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It was extremely windy when I shot this video yesterday, and I didn’t realize until I went to process it that it’s shaky. I’m surprised, since it was on a tripod at the time, but, all is not lost, because the video still shows what a Hornady 17 grain ballistic tip bullet will do to a squirrel at around 100 yards.

I was worried that the 17 hmr ballistics wouldn’t give me the “pop and flop” that the .204, .223 and the 22-250 do, but for it’s price range, bullet weight and speed, it does a “right fine” job of putting sage rats to sleep.

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(Sung to the tune of the wheel of fortune ad on TV… You know, “I’m a wheel watcher, I’m a wheel watcher.” OK, you caught me, I’m a dork.)

Yesterday morning, Sunday the somethingth of May (Not really sure since I’m so dang tired), I took my trusty Savage .17 with the Accutrigger to Oregon and killed all their squirrels. No, really, I killed all the squirrels in Oregon yesterday by myself. Well, maybe the Verminator got one or two, but the rest of the dead squirrels in Oregon are mine. Muuhhaaa hhhaaaaa hhhaaaaa… (more…)

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I went to the shooting range last week and shot my Savage .17 HMR. The trigger pull was a dream, so I’m pretty sure it is going to be one of my favorite varmint guns, but I still need to shoot it some more to tighten up my groups.

At 100 yards, with my new Bushnell 6×18x50mm, this is what I shot with my 5 round groups: (more…)

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Here is the same 100 yard shot at an 11 oz. water bottle, but made with the .17hmr instead of the .204. the .17hmr is shooting a 17 grain, Nosler ballistic tip bullet at 2550 feet per second. The foot pounds of energy put out by the .17 has to be a miniscule fraction of what was put out by the preceding .204. (more…)

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I bought a new Savage stainless steel .17 HMR with synthetic stock and the AccuTrigger. The AccuTrigger is cool. I’ve always been too cheap to send a gun in for a trigger job, so buying a rifle that lets me adjust the trigger pull from 1.5 lbs to 6 lbs myself is awesome.

The idea behind the AccuTrigger is that trigger pull makes a big difference on accuracy, because the harder you have to pull, the more likely you are to pull off target. (more…)

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