My Favorite Prairie dog rifle

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.
 
I generally always grab a .17. Love my CZ .17 hornet, and my Cooper .17 AH, and my Rem. 700 limited .17 Fireball, and if I really need to reach out I grab the heavy barreled Savage .204. Run a suppressor on all of them. Killed about 1000 this summer.
I've been thinking about a 17 fireball...how do you like it for noise? Have you used it on larger critters?
 
I've been thinking about a 17 fireball...how do you like it for noise? Have you used it on larger critters?
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.
 
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.
 
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