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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    Darn, wouldn't you know it!
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    I can see why the Hornet based cartridges would be a tougher one to get to feed but one based off 221FB should be easy to do, especially the AI version since it's almost a straight case. If they would design the action to take a chamber bevel at the end of the barrel that would solve a lot of...
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    New scope for a western hunt?

    It does feel that way sometimes. Had a IOR go down during a match, and a March 5-42 that had poor IQ at 42x. Had a Bushnell 8-32 AO with lash go back, a Bushnell 6-18 quit, a USO 3.2-17 with just about the worst IQ that I've seen, a S&B 3-20 which had to be sent back twice, and I'm sure more...
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    Rifle Scopes March 5-42 Gen 2 PRS Edition – FML-WBR or FML-MT? Seeking feedback from those who've switched from tree reticles

    Seems PRS shooters have become super efficient at dialing fast and refining economy of motion! I would have, well did, time out on occasion if I dialed the whole stage. As it was back then I'd hold over much of the time unless it was a fixed distance. I never won a bigger match but I got 2nd a...
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    If I was made of money I'd buy a Anschutz 1727F in 17 hmr just because I like that action so much. The cartridge not near as. I shot a crow at est 160-170 yards with a Ruger 17 hmr and it flew off even though it looked like a halfway decent hit. Probably a low hit but not much oomph left out...
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    If there ever was a nifty centerfire varmint cartridge when considering these - low recoil, flat trajectory, ease of hand loading, common components, high precision, low barrel heat per rounds shot in succession, and long barrel life, it'd have to be 20 Vartarg or the AI version. These based off...
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    I've been bothering him for years about this subject. This is something that's missing in the varmint world as far as repeaters go. I'm sure it's a low demand thing so not much money to be made. However they'd still sell decently.
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    Yeah on that, and a few more reasons I sold my 17's, well except for my A17.
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    Is the .17HMR really much better than .22LR for varmints?

    Oh how I wish my CZ 527 in 20VT AI had 10 round mags that fed those 32 grainers, going 3760 fps, perfectly. Or someone, you know like that dude of former Vudoo fame, would make us a super short custom action, and custom mags, for short cartridges. There's few guns left that I really would...
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    New scope for a western hunt?

    I sold a friend one of my SWFA 3-15's six months before what I'm about to say had happened. He had been shooting as I rounded the corner and he's giving me a miffed look. Another friend standing close to him says hey his turret came off in his hand and sure enough it had broke off! I said the...
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    New scope for a western hunt?

    I used to have the NXS 2.5-10x24 on my AR for years. Not a bad scope but not great either, worth the money to me, maybe at first, then the years went by. IQ not that good, no parallax adjustment, BDC, and other things that I wasn't enthused about. It didn't break so there's that. I found the...
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    Airguns Beating Rimfires

    My old eyes, meaning not seeing exactly where I was missing, was a main reason I quit shooting precision rifle comps, that and my physicality. I aged out as far as winning goes. Fortunately I can still see good enough to score high or sometimes win my division with airgun in UFT or FT. That...
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    Airguns Beating Rimfires

    When I won the centerfire AZPRC long range steel series the 2nd year in a row one of the competitors I didn't know all that well came up to me and asked what my secret was, so I told him - that I had been shooting Field Target air rifle competitions for years. He looked at me in unbelief...
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    New scope for a western hunt?

    My March DFP 1.5-15x42 in Mil came in a week ago so here's some comments about it. The IQ is better than I thought it would be based on the IQ in my March DFP 1-10x28. 15x is fine yet a little out of focus at the edges of the FOV periphery. Not great that this is the case but I knew that going...
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    New scope for a western hunt?

    Things I'd rather have; If FFP a reticle thick enough to actually see on low magnification. If not then I'd want daylight bright illumination as a feature. Or at minimum have illume vs no illume. I always want to have daylight bright illume on every scope I own but.... When it's needed it can...
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    The new Athlon Ares BTR G3 2.5-15x50, initials, and ongoing thoughts.

    Okay I see what you mean. Maybe later today I'll get some scopes out to locate the differences in rolling ball affect. I guess I'm used to that too???
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    The new Athlon Ares BTR G3 2.5-15x50, initials, and ongoing thoughts.

    Man you're making me want to get out mine again to see if I can see the things you saw. "When parallax is adjusted all the way down at low magnification, there is significant barrel distortion, with a "rolling ball" effect." Was the object you were intending to look at in perfect focus? I ask...
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    Airguns Beating Rimfires

    Yes there's all that. Wishing I had a Anschutz 1727F APR 22RF. It's the only powder burner I really want. Heck I'd even go back to NRL22 or PRS22 matches again to see how much better it is to have a heavy but balanced rifle system designed for Precision Rifle Sports. My old 1827F is neither
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    Rifle Scopes Is there a market for a good MPVO

    On low magnification(maybe not on 1x if FFP but depends on reticle design) the tip top of the tree could be used as the pointer to the center dot, or the crosshair. Even better if having daylight bright illume. And at very close range you can use the whole tree like a chevron. Remember that...
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    Vortex Razor LHT

    As much as I dislike the compromised IQ on higher magnification I think I'm going to get a March DFP 1.5-15×42. Wish it was a little lighter but there's no perfect scope. I used the March 1-10 enough recently that I found DFP and a daylight bright dot to be great features I enjoyed in...
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