My newest rifle

[underdog]

I recently (last fall) purchased a .17 caliber Savage Rifle, I put a Sweet 17 scope on it. This gun rocks, it's fast as hell and very accurate. We sited it in with a 5mph side wind, so quite calm outside. At 100 yards, all three holes touched each other, at 150 you could cover the 3 holes with a dime, at 200 yards you could cover 3 shots with a quarter, at 250 the wind was starting to come into affect and the 3 rounds were within a 2" circle.
I was pretty impreseed, especially since I haven't shot a rifle in about 8 years.

[O.C White]

Yep anything inside of 100 yards suffers zero effect of a cross wind. Wait until you get the feel back, you will be banging away at 200 with zero problems with the wind.

[MCM]

I've been seriously considering getting a rifle in the 17 HMR caliber for my next purchase. Pretty amazing how inherently accurate it is, despite how light the bullet is in this cal.

[MrMike990]

I've been seriously considering getting a rifle in the 17 HMR caliber for my next purchase. Pretty amazing how inherently accurate it is, despite how light the bullet is in this cal.

Mike I shoot three .17 centerfires; a 17 Mach4, 17 Javelina and a 17 Super Jet using bullets from 15-30 grains and boy are they are hoot to shoot using more than 17-19 grains of powder. Recoil is nil which allows one to see the bullet impact the target. The Super Jet pushes a 15 grain bullet about 4500 fps and man does it blow up a crow!

I thought about getting a 17 HMR but then tried a 4-5 grains N310 in my 17mach4 and it works like a champ for when I want to shoot a reduced .17 load.

[MrMike990]

Yep anything inside of 100 yards suffers zero effect of a cross wind. Wait until you get the feel back, you will be banging away at 200 with zero problems with the wind.

Carl, you would be surprised at the effect that the wind has only ay 100 yards. That's why we use wind flags. I even put up wind flags when I do load development.


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[O.C White]

I can only speak for what I have taught and we teach our Mariens well more like I used to teach no windage adjustments at the 200 meter line. If you are missing the center at 200, you have other mechanical problems wrong.

I can't speak for every round out there, but wind has zero effect on a 5.56 out of a M-16 at 200 meters.