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17 Remington
Sam06
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I have one and its been a great gun for many years. I shot the biggest Coyote I even called with it. The coy dog was 55#'s and looked like a wolf, this was in WA State by the Nisqually River, near the reservation but on the Ft Lewis land.
The gun was stole once but I got it back after about 2 months.
I had some ammo loaded and I shot it today.
What a fun gun and man it kills all out of proportion to what it is. Like PO Ackley said it kills like electrocution.
anyone else have one.
The gun was stole once but I got it back after about 2 months.
I had some ammo loaded and I shot it today.
What a fun gun and man it kills all out of proportion to what it is. Like PO Ackley said it kills like electrocution.
anyone else have one.
RLTW
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Mine Still has the Leupold 10X scope on it. I had two other buddies that had them also.
We could still legally spotlight coyotes and fox on BLM ground and State sections in Wyoming during that time. We stacked a bunch of $100 fox and $125 coyotes in the Red desert, Upper green river country, Gas Hills, and lower Bighorns.
Bobcats, since being furbearers, could only be shot in daylight, so we didn't get as many, but we got several.
Then 1982 rolled around and Govt changed the rules and our spotlighting days except on private ground were over.
It is a great one hole round for varmits/ furbearers, as long as shot in chest or abdomen.
If you shoot fox/coyote/ bobcat in the neck area, the hydrostatic expansion in the muscle will blow their head clean off. Same if animal is going straight away and you try to slip one up the backdoor and get off a little, it will blow a leg off making a big sewing job when you put it on the stretcher.
And that's not hearsay, I've done it and seen others do it.
It's a fun round, my kids loved to shoot prairie dogs and ground squirrels with it. Red mist and if you shot one in top of the head, it would fling them cartwheeling into the air.
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I was checking out reloading supplies while waiting for the gun counter clerk to complete the sale he had just made to my buddy. I wondered down the bullet aisle and discovered small brass and small bullets and small powder loads cost less than the big cartridges. Yeehawww!
I opened a box of .17 bullets and discovered I couldn't pick up one of those tiny little bullets with my big fat fingers.
I still don't own a 17.
I bought a Rem 788 in 222 at a gun show, the gun was rusty and the barrel was pitted, rusty and in bad shape. I think I gave $50 for the gun and man was it ugly. I had a friend who was a gunsmith and a machinist. We pulled the barrel off and I bead blasted the receiver to get rid of the rust. Then I got a 17 rem barrel from Remington, cut off the threads and re-threaded it and chambered it. I bead blasted the barrel then sprayed the whole barreled receiver with a Bake on spray that I cannot remember the name of but it came out kind of grey. I sanded the stock, glass bedded the action and free floated the barrel. The sprayed it with cammo paint. Yeh it was ugly but Man that gun would shoot! I killed so much stuff with that gun. Before I ever shot it I cleaned/polished the barrel with JB's so it was smooth and that gun would not foul as fast as other 17's. I had a fixed 6x Burris scope on it with fine crosshairs and a dot.
One time I shot 2 Foxs on a frozen lake way up on the Weyerhaeuser land above Eatonville WA. I used a fishing pole with a treble hook and big weight on it to snag them off the ice. I kind of wish I had kept the gun but my buddy still has it and shoots it. He lives in SD so he gets to hunt varmints.
Another thing I like about the 17 is it likes my favorite powders the same powder I use in 223, 308, 30-06; IMR 4895, 3031, 4064. I really like the Berger bullets 17 cal 25gr FBHP. I have the brass forming dies to turn 223 into 17 rem so I will never run out of brass.
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Not bad but you have to be careful. I keep my loads down 3850-3900 fps. I never shoot long strings maybe 2 shots cool down 1 or 2 more shots, maybe 20 rounds in a day and that would be alot(Its a Hunting gun and I would say the most Coyotes I called in a day was 4 or 5).
You have to keep them clean the will foul fast. Like I said I seat the bullets almost on the lands, I don't but I think that extends barrel life.
Mine still shoots good, its 35 years old and I would say I have shot it about 800 times.