.17 HMR is my favorite round. I used to own six of them until I had to sell a bunch of my guns. Now, I'm down to just an open site CZ and a Ruger.

I use the Ruger 77/17-VMBBZ. It was "tuned" by the previous owner, but hardly used (elderly gentleman who collected far more than he would shoot). Now that it's sighted in, I can take Grey Diggers out to 150 yards with confidence. Today, I took 4 of them at that 135-155 yard range and a few more at 50-100. I started passing up the close ones to practice my "long-range" shots.

I also have an airforce condor. It shoots .22 caliber pellets pretty fast. When the starlings start to show up in the spring, I have frequently drop half a dozen of them in one sitting.