What's Youre Longest Rimfire Kill

[William D Mansfield]

Hello guys,
I thought it would be fun to tell what our longest kill shot was, mine was
286 yards. on a woodchuck,last summer.He never knew what hit him,I was using 20 grain Hornady XTP bullets.I shot 2 chucks yesterday,my first of the year .Well good luck and have a great day.

[William D Mansfield]

Sorry guys
I was using my Savage 93R17 HMR

[T.D.C.]

Steel ram at 100 yd with a 22 short. just barely moved it enough to rock on the railroad raol and tip over. you could have drank a cup of coffee waiting for the clink . elevation about 30 inches

[Larry D Scott]

many in the 250-260 range. Shooting a 452 CZ 17 HMR w/6.5-20 Leupold 8oz Brooks trigger. Larry in western Ky.

[glenn asher]

Roughly 250 yards with a Marlin 17V .17HMR. It wasn't pretty, and I haven't tried it since. Even prairie dogs deserve a clean killing shot. I hit it nice and clean, but it took forever to die.

[joez]

I honestly don't remember, but I was at the range last fall and shooting the peices of the orange clay birds at 175yd with my 513S. Now that was fun, shoot and watch the bullet hit.
Joe

[Mike Casselton]

and one of the old Burris Mini 3X scopes and Federal cheapo rounds. Hit a PD at 240 and he just fell over dead. I switched guns after that so I wouldn't have to try it again...

[Rhys]

207 on PD with 77/22 using CCI Mini-Mags. Wind was left to right, and had to hold about 4 feet of wind. I've shot the gongs on my range out to 300 with the same setup.

[kid]

The best I've done is a little over 180 yds. with my Savage 93R17. I went 6 for 6 on jack rabbits between 140 and about 185. After that I switched to my .223 for the ones over 200. It cost as much to shoot the HMR as it does the .223 but it sure is fun.

[TXNinVA]

Nothing fancy, groundhog at 50 yards with a 22LR.

I don't go for long, I sneak in for short.

[Ole' Man River]

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[William D Mansfield]

I know what you mean about sneaking in close.I once got with in 5 yards of a woodchuck while I was wearing my ghille suit last summer,I was in a soybean field.

[James in Asheville]

My longest kill was 310yds on a groundhog with my 541 Remy
and Russian Junior ammo that I hollow pointed upper chest shot.
He fell instantly......after the bullet got there 1080fps I think.
Several have fallen between that and 125yds....it's like sniping from a mile away.;)

[Southpaw]

Gopher @315 yards , It was across a coulee and in a fallowed field. Could see every shot hit . It was one of those days when the wind was blowing 40MPH out of the West . Had my Licea Range finder . Wind was gusting , Jack kept looking @ me after every shot wondering why he didn't hear the "Smack" Finally I got lucky and the Gopher just flopped over and laid still . With the wind it never knew I was shooting @ it . Kept elevating and holding for the wind till I walked it in there . Probably ranks as one of the most expensive gophers I ever shot ! :rolleyes:

[Larry in VA]

Years ago (shortly after Vietnam) was Ground Hogging with friends on a hilly & rocky cattle farm out around Winchester VA. That day was unusually windy, the other three guys in my party were using 222Rem and 22-250’s all I had was my child hood Remington Nylon 11 with its 463 lb trigger pull. Ground hogs were not cooperating that day as they would dive for cover at first sight of us. I spotted one directly down wind from me with its back toward me. I ground crawled my way to a rock out cropping to use as a rest and held that Nylon 11 iron sights on top of Lil piggy’s head and between his ears. (I was picturing a straw hat and black pajamas on that whistle pig.) I new before I squeezed the trigger that this was a Hail Marry shot, if there ever was one, but what the heck no one else in party had connected that day due to the wind. That little 40gr HP severed the neck bone at the base of the skull and he dropped like a sack of potatoes. Gotta love it when a plan comes together even if it is a long shot. We measured a tad over 250 yards, to much water under this bridge to recollect exactly, but that’s my story and I’m stickin to it. :p The wind carried that 22LR bullet that far down range with out any more drop than 4 or 5 inches. Hard to believe, but true. ;)

[CJ in Wy]

I used to strech the 22lr and 17HMR out past 300 useing a mildot setup for it, longest was 345 BUT A rimfire just does not have enough left @ that range to do a good job of killing.
These days I limit the rimfires to inside of 150yards and bring out the centerfires after that.

[QuickRick]

Compared to the other responders to your post I hate to admit such an anemic range, but it was about 160 yards. This was with a 22 WMR on a ground squirrel in Montana.....

[cal74]

I used to strech the 22lr and 17HMR out past 300 useing a mildot setup for it, longest was 345 BUT A rimfire just does not have enough left @ that range to do a good job of killing.
These days I limit the rimfires to inside of 150yards and bring out the centerfires after that.


I feel the same way. Out of all these long shots how many more animals crawl away and die sometime later. Only thing that deserves to suffer is some child molester or a murderer. Take them and put them as far away as possible and spend all day plinking away.

[AndyM]

Mine was only about 125 yds. when my Marlin 25MN .22mag was my primary hog gun.

[Doug Roberts]

You guys talk about anemic distance kills. This may make you feel better. I've shot a number of p dogs with a HMR, probably none much beyond 100. However, one of my most memorable was my first ever double which was taken with a Rem 33 gr VMax from a Marlin 25MN at about 60 yards. I didn't even see the one hiding back there until the front one went down DRT and the second was flopping around.

A buddy claimed a 310 kill on a p dog with a HMR. I think the bullet came down on top of it's head, stunned it, and it fell behind the mound. :D

I don't often try those longer shots with a rimfire although it is fun to lob a round or two way out there now and then.

[gonzo gunner]

according to the lazer range finder it was 234 yards on a starlin in a fence roll. the funny thing was he fell down dead but his feet held him to the fence. in the late spring that was like a decoy because others would land beside him!! i killed dozens that day. i like the hmr, but birds are the only thing i will take shots like that on out passed 150 yards. the hmr is a very accurate gun, but passed 150 yards i would rathe use the .223 on anything bigger than a bird.

a friend of mine wants to shoot a yote with a .22 caliber pellet rfle. it runs off a scubba tank. he charges it with the tank then he's free to shoot it. why he wants to try this is beyond me, but who really knows.

[dbd870]

Add me to the wimpy list. Groundhog a little under 100yds. with a 22WMR.

[cpttango30]

I hit a steel ram at 250 yards with a Winchester M62 and open sights.

[Carl St. Louis]

While prairie dog shooting in South Dakota 7-8 years ago my shooting buddy Peter made the shot.
I've made shots out past 250 yds but he holds our record.
The cool thing is we have 24X scopes and can see the bullet coming in from the top of the view.

[CTtackdriver]

.22 mag 100-125 yards into a yotes lungs KNOWING it wouldnt drop him and did it deliberate. Bastard had one of my birds in his mouth and i wanted him to crawl up into the mud and prickers in and swap and drown in his own blood.

[Chuck from arkansaw]

The range was 125 long steps. It was really too far to shoot, bit it was a perfect setup. There was no wind, I was set up on sand bags, and she was laying flat on her belly with her head sticking out like it was on a chopping block. A little off would be a clean miss.

I held over about 9" and squeezed off the shot. The only reaction I got was the tail going up, twiching 3 times and dropping down limp.

Crutching my way out across the sprouting bean I found the shot had hit her square in the right ear.

was using a Marlin 39A with a straihgt 6 power 1" Tasco rifle scope. My ammo was Winchester LR hollowpoints. 1971 or 2.

[scatterbrains]

jeez, farthest kill on a groundhog prob 150yds, remington 541s./with anemic 4x scope. Now with the new scope farthest to steel gong, 250yds.

[deathwind II]

A groundhog @ 190. Died instantly from lucky (for me, not g-hog) head shot. Savage 93 HMR with 17 gr.Vmax. Now using Hornady 20 gr. "gamepoints".
Sworn off rimfire shots at more than 100 yds. on game this size or bigger for ethical reasons.

[William D Mansfield]

I know what you mean about the 20 grain.I only use Hornady 20 grain XTP bullets,they have great penetration with good expansion

[Coyote Duster]

About 40 years ago I shot a pigeon sitting on a rock in the pasture at around 250 yards, on the first shot, with a 10-22 and iron sights. I even had a witness, but I think I was more suprized than he was. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than skilled and that was one of those times.

[T.D.C.]

not a surprised as the pigeon

[Rhys]

Increase that to a half dozen PD's or so at 220, and one at 368. Witnessed by Rstoll and Altejaeger.

[ColoradoP]

I have a 17 M2 ,,,, funnnnnn gun,,,, but as someone here said, even a Prairie Dog deserves a quick kill... I think that 150 yrds is all the money,,,,I probably average shoot closer to 125 yrds to be clean.

[Bayou City Boy]

17 HMR..... On a big dog coyote. The gun went off and he was DRT.... Darndest thing I've ever seen...

He was standing 45 degree broadside facing me and the bullet hit him in the top of the head and angled down through his body. There was a massive wound channel of at least two feet once that little bullet got inside that coyote. Not a bit of fur damage however...!

I was just 16 or 17 at the time ...back in the 1960's... That's when I first knew the 17HMR was the real thing on coyotes. I got rid of my Trapdoor Springfield 45-70 right after that and never looked back..... No need. ;) :D

Edited to ad: The rifle was new...never been shot... A Savage RF with no sights on it. I hadn't had time to mount a scope the first time I took it hunting, but I had heard so much about Savage accuracy RightOutOfTheBox that I gave it a try. Just pointed it uphill a little bit at that coyote and the rest is Savage accuracy demonstrated first hand...

Oh.... I called the coyote in from over two miles away with a home made call I made on the kitchen table using an old flashlight box to put the 8-Track tape machine in.....;) @ two miles was the distance I first saw him from, and so I ranged him with my Tasco 5 MILE range finder....1.9783 miles away at the time. Sure hated to see Tasco quit making that one... Used a Sears garage door remote to power the caller from almost 1k yards away, so the coyote never knew I was around... I had on full camo....even on my eyelids in cased I napped a little bit...

The reason I'm guessing a little bit on the range I shot him at...? He was DRT right behind a big pine tree with a big rock right beside it, and the laser wouldn't pick him up laying there with only about 3 inches of his tail and a little bit of one hind foot showing...

JMI -BCB

[Coyote Duster]

There wasn't such a thing as a 17 HMR back then. I don't remember exactly when it was invented, but I think it was less than 10 years ago.

[Bayou City Boy]

There wasn't such a thing as a 17 HMR back then. I don't remember exactly when it was invented, but I think it was less than 10 years ago.

Mine was a pre-production proto-type...

-BCB

[Kermit in Va.]

BCB...You ain't right!!! LOL...LOL...LOL...


Donnie

[DDgofer]

146 laser range finder yards on a juvenile gopher with Bulk box .22 LR ammo, Ruger 10-22 with stock internal's Midway heavy barrel and Fajen laminated stock, Tasco Mag IV 4-16x40 yesterday. 2 shots for the hit.

246 paced and Laser range finder yards with a bulk box .22 LR, factory Remington 581, Tasco Mag IV 4-16-40 a couple of years ago. 3 shots to hit.

126 laser range finder yards with Eley 17 HM2 ammo in BSA 1215, Simmons 6.5-20x, first shot hit.

Humm, looks like the sixes are lucky for me...

[DKA]

100 yds + with Marlin 22 Mag with 40 Gr. Winchester Hollow Points.

[bunt0025]

There wasn't such a thing as a 17 HMR back then. I don't remember exactly when it was invented, but I think it was less than 10 years ago.

It was one of those old HMR birdshot rounds!

[Alycidon]

Approx 120 yards with a sub sonic hollow point.

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