Just to add two cents to a retarded post.

With the price of guns and ammo going through the roof. About the only good gun - new - that you could get would be a Marlin 22 Magnum bolt action rifle.

I have two of them and I am very pleased with their performance.

If you ask why I have 2 of them, the reason is because one is clip fed and is a pain in the butt to carry on a sling in Turkey season. The second I bought because it is stainless steel and has a tube feed.

Tube feed is good for when you want to hunt all day.

Clip fed can be loaded faster - when you move from one area to another - and happen along a flock of turkeys along the way.

17 HRM is a good gun also, but you have more money into ammo and the gun itself. Not as much knock down power.