Sniping Groundhogs w/ 17HMR (Scope Cam)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2023
- I used my CZ 457 American 17 hmr to hunt pest groundhogs on the farm!
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There's much satisfaction and challenge in groundhog hunting, and you are making some great shots! As a 51-yr-old guy who has slain many a woodchuck, I would suggest that if you know you have a confirmed kill, do not go check the animal until you are done for the day. Any human activity in the field with greatly hinder further groundhog movement for several hours. Collect all the carcasses when you're done.
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Ah, reminds me of my youth, starlings, pigeons, groundhogs. Good shooting. Thing to remember, .17HMR is a rifle especially at longer ranges, that you always prepare for a follow up shot. And I agree, wait until the end of the day to retrieve. I always like my .17 Remington. Easily past 500 yard shots. My furthest shot is 450
@@JessicaDennisonthat sounds beautiful
@@JessicaDennisontry to make it 600 yards I don't believe such a small round can reach such distances
It’s because animals like groundhogs and starlings are pests
If I may suggest something. Using the same material that you did for your backdrop, make a canopy to keep the sun off of your body and rifle. By the end of the day it can make a world of difference in eye strain and overall success. You are an excellent shot. Someone taught you well. Pass the knowledge on to your children some day.
Keep up the good work! My grandparents farm had many cows step in their holes and break legs.
"Buzzards got to eat the same as worms."
Clint Eastwood from "The Outlaw Josie Wales."
Fantastic shots in that wind! The 20 grain is my favorite as well.
Great video!!! People do not understand how much damage they do to crops and to the fields. Keep up the good work. PB
They de-railed a train in my area.
It's not that they don't understand, it's more like they refuse to and maybe just for the sake of arguing and feeling 10ft tall about it. That all changes when they start destroying their stuff though, and instead of doing something more humane they try to poison the creature or capture and beat it to death with a shovel or other blunt object, very few will actually cough up the cost to have professional pest control take care of it.
Aye, but .... They're fluffy so lasses aren't gonna like you shooting them.
and also they are edible so do not waste the meat
@@IrnMaiden304I agree about the property damage, but to me it would slightly be a shame to kill native American animals like pests. Like I think its pretty stupid when people shoot squirrels off their bird feeder and don’t eat them. That being said this video is badass.
Looks like Punxsutawney Phil will definitely be seeing shadows for a long long time lol 😆
Great shots buddy! and congrats on the new PB! Lot of people just don't understand how much damage these little fawkers cause
removal is 100% necessary unless you want destroyed lawn,and pipes everywhere!
Keep up the great work,glad I found this channel, got a new sub my friend! 💟
17 HMR is such a great round. Where i grew up we had prairie dogs which are basically just smaller groundhogs and as long as the wind was down i could drop them at 250 to 300 yards easily. Add in some wind though and anything over 150 yards was tough.
I love shooting groundhogs , prairiedogs and even raccoons ,i rarely use my 17hmr , i prefer my 22-250 and 22 magnum , i've also gotten a lot of them with 223 winchester too and i can reach out past 400 yards with the 223,,my record long shot on a ground hog is almost 500 ,, and 870 yards on a coyote
When i was a kid i remember the first time i saw a prairie dog hunt on tv i instantly wanted to go. Havent made it out there yet but one day ill leave the farm again.
you may have already seen but the UK uses .17hmr for rabbit and there are some badass videos with a lot of very long shots with them, almost unbelievable at times, amazing little round! great video, ty!
crazy how this dude waits for hours just to keep us entartained he deserves more love fr fr
I like how humble you are and showing your miss shots. You are the real deal bro, keep up the good work and God bless!!!
This little round is so effective and so pleasant to shoot !!!
What’s better 17 or 22?
@@jenrizar660 …the .17hmr is much more effective than a .22lr for hunting but the .22mag is also great for varmints!
@@jenrizar660 17 is a lot more expensive and it's louder but it's a lot deadlier and it doesn't ricochet, where 22 is notorious for bouncing off. It depends what you want. If you want to target shoot 22 is better, period. if you want to shoot animals past 50 yards the 17 is better, just be aware it drifts a lot in the wind even under 200 yards. Humanely killing a critter in the wind is pretty difficult. I sold my 17 because I live in a gusty windy place and it just got annoying to go out and even target shoot at 200. His 140 yard kill here is really impressive even in light wind.
I shot a groundhog once with a 22 and I won't do it again, it took him a while to die even though I got him in the heart. But I'll probably never own a 17 again, I'd get something with less wind drift that would be less frustrating.
@@jcarry5214 got it brother appreciate it
@@jenrizar660 No problem. Sorry it's wordy, I just waited more than 15 years to get a 17, really wanted it, then got disappointed. They're great within certain limits. Don't believe they need extreme cleaning, old wives' tale. Pretty normal for rifle.
The .17HMR is one of my all time favorite calibers
A beautiful sight! Nothing but a red mist on the prairie!
My all time favorite shooting!!
Try eating one they are pretty tasty.
Par boil with onion then season flower and fry them. Parboil with onion and fry them how you like chicken.
We used to eat about 75 a year really good if you are camping. Groundhog, fish and for side dish dandelion greens, plantain and poke maybe some berries.Don't forget a skillet and some butter or oil.
I've never heard of that 😮. What is "par boil" btw? I may try your meal tip.
That looks like the funnest time ever dude !!! 😀
one of the best things about the 17hmr is the recoil is so tiny that you get to see it impact with full clarity
U should try a .17WSM. I have both, an HMR and a Savage Bmag 17WSM, and the WSM shoots flat almost twice as far as the HMR. Fastest rimfire cartridge made. Just found your channel, great content sir
then step up to the 17 remington and do 4000 fps,
Love my WSM.
Love these types of videos
Great video! I’ve shot hundreds of ground squirrels using my 17 HMR! What a great caliber. For shots over two hundred yards I bring along my 17 Hornet, an excellent flat shooting round. I would enjoy seeing more groundhog videos. Nice job!
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Great shooting and that last shot was amazing!
Impressive how tough those woodchuck critters are against .22LR
Great shooting and videos keep them coming. I love the .17 hmr
Great job! That last shot was a huge accomplishment, especially with a light bullet in a rimfire cartridge. Keep up the great work and have fun! Thanks for posting the video for all of us to enjoy.
KEEP IT UP!!!!
I have them in my backyard tunneling under my firewood pile and storage shed, doing a lot of damage. They come out to eat clover growing back there. I get them from my bedroom window at 40 yds with 17gr .17HMR, all head shots, sends them straight to paradise. Sometimes they flop over and twitch legs and tail, sometimes they just put their head down with no movement at all. I usually get 3 per summer. I have to keep checking out the window whenever I'm in the house, you never know when one will show up.Then I have to crack the window open reeeeal slow and quiet. I have a Savage bolt action with a bipod and a decent scope, nothing fancy. I keep it at the ready near the window with a full magazine. I have woods right behind me but only one time I tossed one over the fence. It stunk the place up for several days. After that I started taking them for a ride to a roadside ditch along a field elsewhere. There are birds and other scavengers that will get them, and I doubt there is a farmer around here that minds if I take a few out and toss them in a ditch.
A couple years ago I busted one and just left him out there in the afternoon. A couple hours later I walked out the back door and a ground hog was standing in the exact spot where I wasted him. It spooked me for a second because I thought it came back to life! It saw me and ran off. Only then I realized it was a second one that came out to sniff the dead one. So I went back in the house to wait and keep checking. It took a couple more hours but the second one finally came back out and I busted him too. I had a chance for a 4th one that year but he saw me and booked. I took a pot shot at his ass as he was leaving but I'm pretty sure it missed. Pretty sure I got him the next year though.
I prefer .22mag to .17hmr. It’s got more mustard and not as critical in windy conditions.
We have bazillions of gophers where I’m from and it’s my fav hobby to whack them! Nice shooting!
I guess it's safe to say you're likin' that CZ 457!
I know I like mine...I have the same rifle in 22 WMR. Great rifles, those CZ 457's!
Oh yeah, good shooting! Enjoyed the video.
Great shooting young man new sub I love doing the same thing but now I do it with a fx m3 .25 cal. Air rifle got 10 acres in the middle of 200 lots of ground hogs squirrels rabbits Turkey doves keep on with your varmint hunting love it
I enjoy seeing you have so much fun doing this. It is a lot of inexpensive fun. The 17 HMR and 22LR are great rounds. Keep it up.
Nothing better than a CZ; best gun for the money you can have in your arsenal. Most accurate gun out of the box you can find at the price. I just finished acquiring the new 600Lux in .308, 30-06 and the venerable .300WinMag. I can't wait to get them to the range and see how they do. Great work on those ground chubbies; hate killing but they are so destructive; it's a must do.
You got him!!!
Yes your back!!! 😊
Lets go I've been waiting every day for a new video. Keep em coming.🔥🔥🔥
I used to do that when I was a kid. There are not that many ground hogs around anymore. Raccoons have taken over for them now. There are tons of them around. The savage 17 does good work on them.
Great vid I LOVE my 17
We need more videos like this
What ballistics Calculator app do you use for 22 LR
Just got a gamo swarm whisper, and the scope is just ridiculous, man.
Those are some solid shots , jeez.
Very good pick in rifle, and that’s a good quality scope. Best of luck and have an awesome time.
Excellent video!!! Very impressive work!!!!
What scope are you using, and magnification?
Nice shooting! And nice video altogether! 17 hmr full sends! Have you ever tried wiring the dead hogs to a tree or post and then varmint hunting over them? Guaranteed that smell will bring coyotes and other critters even after the carcasses are gone coyotes will continue to visit the site. Happy hunting!
Nice shootin Brother!!!!
I like the 17 HMR
Back when i was a kid in late 80s and 90s some of the old timers here in KY and TN would eat ground hogs 😂. I ate one a few times and if i remember right it wasnt bad at all. Pretty much like eating a big squirrel. If you let the meat sit a few days, boil it, and then fry it, the meat was real tender and quite good with a few biscuits and some gravy 😂. Im not gonna be eating one anytime soon but just saying it can be done and also be quite good lol.
What app are you using to adjust your shot?
Good eating right there
Love the channel my guy ! Also ground hog huntin is my favorite.
I have a 17 HMR and love that rifle. I don’t know where you’re at, but this Dallas resident would very much enjoy getting a chance to shoot some varmints.
Good video. I've shot quite a few of them with a 17. The furthest I've hit was 170. I had to do finishing shot on it. I won't use a 17 hmr past 150 now. They don't expand properly at long range. Not enough velocity. They just pin hole the critter. I use a 223 now to unzip them.
Between the wind drift and the power dropoff I sold mine, it was jsut frustrating, nowhere near as good as advertised when it came out. Took me like 17 years to get one and I only kept it for six months. Thought about getting a 204, probably not that much better.
Well done.
Congrats on your new personal best! I broke my old 303yd personal best 3 times in 2 weeks recently. 368yd, 437yd and 438yd. I love whacking groundhogs!
Solid video. I gotta get out there with the rifle and try and get some ground hogs for myself! Keep the videos coming, I love em all
Nice work, I abhor woodchucks. I usually just use a Marlin .22 magnum, but if I can find more conducive areas, it's .243 Winchester time
What scope cam is that?
What scope are you using in this video?
Nice shooting I hope I get some nice shoots like what you were getting .
How do you use a 17 for this? I always used something like a .250 or even the popular ar15 would work fine but still not great at those long range shots. Although shooting them in fields around here is definitely several hundred yards. Youre not hitting something inside 100yrds
yes love the 17 vids
Looks like you have a rough summer ahead of you. Have fun!
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What scopecam are you using? Greate video buddy!
Your my favorite TH-camr keep it up
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Hi, love the videos keep up the good work❤
what did the camera and scope cost you total?
i love your videos and the longer content
What scope were you using?
Grandfather had a horse ranch, gopher, woodchuck, and prairie dogs where hunted aggressively. As I child I didn’t care for it, but when I learned that a beautiful horse had to be put down because it snapped a leg in a hole…. Kill ‘em.
Nice!
What app did you use for that reticle ?
I was going to ask the ammo type but then i saw u taking multiple follow up shots as well and i realize its just the nature of the 17. Basically if u dont dome them u will have to shoot again or know its suffering. I use to use the 17 for any hog around the house like porch shots basically so the shot wasnt freaking the cows out. But i dont like them not checking out with the first shot so i use 556 now instead for all of them or my DB9mm. Its a fun gun to use for closer shots and dont usually need a follow up either.
I love 17 hmr i got a 430 yard squirrel kill with a savage a couple of years ago
Youve gotta try out a PCP airgun. They are awesome, ive made some crazy shots with my FX airgun,( 100yd+). they make these airguns in most calibers. ive got a .30 and i love it, very accuate, consistant, and dead quiet. Ammo is cheap for them, but the upfront cost of the rifle is the biggest expense overall.
I’ve got a .25 marauder also have a FX Wildcat bt on the way if it is ever back in stock.
Does it come with the GoPro
That's some good eating stuff there. Last time I found one on the tracks my buddy ate it and threw it up. I was looking for a hot meal so...
Great content as always
AWESOME
you should do a review on the Arken 6-24x50 rifle scope you use.
Groundhogs are also referred to as "whistle pigs". They actually whistle! We used to give a good quick whistle to get them to stand and it works 99% of the time.
Another trick was, if we missed and were not too far away, walk up to the hole. Quite often they will come to the surface, maybe even poke their head out a little. Would take them with the pistol at that point....
I’m calling bull crap on the pistol comment.
@@randallcook9983 Why? What is the problem? They would often come back to the surface, to the opening of the hole if they were missed. If the shot wasn't too far away I would often walk up and a good % of the time the head would pop out and I would take them with a pistol. If you ever lived and worked on a farm you had to off every one of them you could, they could tip a tractor (depending on which one we were driving) or just make a nuisance of themselves.
Sorry that you feel the way you do. You must have never hunted groundhogs.
@@randallcook9983 I'll ask again, why? What is your issue with the "pistol comment"?
@@ibwonderful1 - cause I don’t believe you’d never get close enough for pistol accuracy before you spooked them back deeper into the hole.
@@randallcook9983 Have you ever hunted groundhogs? If you miss you can walk right up to the hole and they will surface again about half the time! I am not making this up. When I was a teenage I spent many of my Summer afternoons/evenings hunting them on our 200 acre farm. If I wasn't carrying the pistol on the tractor and shot one with the .22 mag we kept on board I would use it when they came back up. Why is this such a problem for you? Just curious....
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3 inch group?!? I like this guy lol
What type of scope is that?
I bought a new ruger american 17 hmr . I topped it with a Hawke Vantage IR 4x12x40AO. The 17 hmr model i shot it out to 225 yds. I bought 3 boxes 17 gr v max. Next day came across hornady 20gr xtp ammo. Ended up buying 16 boxes ofthe hornady 20gr xtp ammo. I shot 5 rds of the v max. I like the 20gr xtp the best. We dont have ground hogs like that. But we do have armadillos. I killed several with it. And a few coyotes too. I have only put 50 rds thru mine. I carry my 22 mag the most. Fixing to put the Hawke Vantage 4x12x40AO IR 22 mag model on it.
Hey man, great video! Thank you for sharing the affiliated links. Would you mind to share the link of your recording equipment? Especially the adapter you have scope. Appreciated.
Nice shot
What app were you using to check your reticle? I could use something that useful!
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Try the 17 WSM rimfire it’s even faster!
That was the hollowed out tree that you spent the night in. Great vid
If you whistle they will stand up most of the time. Watch how you pick them up, I've been bit before it hurts. So does those dang rabies shots and having your thumb nail pulled off. I was 72 yrs old today and it's still the most fun you can have. Back in 1992 I set the record for Varmint Hunter Magazine, killed one at 1770 yds with a .300 win mag. Always take a pistol with you and be safe. Take care, flea in Virginia
What gun are you using?
great !
Thankyou ---can you also tell me what calibre --- is the W/17HMR ?----22 Long rifle ---or smaller ?
What is the exact bore /calibre of the 17HMR cartridge ?
That last shot was amazing! Well done brother 💯 You definitely got him 👍
Awesome video
Have you tried 17g VMAX, probably more effective for what you are doing