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I have shot the 17 hmr tons with my grandpa squirrel hunting and everything else. he always sights his guns in at 25 yards as well so i am very familiar on how the gun shoots at your ranges. i dont know if i agree with the 25 yards zero or not but hey i got used to it so i am sure it will work, i just thought a 50 yard zero would be much better. it would be a smaller arc to deal with for shots that a 17 can handle without a second thought. ok back to the question. yes it will have that much rise at 100 yards if it is sighted in at 25 yards. the barrel is approx. 1.5 inchs lower than the scope so it is rising 1.5in. in 25 yards so it is still climbing at right round 100 yards. i have found that thats where it will top off and around 150 will be almost dead on. again thats with my grandpas gun and with his bullets but it should be pretty close. i will say that is without me even sighting the gun but based on my hit to miss ratio it cant be far off. shooting turtles off logs on the pond will tell you where your shooting, but remember kids dont try this at home. i would try to zero it at 50 yard and try that as well, it would be less of an arc and for shots from 25 to 150 yards it will only have a maximum difference of around 2 to 3 inches instead of 4in. over 150 yards is stretching the ol 17 a little bit anyways. hope this helps

i got to do some shooting today and came up with a few new thoughts on myt scope and gun . so here what happened lol. i get over to the nabors and get set up ( now my gun is hittion dead on at 25 yards ) target in place at 100 yards . fire three rounds and take the walk to see and mark where i hit . im at about 3 inchs high and about 3/4 inchs left . now im thinking , down 25 clicks and over 5 . buzzzzzzzzz wrong answer , now im hitting about 9 inches low ( 3 more rounds ) . so back up 20 clicks and im to high again by about 2 inchs but dead on left and right . Ha hahaha i pulled to get that hahahah . so thinking again and i go back down 8 clicks ( gonna go a lil at a time this go around ) . BAM im in the ornge and its a 2" X 2" [] . i reload and set up again , now i put a 2 x2 [] in the middle and a 1" O in the top and bottem of the target . in all four corners and half way up and down i placed one also . im thinking see what kinda group i can do with five shoots and what do you know all five iinside a 1 "O . so im on at 100 yards now to see what it will do at 25 yards and yup im way low , i was shooting at a gord on top of the target post . to see how low i was i set my ornge dot on the center of a old target thats there and fire on at it , im about 7 inches low . thinking after reading a lil more on my scope , and know now at a 100 yard each mill is 3.5 inches . so i drop down two and fire off at that gord again , BOOOOOOM gord go everywhere so i line up on one laying there and same thing it explodes . no back to the target to see just how close i am on at 25 useing the dots I line up and pull one off i hit just low of the bulls eye . now if im dead on at 100 y and almost dead on useing the 2nd mill dot down at 25 then the frist mill dot must be close at 50 right ?

the scope http://www.swift-sportoptics.com/products/riflescopes/SRP688M

the gun http://www.chuckhawks.com/marlin_917.htm

guess i could do a post about my dogs if yall wanted to see them. tex is the best dog I have ever owned . as for me yeah i hold up to the pit name , im very loyal , my word is always good ( i mean why not have a good word , man in a hole dont carre to much for a lie , back stabbing punk wanna be ) . i dont start no junk but i dont put up with much eather lol so yeah this dog will hunt if need be . realy tho the name come for me breeding , selling , and training pits and dog alike . all my friends started calling me pit bull and it kinda stuck , ive been dealing with pits since i was 13 . got my frist one for 4-H to show

this is tex doing PP work.


we also use him for hunting hogs and tracking other game . he also has his CGC and rehab certs so if i want to i can take him into old folk homes and let them pet and play with him . he is very smart .