Is the 917 for hitting groundhogs?
I've got my Dad's old Marlin 336 in .35, a nice rifle. I think well of the brand based just on that gun.
its fer anything smaller than a deer... rodents basically 'splode...
6.5x22x44 so's I can see the little varmints out tuh 200 yds... 17HMR is good tuh 250... unless'n there's a wind tuh speak of... the guy that's doin' the werk has shot prairie dogs at 3 hunnert with his...but he's a trained sniper... figger I can match that...