One week

[dashrif]

Till total varmint carnage will happen

The Tools

Shooting bench
Laser Range Finder
Spotting Scope
Field Cleaning Kit
Canon Video Cam 37x Optical/2000x Digital zoom
Custom made (by me, fingers crossed) Range Card
Cooler for soft-drinks
1000rds of Hornady v-max
Savage BVSS 17 HMR bedded, reworked accutrigger under 2lb, re-cut crown and doing 5 round dimes @100







Nice and Symmetric


It's a Floater


Range Card for 17hmr fans drop and wind data from http://www.varmintal.com/17hmr.htm recompiled by me



Sat P-Dog all day in the panhandle

Sun-Mon Yote culling Got to give them Turkeys a hand up

Will post tallies and updates

Wish me luck

[Paladin]

1. Why?

Killing animals just for the sake of killing them---prairie dogs, whatever---what's the point?

That's a beautiful rifle; how about setting some paper targets out around 300 yards and seeing what you can do with it?

[dashrif]

2. Well

Its a 2mi x 3mi town that needs to be thinned, they can carry bubonic plague plus the rancher would like to run cattle again in that area. The dogs destroy the grass there is very little grass in the panhandle it is better to thin than poison the whole lot.

The coyotes are thick at my step dads place they are coming up to his house and this is the first time in five years we have had turkeys at his place and we would like to hunt them next year

So you see it not killing for the sake of it my hunting values would not let me do that.

And I can hit a 6moa at 300 with a little to no wind, but I would not shoot 300 at a p-dog 250 is the limit for a clean quick kill and 150 for a yote in the head if he stops.

[ManiacJoe]

3. Very nice.

For this type of shooting, I would have expected a slightly longer barrel. Folks with the AR15s in .223 often are using the 24 inch barrels for more speed and accuracy, but that might have to do with the difference in rounds.

[dashrif]

4. The sweet spot

seems to be 21in for the 17 hmr from http://www.varmintal.com/17hmr.htm

Bullberry Barrel Length vs. Velocity DATA
22 inch = 2517 fps, 103 fps spread
21 inch = 2523 fps, 66 fps spread
20 inch = 2515 fps, 86 fps spread
19 inch = 2538 fps, 83 fps spread
18 inch = 2522 fps, 41 fps spread
17 inch = 2505 fps, 43 fps spread
16 inch = 2492 fps, 53 fps spread
15 inch = 2477 fps, 27 fps spread
14 inch = 2432 fps, 70 fps spread
13 inch = 2419 fps, 32 fps spread
12 inch = 2387 fps, 57 fps spread
11 inch = 2338 fps, 45 fps spread
10 inch = 2276 fps, 45 fps spread