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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 98489" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Twice shot jack rabbit.</p><p></p><p>Me and a friend were out past Promontory, Utah one summer day shooting jack rabbits. I was carrying my 17 Rem with a 8X Lyman scope and we were walking through a strip of sage brush on the side of a rolling hill. Everything else was 6 inch tall cheat grass. A jack gets up and runs out into the cheat grass about 100 yds and stops and sits up. He has no where to go to get a way except to cross another 400 yds of open space. So I ask my friend if he believes I can shoot the rabbit through the ear and then kill it running. He knows better than to bet any money but obliges by saying I can't make either shot. </p><p></p><p>I get down in a kneeling position and settle the cross hairs on one ear and ease back on the trigger. The little 17 cracks and dust flies and the rabbit gets into high gear. For about 200 yds the rabbit is at full speed and I calmly work another round into the chamber and wait. The rabbit will have to make it out to 500 yds to get over the next rise and I got nothing but time. At about 300 yds the rabbit slows a little and hits a rabbit trail through the grass. The trail shows up in the scope as a dark line not quite straight away but maybe 15 degrees from straight away. I start timing the rabbit's speed and making mental calculations on lead and elevation. The rabbit gets put to about 400 yds and is slowed to a gentle lope so I pick a spot on the trail at what I believe to be 450 yds and and get the crosshairs elevated over the trail and wait for the rabbit to get to the correct point one the trail. I take up slack in the factory trigger and wait. When the rabbit gets about 18 inches from where I believe the bullet will land, I finish the squeeze. The 17 goes CRACK! Rabbit makes one flip and is DRT.</p><p></p><p>We walk over to inspect the rabbit and sure enough, there is a little 17 caliber hole in one ear.</p><p></p><p>All parts of this story are true except for the parts that are not true</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 98489, member: 8"] Twice shot jack rabbit. Me and a friend were out past Promontory, Utah one summer day shooting jack rabbits. I was carrying my 17 Rem with a 8X Lyman scope and we were walking through a strip of sage brush on the side of a rolling hill. Everything else was 6 inch tall cheat grass. A jack gets up and runs out into the cheat grass about 100 yds and stops and sits up. He has no where to go to get a way except to cross another 400 yds of open space. So I ask my friend if he believes I can shoot the rabbit through the ear and then kill it running. He knows better than to bet any money but obliges by saying I can’t make either shot. I get down in a kneeling position and settle the cross hairs on one ear and ease back on the trigger. The little 17 cracks and dust flies and the rabbit gets into high gear. For about 200 yds the rabbit is at full speed and I calmly work another round into the chamber and wait. The rabbit will have to make it out to 500 yds to get over the next rise and I got nothing but time. At about 300 yds the rabbit slows a little and hits a rabbit trail through the grass. The trail shows up in the scope as a dark line not quite straight away but maybe 15 degrees from straight away. I start timing the rabbit’s speed and making mental calculations on lead and elevation. The rabbit gets put to about 400 yds and is slowed to a gentle lope so I pick a spot on the trail at what I believe to be 450 yds and and get the crosshairs elevated over the trail and wait for the rabbit to get to the correct point one the trail. I take up slack in the factory trigger and wait. When the rabbit gets about 18 inches from where I believe the bullet will land, I finish the squeeze. The 17 goes CRACK! Rabbit makes one flip and is DRT. We walk over to inspect the rabbit and sure enough, there is a little 17 caliber hole in one ear. All parts of this story are true except for the parts that are not true [/QUOTE]
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