{"id":1611,"date":"2008-09-24T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2008-09-24T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:40:14","slug":"i-came-i-clung-i-conquered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"I Came, I Clung, I Conquered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>.17 HMR Rocks<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I had a nice time at the range. I took the Nylon 66 and the .17 HMR. Last time I tried to shoot the Nylon 66 with a scope, the results were pretty bad, so I thought I&#8217;d try again. Things went poorly.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%20nylon%2066%2050%20yds%2001%20web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/Pixes\/09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%20nylon%2066%2050%20yds%2001%20web.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"border='2' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It seems like the zero slides around as you shoot, which is consistent with what people told me when I bought the scope. They said the receiver was attached to plastic, or something, and that it would not hold still.<\/p>\n<p>I took the scope off and shot at 25 yards, just to see what the story was. I shot as well as I could see, which is about all I can ask.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%20Nylon%2066%2025%20yards%20web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/Pixes\/09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%20Nylon%2066%2025%20yards%20web.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" border='2'\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I got out the mighty .17 HMR and bipod, and I shot at pasters to see where the zero was. I was shooting at 100 yards. The zero had moved pretty badly since my last outing, so I zeroed the scope and started shooting at the bullseye. Here&#8217;s the first effort, which made me pretty happy. Things started out rough, but I could be shooting worse.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2001%20web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/Pixes\/09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2001%20web.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" border='2'\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The next one didn&#8217;t have crazy fliers in it.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2002%20web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/Pixes\/09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2002%20web.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" border='2'\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was starting to get a feel for the way I should pull the trigger. I had the funny sensation that I was pulling it in my head instead of at the end of my arm. And I got some improvement. There are lots of fliers, but there are also a bunch of holes in a satisfying clump. And even with the fliers, the entire group is smaller than an apple. This is 25 rounds.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2003%20web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/Pixes\/09%2024%2008%20trail%20glades%2017%20HMR%20100%20yds%2003%20web.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"border='2' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It looks like the rimfire scope for the .22 was a complete waste of money&#8230;UNLESS I get a Savage .22. Yes&#8230;that would totally justify it. I must have one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad the scope and the Nylon 66 don&#8217;t get along, because the gun itself seems to be nice and accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.17 HMR Rocks I had a nice time at the range. I took the Nylon 66 and the .17 HMR. Last time I tried to shoot the Nylon 66 with a scope, the results were pretty bad, so I thought I&#8217;d try again. Things went poorly. It seems like the zero slides around as you [&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-1611","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\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}