{"id":1480,"date":"2008-08-21T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2008-08-21T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:32:26","slug":"heavy-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>.17 HMR<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I did it. I bought myself a rifle. Not used. Not a milsurp. A totally new, supposedly super-accurate bolt-action rifle. I picked a Savage .17 HMR with a varmint barrel. <a href='http:\/\/www.savagearms.com\/93r17fvss.htm'target='_blank'>You can see it at this link.<\/a> I decided to go for stainless. Not sure why. I just felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I should be able to get a grip on rifle shooting. I won&#8217;t have to worry about putting a weird mount on a gun not made for a scope. I won&#8217;t have to worry about Romanian trigger slap or the flexing of a nylon stock. Just point and shoot.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll get a Burris Fullfield II scope, with a maximum magnification of 14. That ought to be about right, and it&#8217;s not obscenely expensive. I already have a Fullfield on my K31, and it seems very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully next week I&#8217;ll be able to get to the range and wring this thing out.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the .17 HMR is good for. I mentioned Varmint Al, the guy who shoots ground squirrels with .17 HMR rifles. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll make a prairie dog pop in a satisfying way. But it should be a very good and economical range gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.17 HMR I did it. I bought myself a rifle. Not used. Not a milsurp. A totally new, supposedly super-accurate bolt-action rifle. I picked a Savage .17 HMR with a varmint barrel. You can see it at this link. I decided to go for stainless. Not sure why. I just felt like it. Finally, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-hunting-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}