.17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
08-01-2005, 06:09 AM
#3
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Central Michigan
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
Ruger makes a better rimfire bolt than marlin or savage but it is more expensive. You can interchange the 22 mag and 17 HMR barrels though and it is a well built nice looking rifle with a 9 round rotary magazine. The savage and marlin are almost identical, I like the marlin a little better. We have a marlin 22 mag that shoots very well.
08-01-2005, 08:49 PM
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
Marlin is known for making one of teh most accurate guns along with savage, ruger itsnt up to par with the marlins and davages but they are a better made rifle. I owna marlin 917vs and after changing out teh trigger sprin with one form a pen and shimming the trigger its a real shooter.
08-02-2005, 05:50 AM
#5
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
My 77/22lr will shoot 1/2" groups at 50 yards and it will put 10 shots under a nickel at 25 yards. My M77 300 WSM and M77 .223 will both shoot 1/2" groups at 100 yards as well. I would not hesitate to buy a Ruger for accuracy reasons, I have seen way to many shoot sub MOA groups at 100 yards. The 77/22s and 77/17s have the same type of trigger as the full size 77s and a trigger job can be done just as easily as the M77 if you want a lighter trigger.
08-02-2005, 08:48 AM
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
I would buy the Ruger M-77 Laminated stock, target grey barrel.
This rifle looks like a standard size hunting rifle, not a varmit rifle.
I own a 22-mag & 25-06 in this model, both are shooters.
This rifle looks like a standard size hunting rifle, not a varmit rifle.
I own a 22-mag & 25-06 in this model, both are shooters.
08-02-2005, 08:09 PM
#7
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: MB.
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
I have the Savage 93R17 FVSS and I also can get 1/2” groups at 50 yards but put it to the task at 100 yards and the groups get allot bigger. It’s a nice little rifle and fun to shoot but I would rather have something else.
08-03-2005, 07:14 AM
#8
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: old pa mountain hunter
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RE: .17 hmr ( help pick)!!!!
you already have a .22 and .243. get something in the middle i would go with a .223. the .17 are fun to shoot but they just don't havemuch more than speed going for them. a friend of mine was thinking about a .17 until he pulled the trigger on my ultra varmint. thoughts of the .17 went out the window. 
