my new savage 93r17 .17 hmr

[trigga]

I've always wanted a .17 and was considering buying one last year but found none that i like. i had wanted an all black, heavy barrel with no sights. last friday i went around town looking for another .22lr handgun but the specific one i wanted, no one had. i went to gander and was checking out their .22 collection when i came across a savage .22wmr all black with heavy barrel, no sights and equipped with a scope. if only it were a .17 i thought. soon enough a worker came and asked me if i needed help. i told him what i had wanted then he showed me around the corner. it was exactly what i had wanted. he brought out a box and showed me what it came with, sure enough it did come with a decent bushnell scope and for the price i couldn't pass on it. just happens they had a $20 off $100 purchase too that day. i figured buy it now cause they won't be around when the hunting season comes like last year.

i haven't even shot it yet but hopefully sometime this week or the next. i've always been a semi auto guy, but for squirrel hunting i prefer a much tighter grouping out of a bolt action, especially a heavy barrel. i like it so far, the look and feel and the fact that the 5 round magazine doesn't stick out like the 7 rounds ones. every thing looks good except for plastic trigger guard.

 

[skunyun]

sometimes everything falls into place, nice rifle

 

[dtvburns]

I like it, so much I just bought one too. Heavy barrel, stainless laminated gray stock. don't;t worry about the trigger guard being plastic on your gun, at least it matches the stock.

 

[minutemen1776]

I have one just like yours. It's an excellent shooter with Hornady 17-grainers. Which Bushnell scope came with yours? Mine came without a scope, but I bought a Bushnell Legend 5-15x40 mil-dot for it. It's a good combo.

 

[trigga]

it's the model 93r17 fvxp, the scope just came in a bag with instructions and no specs. looking it up I believe it is a 4x32.

 

[trigga]

i just put some dummy rounds to test out the action and functions of the rifle and i had a jam. the round would not feed hitting the sidewall of the barrel face. studying it i notice there was no feed ramp and that the magazine had a slight angle to tilt the rounds in. i figured if by accident you load the rounds flat on the magazine and it doesn't get the tilt form then load it into the gun with the bolt open, it will not feed. bummer. i figured you had to load the magazine with the bolt closed and just don't work the action slow at least for the first round. tapping the magazine helps.

 

[dtvburns]

There is also a little play in the magazine, it can be locked in back but not all the way in in front. I have three savages, all with different mags and it is the week point of the rifles.

Just came back from the range sighting mine in, shot 50 rounds to get it sighted in. My first two groups of three where all touching at 50 yards. I had one group of 5 all touching at 50. When I went to 100 yards, after sighting it in at 50, all three groups I shot there where sub MOA on a day with gusty 12 mph winds (Hornaday 17s).
I like this rifle! You have to get out and shoot yours.

 

[FMJMIKE]

Nice rifle !!! Congrats ................

 

[TexasPatriot.308]

got one with a wood stock, cheap Simmons 6.5 x 20 x 50 (that Midway USA seems to put onsale on a reglar basis), I kill big hogs with it all the time, put it right behind the ear, with a 20 gr. hunter point and the big hogs drop in their traks, also dropped them with a behind the shoulder shot, that little round does hellacious internal damage. yeah, the .22mag will do the same, but I think the .17 does more internal damage. also cheap to shoot, I got thousands of hogs on my cattle pastures and way lot cheaper to shoot them with that than a centerfire round, whole lot cheaper..

 

[jpwilly]

I got thousands of hogs on my cattle pastures and way lot cheaper to shoot them with that than a centerfire round, whole lot cheaper..

So is it possible to come over to TX and shoot some of those piggy's?

 

[rangerruck]

make sure you try some 20 grainers with this; the savages can sometimes like these better , for accuracy. It doesn't appear to have an accutrigger, but if you go over to rimfirecentral, and look at the savage threads, it shows you there how to do a super easy trigger job on these; I've done them, and it works great.

 

[gkdir]

TRIGGA!!
I have that same rifle in a wood stock,, picked up at Wally World when they first came out. The feed problem used to drive me nuts (half a dozen replacement mags) then I got irritated enough one day to strip it out of the stock,, did some "shim" work on the magazine housing--bingo--haven't had a problem since. Shim the housing in such a way as to maintain a tight"upward tilt. Use mine on varmints and "tree rats"--if the wind is low,,I own the first 150yds. Has on old Bushnell Trophy 4x15x40 AO on it for glass. Get the 20gr. Hunter ammo--lot more stable.

 

[loadedround]

I own the same rifle also with a wooden stock at a Friends of the NRA banquet and I love this little rifle. With very little wind my rifle will shoot 1/2'' groups repeatedly all day. The trigger need some work and the ammo's expensive but I consider mine a keeper.

 

[husker]

I have 93-R 17 with a ATN 330 warrior night vision scope on top of it. Its my Night Time dog killer.
I NOW LIVE IN BIG 10 COUNTRY