My favorite rifle is probably my ruger m77 .17 mach 2.... shoots AMAZING... I also have a savage mark2 mach2, that shoots just as good... only its not a ruger
. I still use my .22s for coon hunting, the .17 are just too heavy to lug through the woods in the dark chasing dogs. .22 solid point packs a heck of a punch too, knocks em right out of the tree, where as my mach2 is so fast and small, you can kill them instantly and they just lay there. It;s way louder too. I use my .17 for squirrel hunting because of the accuracy, headshots only and don't ruin any meat. Le'ts face it though, if someone is switching to a .17 for coon hunting, because of better accuracy, they just can't shoot. The average person can shoot a coon in the head in the top of a tree, with an ironsighted henry lever action .22