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Krico 401 17HMR
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Heres the Krico 17HMR I picked up in Bendigo. came with a 8x56 Seadler scope.
Set up as a match rifle so not my usual style. Handles very well.
Have put it to use on the bunnies and picked up a couple of bonus foxes Impressed with rifle and cal, performance.
heres some pics, cheers Mick
140m first fox with HMR
NitroX
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| 23/10/22 09:09 PM |
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Good man!
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| 23/10/22 09:10 PM |
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Huge stock on it.
| tinker |
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| 24/10/22 01:21 AM |
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Definitely looks fancy, fluted barrel too
Is there a sporting stock available for you to put that metal into?
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| 24/10/22 03:29 AM |
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Nice indeed, for a varmint rifle. Interesting it is set up as a match rifle, however in a good action and barrel, the HMR is exceptionally accurate for a rim fire ctg.
My Martini Cadet in HMR has made groups as small as 3/8" at 10 meters and 5/8" in a nasty switching wind.
It is marvelous on head shots. The bulging eyes speak for the 'explosive' little pills once they get inside. I've seen this on our Columbia Ground Squirrels as well.
Too, oft times, the guts (or most of them) would be in a pile coming out the entrance hole, with no exit.
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| 25/10/22 01:03 AM |
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The rifle isn't my style but, if it's accurate and you like it, that's all that matters. Well, if you like it, it doesn't have to be that accurate...lol, but, obviously it is. I do have a question about the hares/rabbits, however. Are they hares or rabbits? Are they native to Oz? Do you guys eat them? We about lived off rabbits and squirrels when I was a kid with the occasional quail and rare deer....and fish.
The red fox, are they native or did some soul import them?
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| 25/10/22 11:36 AM |
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The rifle isn't my style but, if it's accurate and you like it, that's all that matters. Well, if you like it, it doesn't have to be that accurate...lol, but, obviously it is. I do have a question about the hares/rabbits, however. Are they hares or rabbits? Are they native to Oz? Do you guys eat them? We about lived off rabbits and squirrels when I was a kid with the occasional quail and rare deer....and fish.
The red fox, are they native or did some soul import them?
The rabbits, hares, foxes , and deer are all non natives. The rabbits are taken for the table. Like you I grew up eating local game.
Hares are common here, I don't usual shoot them.
Very happy with the rifle and calibre Cheers Mick
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| 25/10/22 12:43 PM |
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Thanks for that Mick, I'm grateful. You have more rabbits laying there than I've seen around here in the last 10 years and if I see a quail every 3-4 years, that's braggin' rights. Toooooooo many predators. Whitetail deer, they're a nuisance these days but were as scarce as hen's teeth when I was a kid.
Red foxes, we have a few but, the coyotes have about run them out or killed them off and, I haven't seen a gray fox in 40 years. Squirrels....good grief, they were lousy this year.
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| 25/10/22 02:34 PM |
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Hares have short ears, rabbits have long ears.
We have snowshoe hares (varying hares) here and the odd bush bunny(smaller than an Eastern cotton tail rabbit) in the mountains. Those are protected still, I think - not many of them.
Not much better than the good, sweet and sour snowshoe bunny stew my bro used to make for the Rod and Gun Club's wild game banquet. My kids used to get "hyper" eating bunny or most any wild meat, especially deer or elk.
Back east in the Southern Ontario, we had European hares - large ones, 10 to 12 pounds about, along with cotton tail rabbits.
My dog got the Euro's and we ate the cotton tail rabbits.
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| 25/10/22 07:00 PM |
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Hares have short ears, rabbits have long ears.
We have snowshoe hares (varying hares) here and the odd bush bunny(smaller than an Eastern cotton tail rabbit) in the mountains. Those are protected still, I think - not many of them.
Not much better than the good, sweet and sour snowshoe bunny stew my bro used to make for the Rod and Gun Club's wild game banquet. My kids used to get "hyper" eating bunny or most any wild meat, especially deer or elk.
Back east in the Southern Ontario, we had European hares - large ones, 10 to 12 pounds about, along with cotton tail rabbits.
My dog got the Euro's and we ate the cotton tail rabbits.
Opposite for European rabbits and hares. Hares have longer ears than rabbits.
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| 25/10/22 07:57 PM |
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I typed a long post but decided to not derail Mick's thread so started a new one.
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I do have a question about the hares/rabbits, however. Are they hares or rabbits? Are they native to Oz? Do you guys eat them? We about lived off rabbits and squirrels when I was a kid with the occasional quail and rare deer....and fish.
The red fox, are they native or did some soul import them?
I'm amazed anyone has not heard of the Australian rabbit plagues. If you want to see masses of rabbits search those three words. Rabbits were introduced to Australia with British colonists. Escaped and spread by the millions. In the 1950s they literally covered the land in places. In the 1960s or 70s myxomatosis was introduced and killed off huge numbers of rabbits. In the 1989s or 90s calici virus was introduced.
Cut and snipped to a new thread:
Rabbit, Hare and Fox Hunting thread
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Good to see you amongst the foxes Mick - bloody pests they are!