a Marlin m39M carbine(made in 1981) and upon testing it with a rear peep sight,found it had a barrel that was canted 1/4" off to the right at the muzzle! That is it was screwed in the action at an angle.



Later,I bought a nice,nearly mint 1952 vintage Marlin m39a with a Ballard rifled barrel(pre Microgroove).It is a gun that makes Marlin lovers wax eloquent about the quality in the "Good old days".When I shot it with a rear aperture I noticed I had to crank the sight WAY over to the left.Guess what? It TOO had a barrel screwed in off center!Also the Ballard rifled barrle shot NO better than anynof the other more recent Micro grooved Marlins I've owned.



So much for "old time craftmanship"

Wellllll Sh!t. They send the same barrel back, replaced the forearm (don't know why) said the accuracy was "outstanding" and the barrel meets the factory specs for fit and finish.

Now I'm pissed. The end of the barrel has RINGS IN IT. Oops don' t need to yell at you guys. Come on Ruger, you can feel them with a toothpick/swizzle stick and see them with the nekked eye. They get filled up with copper really quick and need to be cleaned every 10 shots or accuracy goes to hell.

My guess is they slapped it in the fixture, shot three shots into the test target, got a 1-inch group and said "good 'nuff"

So I'm weighing my options. Do I cut and recrown? do I rebarrel with a quality barrel?

Need some help here guys, what would you do?

Can't get custom dies until I know if the chamber will be the same.

Jim

Heading to the gunsmith for an inspection/cut-recrown tonight.

Hornady sent me the wrong seating die, so I used a 223 seating die to load a few 32gr with IMR4198. The results were horrible. I think the concentricity was good, but the OAL had to be 2.3 to get to the lands and I'm not sure that is enough seating depth in the case. The factory loads are much shorter, and I'll work down the case until the 24.5gr that shot the best shoot better. If not, I'll try a different powder. 22gr was a 3" vertical string, the groups got better until 24.5 gr, where I stopped until I got the right die. These cases are necksized only and fit the Ruger's chamber well.

I didn't bother with a chrony yet. Hornady replacement innards should be here by next monday. I'll let you know how it goes from there.

JIm

I think the best option would be to get rid of another one of Rugers masterpeices and get yourself a good .204!!.....Savage VLP or Remington VLS ought to do it!! It still is not acceptable for me to type the whole name of the new .204!!!! I'll always just call it the ".204" without using the rest of the name!!! If it had ben called the ".204 Hornady" that would have been acceptable!! GHD