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

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.

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.

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

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

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.