Needing some advice on which rimmy?

[riflehunter583 58]

for a purpose or personal pleasure ? we all buy and use for different reasons. have different guns for different jobs etc.

 

personally .... when i found out that .223 can be cheaper to run than hmr i was very interested (being a tight git).

 

when i learned that a well moderated .223 and hmr make similar noise disturbance i though some more.[/ color]

 

[ color=#222222]when i learnt that .223 bucks the wind better than hmr i started to realise

 

having seen that .223 is a great fox round i had to get one. that the us military and uk military use a similar round has to be worth something,

 

that one can load fast fragable 40 s or slower 75's (a max) with huge 0.5 bc,

 

that the .223 burns powder very economically with large choices of ammo out there

 

and good amounts of land passed

 

its got to be a great choice for many a shooter for vermin up to scotish roe.

 

if huage numbers of americans use it for hunting and target work and the military use smilar its got to be a great round to have in your box if like me you want to get a good bang for your buck?!

 

alas this does not answer the chaps question.

why not own a .22lr and a .17hmr if it must be a rimmy. is not the .22wmr less accuarte than the .17hmr and hmr flatter?

however like has been said the hornet is flat and cheap to run for rabbits @ 200 yard . a good choice for a windy spot over the hmr and a finer bullet than .22wmr whihc looks like an old prehistoric bullet design like the .22lr.

 

The HMR shoots flatter and is FRACTIONALLY more accurate than the WMR, but the WMR in 30g V-Max is very flat and accurate and carries approx 70ft lb more out of the barrel than the HMR, so that maybe 3-5mm difference in accuracy at 100 yards is more than made up by calibre size and energy!

 

As for a prehistoric looking round , what do you think the HMR is based on, and talk prehistoric, when did you last look at a .22 Hornet Cartridge, but what have looks got to do with anything?

 

 

alot actually.

the shape and surface finnish of a round is important to its accuracy. .22lr rounds do look like bullets used in wars many years ago i.e. old technology. well thats my observation anyway.

and you need accuracy to hit bunnies at 150 yards.

which leads me to the point that maybe the hmr or .22 hornet might be a good choice if roberto considers his .22lr is not up to the job of getting these rabbits at 100 - 150 yards.

 

personally i thnk a very good .22lr setup would cleanly kill rabbits at say 130 yards all day long if zeroed at 50 yards and holding over 4 mill dots on a clam day. but thats just my experience with .22lr other people's may be different.

 

Yeah I know what your saying mate but I'd rather shoot a round with a flatter trajectory, that I personally would have more confidence in using, rather than having to compensate for a greater looping trajectory from a .22lr.

 

i know what you mean mate. its a bit of a mess around to range find and hold over all the time.