Thread: 17 HMR Barrel Length vs Velocity

Originally Posted by Bagheera

What are you thinking of doing with the scope ? A mate told me 3-12x was enough so thats what i got.

I currently have a Bushnell Engage 4-16 with turrets, moa reticle etc. Bought it to have the capability to make longer shots, but once you go much past about 250 the little bullets are blown so much by the wind and they have so little energy that it's very challenging to spot impacts (at least I find that to be the case). I have also found it to be quite heavy and a bit too much mucking around when shooting rabbits which is 95% of what the rifle is used for. I have lost more rabbits to messing with scope caps, parallax setting, dials etc than I have gained by being able to shoot further with the extra features. Better to zero at ~125 set and forget and point and shoot to 150 max point blanc, imo....

I also think that the large semi-tactical-style scope looks a bit incongruous on the classic walnut/blued look rifle... I have an old simple weaver 3-9 that came off another rifle and thinking of putting that on instead (need rings). I think 3or4-12 is probably the sweet spot though.