bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

What are these guns good/used for? You can't hunt squirrels with them.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

Same thing here. I bought one about a year ago or so and just sold it. I rather have a rifle chambered with something I can reload...

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

WHY?.......I would'nt use a .17 Rem on squirrels, but a .17 HMR on head shots, why not?

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

You can hunt squirrel with them. Just go for head shots or use a less explosive ammo. Like the TNT or 20 grn XTPs instead of the Vmax ammo.

They were really intended for small varmints like gofers, ground squirrels and small woodchucks though. You could also take fox and some take coyotes with them as well.

I target shoot and do pest control with mine. If you wanted to squirrel hunt the HM2 would have been a better choice.

Check out rimfirecentral, we talk about the 17 quite a bit over there.

Paul

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

oh, I thought it was illegal to shoot squirrels with the .17. Guess I just heard that
somewhere.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

Where do you live? It is a possibility in your state that it is not legal to shoot them with a 17HMR, never heard of it though. Then again I have not read every state and counties regs either. If it is legal to shoot them with a rimfire where you live the HMR should be legal unless specifically stated otherwise. There may be some law that says they must be shot with a .22 or larger caliber or something to that effect. This would be to keep people from shooting them with .177 pellet guns would be my guess. Most likely a law before the HMR's came about.

Paul

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

Man,you nevershota squirrel with a .22 Mag?

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Man,you nevershota squirrel with a .22 Mag?

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I have noticed that a 22 Mag does much less damage than a 17 HMR if you are using the TNTs out of the 17. I really wish I could get hold of some of those 20 grain bullets that are supposed to be more for game than varmints. I shot a squirrel in the head with a TNT and it peeled him past his shoulders.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

YEP! I was in NC in Oct. and my wife's cousin had just bought a scoped Savage and 500rds of TNT's, WOW!
It surely does some damage on impact.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

thats what the hmr was designed for is small game and varmint/pest control. i have shot probably hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with them and if you shoot it in the head it works fine. i also have shot 3 coyote and a fox with it. last fall i set up on some beavers with it and it killed them 1 shot. i also carry it coon hunting and shoot rimfire tournaments with it its a great caliber for all things just listed. id does a good job on woodchuck p.dog and ground squirrels too.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

well i am in tn. I guess the ppl at wal mart didn't know what they were talking about LOL. what do you guys have your .17s zeroed in at? If you say 100 yards, then how do you hunt squirrels with it as closer ranges?


2- how does one yote hunt? I've always wanted to do it but don't really know how. What do you need? Spotlight? Caller? Never done it before. I'd like to see what the .17 will do. Like I said, I bought it about a year or so ago and have not even shot a full box of 50 rnds through it. I have a scope on it but its just an old tasco from my old deer rifle. I had an NC Star with an illum rectile on it but I put tha ton my 7mm.

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

The 17HMR is a very flat shooting round out to 100 yards. Mine is sighted in for 110 yards . Up very close, like 10-20 yards it is around an inch low. And from 40 yards to 100 yards it only varies by a half an inch (high) and it is only 2 inches low at 150 yards. Mine varies less than an inch from 30 yards to 130 yards.

If you sighted in for 135 yards you would only be an inch high at 100 yards and one inch low again at 155 yards. And 5.6 inches low at 200.

If you wanted to split the difference for 200 yard shots sight in at 175 yards and you would be 2.5 inches high at 100 and 2.5 inches low at 200.

I haven't tried it yet, but with no wind and a good solid rest I bet you could pull off 2.5-3 inch groups at 200 yards pretty easily, maybe better. I have never shot mine farther than 130 yards. And the way mine is sighted in you don't even need to acount for yardage at that distance unless your target is very small.

This is with a 1.5 inch sight height.

Paul

RE: bought a .17hmr a year ago....now what
 

Head shots, but don't usethe V-Max. Try the 20gr XTP's.
A .22lr has a 40gr bullet and I have shot 100's of squirrels
withthem and it's twice as heavy as the .17cal....