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Calling all 20 cals...Let's see your wildcats!

Project delayed to complete a 6 BR build but still in progress.

FL 20 VT, .100 Shorty .150 Shorty
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Will chamber for the .150 Shorty to try to achieve 3400-3500 fps with 32 VMax...a K-Hornet replacement with modern high pressure brass.
 

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Both of mine are barely even wildcats just straight neck downs from their parent case and both are Rem700 based builds wearing Hart barrels. First pic is 20-222 shooting 40gr Berger w/H322 and lower pic is 20-250 shooting Berger 55's w/RL16 Nothing particularly exotic or exciting about either build but generally when you use all good parts/pieces and a good gunsmith you end up with good results.

I don't know why but I've always wanted to take one of my CZ 527 17 Hornets and make it a 20 H Hornet and shoot something like that 24gr Hornady NTX bullet. For a medium-ish range ground squirrel/PD gun I've always thought something like that would be a fun one.
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Both of mine are barely even wildcats just straight neck downs from their parent case and both are Rem700 based builds wearing Hart barrels. First pic is 20-222 shooting 40gr Berger w/H322 and lower pic is 20-250 shooting Berger 55's w/RL16 Nothing particularly exotic or exciting about either build but generally when you use all good parts/pieces and a good gunsmith you end up with good results.

I don't know why but I've always wanted to take one of my CZ 527 17 Hornets and make it a 20 H Hornet and shoot something like that 24gr Hornady NTX bullet. For a medium-ish range ground squirrel/PD gun I've always thought something like that would be a fun one.
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Beautiful and classic looking wood stocked 700 there! What bullet weights are you shooting out of your 20-250? Powders and velocities?
 
Can you tell us more about your .100 shorty? Forming, powders used, velocities?
Haven't chambered anything yet.

I don't plan to do the .100 Shorty.... it was just an intermediate step to the .150 Shorty to test powder capacity. I should have .150 Shorty up and running before PD season.

It's way too cold to do any serious load work on the North shore.

Forming....
1. Run a 5.56 LC in a 221 body die
2. FL 221 die modified into a Dillon 1500 trim die
3. 20 VT Body Die
4. 20 VT FL die cut off
5. K&M expander
6. Chamfer & final trim on Giraud
7. Turn necks on Bridgeport with K&M tooling

PRESTO.....20 VT .150 Shorty emerges

All forming done on a 650 Dillon on two separate tool heads. I've made about 20K 20 VTs so this process is well established.
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Both of mine are barely even wildcats just straight neck downs from their parent case and both are Rem700 based builds wearing Hart barrels. First pic is 20-222 shooting 40gr Berger w/H322 and lower pic is 20-250 shooting Berger 55's w/RL16 Nothing particularly exotic or exciting about either build but generally when you use all good parts/pieces and a good gunsmith you end up with good results.

I don't know why but I've always wanted to take one of my CZ 527 17 Hornets and make it a 20 H Hornet and shoot something like that 24gr Hornady NTX bullet. For a medium-ish range ground squirrel/PD gun I've always thought something like that would be a fun one.
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I bought a 20 Ackley Hornet die from TK a few years ago and have a Martini action that needs a new barrel so have always meant to build a 20AI Hornet.

Looking at the pics in this thread is urging me to get my 20Tac finished.
Stiller action, Kreiger barrel and a HS Precision stock, jewell trigger, just need to crown the barrel and thread for moderator, then bed it into the stock.

Anybody here shoot the 20Duster?
 
Yes I have three, two Sakos and a BAT SV, I am late to the party here but will post some pics of them this weekend. Two are heavier for pds and one of the Sakos is for calling coyotes.
Matt

I used Jim Barkers 20 Duster years ago and he gave me a case for my collection, so I went and ordered a sizing die from CH and a reamer from PTG, too many projects and not enough time.
Now that Saubiers gone I need some starting points for load data

I've been looking for a left bolt 222 for a while but there don't seem to be to many of them around. I have a brand new Sako barrel in the white marked 222 Rem already chambered and threaded, but Sako didn't make the 461 in left bolt.
 
What bullet weights are you shooting out of your 20-250? Powders and velocities?
I built it with the sole purpose to shoot the Berger 55gr bullets. I'm using w/RL16 getting 3750 from a 26in Krieger 8tw barrel. I've always wanted to work up a load using RL26 because I think there's probably another 100-100+ fps I could get out of it with 26 but it shoots so good with 16 it makes it hard to even want to try.
 

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