Posted on 02/14/2015 2:41:57 PM PST by marktwain
17 HMR,little 20 grain bullet at about 2300fps or so.At close range it would inflict a huge wound.
Caliber just refers to the diameter of the projectile. You can get air rifles in .50 caliber and above, and below.
Yep not much on the net about this trial.
After the trial, the Smith family quickly exited the courtroom and did not want
to comment. But the Howard County District Attorney, Hardy Wilkerson, made a brief
statement on behalf of the verdict.
“We were grateful to have the opportunity to try the case, we felt it was fully tried and both sides had their say so. Obviously, there’s so
me disappointment with the verdict, but if 12 folks in Howard County feel that
this was self-defense, we’re not going to quivel with their verdict,” Wilkerson said.
Not only is this my home town I was also called for jury duty on this one. The DA is a good friend of mine so I was booted in the first round. It was a 17 HMR and it was ruled self defense.
What does the caliber of the rifle matter, other than the fact that most folks have never heard of it. There are actually several different .17 caliber rounds.
Which one is the Assault Rifle round?
The fact that it was on the dead guy's property begs a lot of questions.
From what I’m hearing it was drugs, alcohol and anger, maybe they will have more in tomorrows paper.
Thanks!
And used .172 diameter bullets.
That is interesting. I and probably most other people would have guessed .177.
I wish. Been toying with the idea of putting them downrange with an air rifle. Think I might have to paper patch them to get a seal.
Many years ago, I decided to load up some plinking loads for my Marlin 30-30.
I loaded 5 grains of Unique behind a Speer 100 grain plinker.
I fired it at a piece of thick (4”) plywood leaning up aginst an old barn. I wasn’t sure it would exit the bore. It went through the plywood, an inch of pine board and 1/4 inch of wall board then disappeared into the wilderness.
Speed kills. I just checked...a .17HMR uses a .179 cal. bullet. I wonder if they were trying to avoid folks like me running them through a pellet rifle. Seems like it’d be a wicked little critter-getter.
I think I had rather be shot with a .38 special 158 gr. round nose than one of those little buzz bombs,
Not that either one would be nice.
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