Never thought too much of the 17 centerfires, got a rem fireball from a fellow 'hider for my good lady to work over the red/gray fox population with. She hates recoil and I though this'd do her up just fine.
In the process of getting it set up for her....I went in had a required physical for work. The second one in three weeks, also by accident. As it turns out, I have the widowmaker. which means a quadruple bypass at 42 years old! How 'bout that for a kick in the ass? No reason to whine about it, get to cutting and fixing. So I'm doing fine and back to work but my buddy the heart surgeon tells me no recoil for a year. Let's make sure that breast bone is healed up good before you start booting the crap out of it with your big guns.
Enter the good lady's 17 fireball. This time home, we were cleaning out the barn and I had a shit ton of questionable duck/chicken eggs. We put them out as bait on the far side of the creek and set up coverage. I will say this, I'm impressed to hell with this little non-recoiling cartridge. In the course of the first week I killed 3 yotes and 5 gray foxes,a coon and a couple of possums. The shots were avg 120-150yds and they were lethal! I was so impressed on the 'yotes hitting the ground dead from that little 20grn accupoint.
All this has really opened my eyes to some small caliber possibilities.
My point for all this meandering around is that fun can come from really small packages, you just need to be in the right frame of mind!
Cheers,
Breeze
In the process of getting it set up for her....I went in had a required physical for work. The second one in three weeks, also by accident. As it turns out, I have the widowmaker. which means a quadruple bypass at 42 years old! How 'bout that for a kick in the ass? No reason to whine about it, get to cutting and fixing. So I'm doing fine and back to work but my buddy the heart surgeon tells me no recoil for a year. Let's make sure that breast bone is healed up good before you start booting the crap out of it with your big guns.
Enter the good lady's 17 fireball. This time home, we were cleaning out the barn and I had a shit ton of questionable duck/chicken eggs. We put them out as bait on the far side of the creek and set up coverage. I will say this, I'm impressed to hell with this little non-recoiling cartridge. In the course of the first week I killed 3 yotes and 5 gray foxes,a coon and a couple of possums. The shots were avg 120-150yds and they were lethal! I was so impressed on the 'yotes hitting the ground dead from that little 20grn accupoint.
All this has really opened my eyes to some small caliber possibilities.
My point for all this meandering around is that fun can come from really small packages, you just need to be in the right frame of mind!
Cheers,
Breeze
