Originally Posted By: mbaysinger89Think about it this way Dave, you have a "204" at 24" inches suppressed, that will keep up with any 204 at 24" inches not suppressed. That has to be worth a cent or 2 a shot.
Yeah, it's still going to be a bit of unique rig, that's for sure. If, and it's still a big if, but if it happens to out perform the .204R by a hundred fps or so, all the better.
It will open up a lot of bullet choices though, if nothing else. At the velocity it was getting, finding a commercially made .20 caliber bullet that wouldn't splash on coyote shoulder was a challenge. Had settled on a very custom 38 gr. made to my specs on drawn down .224 SMK jackets. Long boat tail, short one caliber bearing surface, long 8S ogive, tightest meplat the ejection pin of the die would allow with sticking a bullet in the die. Cool bullet and solved my problems. But can't get any more made and slightly lower BC than the 39 BK, of which I have a bunch as that's what my .20 Dasher eats.
That .20 Dasher, BTW, is the flattest shooting rig I own. Extends MPBR well beyond any of the others I mentioned. An honest 350 yard MPBR on a 4" target. That's unreal. But it's a big heavy, long barreled, single shot colony varmint rig. Not suitable for my style of coyote hunting at all. It would be pretty sweet for lamping off a high rack or California rig though.
- DAA