Big Stick - a couple of comments. I use a .17 Remington on fox. It works just fine, thank you.
It is easy to talk about how your gun performs, your best loads, etc. If you really want to tell how your rifle and loads are going to work I would suggest you read Accuracy and Precision for Long Range Shooting by Bryan Litz.
You would learn a lot about how barrel length and other items can affect accuracy, etc.
Instead of talking about a statistically worthless number of tests, results, do the math.
