Went to play golf shooting with my Ruger Precision 17HMR

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1bdvet

Bearcat
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Today went to play some golf at the range shooting at 100 Yards.
I took my Ruger Precision 17HMR, and my Mossberg 223/556 today.
I placed my target at 100 Yards, and Golf Ball behind target on the hill.
So I fired Mossberg and you can see hit the golf ball flying, shot second golf ball and never found it, it also went flying someplace. I put two rounds into right target to make sure my Vortex scope was still dead on target.
Then came the Ruger, I had two Golf Balls out there, and shot after shot, it seemed I couldn't hit it, tried another golf ball, same thing, so I just unloaded into Left target making sure the Nikon Scope was still zero in, has you can see it was on the money.
So when the range went cold, was going to move the golf balls to another spot.
Low and behold I was hitting them, but shooting 17HMR it didn't have enough power to put a hole in the ball, or move the ball.
Next trip going to paint the balls Orange, easy to see them, since the range has white Coral, hard to see them, and taking Green Tips 556 Ammo.


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mike7mm08

Buckeye
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I had a similar experience shooting clay pigeons with my 17HMR. Could not believe I was missing at fifty yards. Go and check the clays. Nice clean little perfect holes, looked like they were drilled. Never seen anything pencil through a clay, they always shatter.
 
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