New 17HMR

[Longshot270]

The gun...


I love wood stocked bolt actions. Wouldn't mind a darker reddish stain but I have no way to do that myself.



This is the range. I could have pumped over a million rounds into the groupings the police officers next to me were getting with their ARs.

The groupings I have are not my best ever. I haven't shot ANY rifle since september of last year and that was a single round from my .270...so I'm kinda rusty.

I also decided to get a base line without adjusting the scope or anything besides turning the range finder and magnification.

The first shots, I was twitching quite a bit.
50 yds Hornady


75 yds Hornady


100 yds Hornady


Then I pulled those plates and switched to my box of Winchester just as some officers were showing up for practice.

Winchester 50 yds

Flinched on the first shot and twitched on the second. One of them must have been shooting a 7.62 because the other .223s were not that loud.

Winchester 75 yds


Winchester 100 yds


Then I started making adjustments.

50 yds

You can see it was basically walking until I switched to using one of the mil dots instead of the cross hairs. This also had a mix of ammo so there actually two patterns of groupings in it.

100 yds

Mix of ammo and making adjustments. The 50 yd plate was getting too crowded for sighting in.