This was shot with the original Hornaday V-MAX. I think?? It's the one with the red ballistic tip.

I would say that if the squirrel was a grey squirrel it would have ended up in 2 pieces. Normally the fox squirrels are a bit tougher.

This was about 10 months after the 17 hmr came out so the V-MAX was the only available ammo on the market.


I shot a frozen plastic bottle one evening at 40 yards. The results were one very little entrance hole and quite a bit of crushed ice. I let every thing melt and all that was left was about half the red tip, slivers of copper, and very very little lead. I would say 5 gains recovered in all.

This round, the HMR is just awesome. If I had a place to hunt I'd buy one in a heart beat. I just lost my main hunting ground in January[&o].

Gopher Slayer, would you agree that this is the exit hole????
Normaly I take head shots only on squirrels, I didn't sight the HMR in so I decided I take a body shot. I ended up with 4 squirrels that day. I got my first limit this year. All fox squirrels taken with a Marlin Model 60.


Your Right Luckypunk, It should have been a head shot. 4 outta 5 of these were.