.17hmr
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Posts: 564
RE: .17hmr
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.
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: central Ky
Posts: 601
RE: .17hmr
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.
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Posts: 564
RE: .17hmr
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
http://www.varmintal.com/17hmr.htm