Yup...  I went to the gunshop in town to pick up some ammo for a
afternoon of range fun and ended buying another firearm.  To be
somewhat different, I picked up a Marlin 917VS .17 HMR rifle.
With a veddy nice scope that I really like so far.  I loved shooting this
rifle.  Once I get used to using a scope I should get a lot better hitting
the target.  Granted, I got rounds on the paper, just not a lot of them
on the targets that I was aiming at.  And the great thing is that for 50 bucks
I can  buy 200 rounds for the .17cal...  the same amount of cash gets me
about 12 to 20 rounds for the .50 cal handgun depending on the brand
I buy.

I tried out some 300 grain rounds for the .50 cal handgun.  ( it is the
firearm that is in my main pic)  It is a very good one.  Even me, as
bad as my aim is, was able to get at least one or two rounds on
paper at the target I was using at the 100 yard mark.  I did do better
with the 15 yard mark.  The fun part was watching the pound or so of
dirt fly up from the mid range berm.  Which I'm happy to say that while I
did not always hit the target, I at least hit the berm.

The ammo I used for the beast was Hornady 500 S&W 300gr. Evolution.
No kidding...  ammo brand called Evolution.

anyway...

Next to Corbon, this was great ammo...  unlike the 400gr. rounds from
Winchester, it was alot easer to control the handgun and the powder was
vastly cleaner to shoot.  The 400gr really gunked up the gun...
Hornady makes a 400gr and a 500gr round for the 500 S&W...  It looked
very nice sitting on the shelves and I did not want to mess up the shelf with
the act of buying the ammo...