In 2004 I was sent (by my brothers sporting goods stores) too Cody, WY for a weekend of "playing" by several manufacturers (Kimber, Knight, Bushnell, Remington, Swarovski, Smith & Wesson and Hornady). It was given for the top dealersby a buying group we belonged too. But anyway, if you have ever been too Cody's municipal range center you know it is EXCELLENT. Their rifle section has 100yd increments out too 500yds. BUT after we started drilling the 500yd targets the rangemaster came over and pointed out various targets on the hill behind the range. The targets were mostly small trees but there were also two steel rams placed on the hillside under trees at between 900 and 1000 yds.

At the time the .204 was essentially brand new and ammo was in very short supply (For the 204 Hornady would only give each of usone box each, for anything else it was all we desired.). Kimber and Hornady both had 204s there as well as other guns. Kimber had a heavy barreled varmint gun that had a Swarovski with TDS plex in it. They also had a 22/250 rigged identically sitting right beside it. Some of the dealers were more shotgun and handgun nuts so I talked them into giving me their 204 ammo so I probably had about 3-4 boxes of the stuff. I can't remember the exact windage and elevation holdings we ended up using but I remember that with either of the two small calibers it was ALOT! (lol those little bullets really loose alot of velocity and get blown around easily past 500yds.) I remember the sight picture as having the target at about "7oclock" and that was with a high power 18x and 24X scope!

After two days of playing I reached the conclusion that the 204 has nothing on the 22/250 and obviously there is alot more ammo choices (including some deer rounds like the 55grn Trophy Bonded from Federal Prem) available in the 22/250. I am not saying the 204 is useless, it's a GREAT gun and alot of fun to shoot. But unless you are just a small caliber nut and want alot of rifles (I prefer bigger cals like .25+) the 204 doesn't bring much too the plate that wasn't already there. Alotof its hoopla is because it breaks the 4kfps barrier.(I get that "fix" with my Warbird, but being a4k fps 30 cal it's an ENTIRELY differentsituation! )

They certainly are nail drivers tho,
RA