1wildcatfan
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17 HMR out to 150 until the Wy wind picks up. Sometimes only a couple of hours of shooting.
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My Favorite Prairie dog rifle
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Ha ha.. I live in Wy. Shooting with wind is a way of life here.
Laser Man
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I shoot in North Dakota, and pretty breezy up here too. That's why I use the portable/swivel bench. Shoot into the wind or with it. Just keep moving perpendicular to the wind direction, and you can shoot that 17 HMR all day. If you're accurate out to 150 yards, you can cover 300 yards at a time.
Revolting Peasant
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I have an old Savage single shot, solid bottom target action rifle, long action in .223 set up as a switch barrel multi caliber test mule from way back when. Multiple bolt heads and bolts.
Revolting Peasant
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Then I built an Origin short action in .223 and set up the headspace to match the old Savage so I have a pair.
Seriously looking at building a .20P.
Seriously looking at building a .20P.
I've been thinking about a 17 fireball...how do you like it for noise? Have you used it on larger critters?
TRnCO
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I run a suppressor on every rifle, so noise is not a concern.
I have not used the fireball in anything other than prairie dogs. I have a .17/204 on use on coyotes.
sw282
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17-204? l bet that's speedy
That's what I was thinking
sw282
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Likely
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TRnCO
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I'm running 30 gr. bullets just a touch over 4000fps in the .17/204. There's a few guys that push theirs harder than that, but I've been very satisfied with the performance of it.
fallsinhole
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Shoot an AR 223 24" 12TW with 40gr Vmax, have had great success with the dog hunts! Windy days I shoot an AR 223 20" Stainless 8 TW with 60 gr Vmax! Both rifles perform quite well!! Fun rifles on the dogs!!
