Mrwalleye3
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Have any of you seen or purchased one of these rifles yet?? If so how do you like it and how does it group? Are they even available yet?? None up here in Canada.
17 HMR Browning T bolt
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haven't played with the 17 hmr; no desire to. for the price of the ammo, i can load for my duce and get 3 times the bang, even in the wind. just my opinion. lots of guys say they shoot very accurate and splat gophers well, just not if there's any breeze. as far as the tbolt, i have a belgian 22, shoots right beside my anschutz 1522 with set trigger; and it shoots very well. i handled a new tbolt at the gun show; would not hesitate to buy one if i was in the market. i thought i saw a 17 on the shelf at wholesale in calgary, good luck standing in line to see for yourself, lee.
Since I shot a .17 hmr a few years back I will never own another .22lr. I agree in real windy conditions it gets off course a little bit, but the velocity and knock down is just amazing. I going to buy my daughter her first gun this year, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif and it will be a .17. I have harvested 4 or 5 coyotes with it. I would never dream about shooting a coyote with a .22lr unless it was a close head shot.
It took my .22lr and and .17hmr PD shooting, with body shots it took two maybe three shots with the 22lr and only one with the .17, they just go splat with the V MAX round.
It took my .22lr and and .17hmr PD shooting, with body shots it took two maybe three shots with the 22lr and only one with the .17, they just go splat with the V MAX round.
utahpredator_7
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I haven't really taken my hmr to its max, but I've shot targets accurately at 300 yards. I killed a rabbit at 150 and one at 200 yards today. I've shot my .22 at 250 (hit a clay pigeon, it took a few shots, about 10, but I did it) and at 300 yards too. I have it sighted in way higher than I should, but it still shoots well enough to hit a milk jug 4-5 times out of ten, and it's just a stock 10/22 off a bipod. Taking that into account, I should be able to go farther with my hmr, if the wind isn't blowing. T-bolt HMR sounds sweet though, I've heard real good things about the .22 ones, and my uncle has one that I really like.