.17hmr

[buckmastr229]

what do you guy think of this gun for rabbits ? an just overrall

[gopher slayer]

the balistic tiped round completly destroys gopher, but im not sure about the hollow points. the gun is extremly accurat but on a windy day the bullet will drift bad. if you live somwhere with alot of wnd dont bother buying this calliber. you will be missing a hell of alot of targets.

[T/C fan!]

Like gopher said, the .17 has a lot of drift on a windy day. If you want to shoot rabbits with it, it'd better be a "profile" head-shot. Anything else and you'll destroy the meat. I put a head-shot on a squirrel, with a .17, looking straight at me and it blew one of his backlegs clean off.

[buckmastr229]

how would it be for the back woods of ny catskill mountains

[gopher slayer]

your not going to get any rickosheas, and if you just shooting to kill things its a fin gun but if your they to keep the meat, its not so great. the ballistic tip completely fragments and goes every where. heres a good site it will show you some pics of what the bullet will do.

http://www.varmintal.com/17hmr.htm

[abnhunter]

I hav a .17, but I don't think I'd use it for rabbits. Once the dogs scare one up, it takes off running. It's better to use a 20 gauge.