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By: hatch270

hatch270 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:39:29 +0000

Sounds like you had a great time. Don’t forget how quickly that light bullet loses energy. On smaller game like squirrels and cottontails, you can get away with 150-200 yard kill shots. At 100 yards that caliber has reached its limit for coyote size game. I coyote call on a regular basis. One of my calling partners brought along his new .17HMR. He hit one dawg out around 130 yards that took off running. Fortunately I was onto it quick and nailed it with my .223. Having wondered how effective the .17′s would be at long distance, I gutted the coyote to find out what the bullet had done. My friend had a pretty good quartering to broadside shot. He hit it just behind the shoulder, in line to take out the heart and lungs. The bullet penetrated through the first lung, but stopped against the heart. That dawg would have gone off and eventually died, but definitely not an ethical thing to do. My friend now uses the gun for rabbits, squirrels, and prairie dogs. If we are calling coyotes he brings his 22-250.

By: Tim Ford

Tim Ford — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:38:44 +0000

Sounds like a great time at the range. I need to get out to the range myself sometime. Can you reload those? I am assuming not since it is a rimfire round.

By: Bob Rich

Bob Rich — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:49:45 +0000

Awesome Mike! What a nice rifle/scope combo! Here’s a ballistic chart I posted on my blog. Check out the curves: http://bp1.blogger.com/_qQVfY1Pu7yU/RkHcK8ajyKI/AAAAAAAAAo4/kmR5xrefC50/s1600-h/Ballistics+17+vs+22.jpg