.17 Hmr

[buffalohunter]

A few years ago all the gun magazine covers and articles were flooded with news on this cartridge. Now I never read much about it. Personally, I never saw exactly where it fitted in, or was not overlapped by the .22 rimfires. I bought a CZ-452 American, shot it once and haven't looked at it since. Was it a flash in the pan ?

 

[Will Fennell]

Hummer

Love mine, shoot it a lot. Great varmit rifle for my shorter range needs......scary accurate. Mine is a 452 American.....

 

[cmidkiff]

Here's mine... Love it. My daughters put as many rounds through this one as they do my .22 Buckmark. Fun to shoot, fairly inexpensive to feed, accurate, no recoil, way fun with reactive targets.

I may see if I can get a 10/22 magnum re barreled in .17hmr. It'd be a heck of a plinker!

 

[hksw]

A fad? IMO, no. There are plenty of folks shooting that round regularly including myself. I think it may be that the cartridge has quickly established itself and has no become one of the norms and no longer warrants scrutiny.

Now the .17 HM2 is another story. I hardly ever see that on the range an CZ has dropped it from it's line-up.

 

[627PCFan]

17's are disturbingly accurate. I didnt buy into the hype, then I shot one. I haven't touched a 22 since, except for use of subsonic rounds. You can have a laser, or you can lob rocks.

 

[oregonhunter]

I love my 17

 

[phoglund]

I bought mine spring of last year for cleaning up ground squirrels on my fields. I used it quite a lot last year. I didn't shoot at ground squirrels one this year though...because there were none left!

P.S. I actually hadn't planned on entirely exterminating them, but miscalculated a bit.

 

[shuter]

.17 HMR's

are extrememly accurate, for the most part, and are VERY effective on critters up to the biggest jackrabbit that ever ran through an alfalfa field.

They're convenient, in that you can buy a box of ammo and go shoot - no need to feel guilty about not handloading for it By the way, you can find a box of 50 rounds of the Hornady for around $9.00 - not really too bad for what you get.

This is a legit 150 yard cartridge, or about twice the legitimate range for hunting with a .22lr, in my opinion.

It also shoots flatter and is more devastating than the .22 Mag. Do yourself a favor and get a Volquartsen .17 HMR semi-auto. These are incredible rifles, and will shoot sub-inch groups at 100 yards just about as fast as you can pull the trigger.

That definitely falls into the "fun" category for me!

see ya

 

[mossberg702]

Never shot one i think that it would be awsome to shoot. Will you give me some prices and pics i would like to know more.

 

[cat_IT_guy]

No time for pics right now, but I love mine, although I dont shoot it quite as much as I used to, only because the collection has grown substantially since I bought this gun. It is great fun, my girlfriend put it down after shooting it for a .22 because it was "too easy" to hit pieces of broken clay with at 80 yards.

I have the marlin 917V, great gun, I replaced the trigger and it will shoot under 1moa pretty regularly, assuming i do my part. I have a BSA 4-16x50mm on it and basically if i can see it through that thing i can hit it out to 150yards or so.

 

[jerkface11]

I've got the CZ training rifle in it LOVE IT. Go to the range and look at the ground around the firing line. You'll see lots of .17hmr brass.

 

[plexreticle]

Fun to shoot not fun to buy ammo.

 

[Flash!]

I bought the Marlin a couple months ago after shooting a friends rifle.....I had to have one.....then a few other people I know bought one too....accurate and the loads are FAST!

 

[DZL HOG]

My neighbor had one. I went out with him a few times watched him shoot, and shot it some myself. I knew I wanted one then. He had a Savage with the bull barrel. It got stolen, then he ordered another just like it. The new one has the BSA Sweet17 scope, and it is all over the place. The first one had A Tasco 3x9x50mm on it, and was spot on accurate.
I bought a Rem 597, big mistake. Ive got a Tasco 3x9x40 and have gotten where Im pretty good with it. But it jambs terrible. Most of the time its a single shot rifle with an 8rd mag. Then other times it shoots fine.
Love the caliber, fast, accurate and strong, just dont like my rifle.
Matt

 

[Mal H]

It's certainly not a fad with me! My Marlin 917 is the rifle I go for first for close in varmint control (< 150 yds). Very accurate and fairly cheap to keep fed.

phoglund - Funny you should mention that about your squirrels. You may not have completely eradicated them. In past years, we had a bunch of them, usually 5 or 6 visible at any one time in the yard and woods all summer long. This year - zilch, and I didn't come anywhere close to picking them all off. I honestly don't think I've seen 5 total all summer long. Maybe they know something we don't and have left Dodge - let's blame it on global warming, everything else that seems strange is!

 

[rangerruck]

this is the beatin dead horsey, but you can allways go here;
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/
http://www.varmintal.com/17hmr.htm
http://www.chuckhawks.com/index2l_rimfire.htm


Basically, out to 80 yards, the 22 mag has more energy, past that the 17 is better in all ways
you can make honest to goodness 200 yd shots in a calm wind, it is faster than a 22 mag at the muzzle, with it at 100 yds, with a 100 yds zero, and scope sitting about 2 inches high/centerline, the 17hmr only rises .5 inch at 50 yards, and is only down about 3 inches at 150 yds, and down about 8 inches at 200 yds. So it is a smokin round. It moves less in the wind, and has more energy out to all effective ranges , after 80 yards, than a 22 mag. It is also very apparent, that except for the occasional fluke, it is far more accurate than a 22 mag.
now it is expensive, but so is the 22 mag now. Which is why I am totally geeked out over the 17 mach 2. it does for the 22lr, what the hmr does for the 22 mag. Plus it is 4 to 5 bucks a box, so it is plink-worthy.
Plus with the mach 2, you can also fire 17 Aguila or pmc round.

 

[skinewmexico]

I haven't shot a 22 since I got my 17 3 years ago. It's like shooting a laser to 150 yards. Funnest gun I've ever owned.

 

[Ol` Joe]

They are a bit pricey to shoot any more with ammo going crazy but I still find mine to be extreemly satisfying to shoot. 100 yd groups are 1/2 what I get from my 22s and every bit as much fun.

 

[jerkface11]

Ooh a full stocked CZ.

 

[Radagast]

I bought my CZ452 in .17hmr a few years ago, groups with the first two boxes of ammo where three to four inches at 100m. So into the back of the gunsafe it went and out came the CZ452 .22 magnum.
Early this year my brother in law got into shooting, so I gave him the .22 to use on our first couple of range visits & I played with the .17. After a couple of boxes more the groups tightened up to minute of angle, or sub minute of angle with a flyer. I'll buy myself a quality scope for christmas and see how I go. It's the rifle I shoot the most at the range these days.

 

[skinewmexico]

I know I had to run a few boxes thru my Savage before I got good groups. And if I clean it really well now, my groups will be terrible until I run 10-15 rounds thru it again, so I just shoot it until my groups open up.

 

[John917]

I love my Marlin 917V in .17HMR! It IMHO is a truly affordable ($220) tackdriver. I like the .22LRs, but this is a whole new ball game. Buying ammo is better than good centerfire rounds, which often cost $1 per round. 50 .17HMR's cost $9-12, and those are the good brands (Speer, CCI, Remington, Winchester) BTW, are the hollow point CCI's with the dynamite-picture on the box in .17HMR lead, or hard metal, like the FMJs?

 

[Dr.Rob]

.17 is no dragonslayer but if you want to zap prarire dogs and the landowner won't allow centerfire rifles... (that's how i got my first .22 magnum) the .17 has a bit better range, fun to shoot.

Thing is you have to buy a new cleaning rod. One made for (gasp) air guns!

 

[tuck2]

The 17 HMR is one fine prairie dog pup shooter. I use mine for shots out to 150 Yds. Very little muzzle blast and no recoil. I also use a 17 HM2 for shots out to 80 Yds. The pair of Cooper 57 M LVT prairie dog rifles looks good in my gun case. My 22 LR and 22 WMR stays at home since getting the 17 rim fire rifles.

 

[shuter]

"Thing is you have to buy a new cleaning rod."

A .17 cal boresnake pull-through is the ONLY way to fly with .17's. Volquartsen includes one with their rifles.

see ya