Khornet
01-21-2013, 01:28 AM
I recently bought a beauty of a .17 FB from a friend and have totally enjoyed gathering up ammo, components and advice from forum members and retailers.
My hand loads have bettered the very good groups of the factory ammo slightly and with everything dialed in at 200y, several groups were "tiny" enough to satisfy me. So on Friday at daylight, I headed out on a mission to try it out on the local varmint population. I guess all the target shooting really paid off with this .5 moa gun. I shot this dog at 15 feet, sighting down the barrel as he looked for the source of noise when my slung rifle came off my shoulder while he passed behind a creek bank. He never knew what hit him as the 20g Rem round passed through his neck. He simply fell over backward in a tight ball and gradually relaxed without a kick....http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/Khornet/013_zpsb09dac75.jpg
My hand loads have bettered the very good groups of the factory ammo slightly and with everything dialed in at 200y, several groups were "tiny" enough to satisfy me. So on Friday at daylight, I headed out on a mission to try it out on the local varmint population. I guess all the target shooting really paid off with this .5 moa gun. I shot this dog at 15 feet, sighting down the barrel as he looked for the source of noise when my slung rifle came off my shoulder while he passed behind a creek bank. He never knew what hit him as the 20g Rem round passed through his neck. He simply fell over backward in a tight ball and gradually relaxed without a kick....http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/Khornet/013_zpsb09dac75.jpg