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From POV of LR hunters, why the .17 Remington?
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1506985" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>Just the other day I surprised myself, I was up looking for a cow elk with my cousin, and while driving on the mountain road from one canyon we had glassed over to another, we spotted several blue grouse about 75 yards away in a small grassy clearing. We stopped, I grabbed my .22 pistol and started sneaking up to them. I got to about 15-20 yards away, picked one out and lined up on it, and popped it, but my shot missed the wing and only using 40 grain solids, it just poked a hole with no expansion. The grouse jumped up and began flying away, so knowing it was wounded, I lined up on it while it was still flying low and gave it what I felt was the appropriate amount of lead and squeezed another one off, and to my surprise the bird promptly fell to the ground! When I cleaned the bird, I found my first shot just barely went into the vitals behind the breast as the bird was broadside to me, and the second shot broke the neck right where it comes into the body. I shot my bull elk at 816, but by far my best shot this year was a flying grouse with a .22 pistol at less than 30 yards!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1506985, member: 87243"] Just the other day I surprised myself, I was up looking for a cow elk with my cousin, and while driving on the mountain road from one canyon we had glassed over to another, we spotted several blue grouse about 75 yards away in a small grassy clearing. We stopped, I grabbed my .22 pistol and started sneaking up to them. I got to about 15-20 yards away, picked one out and lined up on it, and popped it, but my shot missed the wing and only using 40 grain solids, it just poked a hole with no expansion. The grouse jumped up and began flying away, so knowing it was wounded, I lined up on it while it was still flying low and gave it what I felt was the appropriate amount of lead and squeezed another one off, and to my surprise the bird promptly fell to the ground! When I cleaned the bird, I found my first shot just barely went into the vitals behind the breast as the bird was broadside to me, and the second shot broke the neck right where it comes into the body. I shot my bull elk at 816, but by far my best shot this year was a flying grouse with a .22 pistol at less than 30 yards!! [/QUOTE]
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