.17 caliber
 

anyone heard about these? an ok friend of mine was telling me about how he baught one and he loves it for small game. He says its a .22 shell with a .17 bullet, he says it has over 2000 fps. Is he lying is this gun real, does anyone have one? just curious, Thanks

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My buddy just bought one a few weeks ago and he loves it. He has taken some squirrels with it so far. It is a very nice gun, good for anything from small game to turkeys and coyotes. It shoots flat and accurate and can be compared to a .22 mag.

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its pretty much a necked down 22 mag shell verry accurate if it is not windy out.

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I have one.5 shots at 100yrd can cover with a qaurter.I use it for coyote,fox,and bobcat.

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i own a .17 caliber remingotn and i love it. the shells i shoot are 4,063 fps. i also own a 10/22 which is also ideal for this type of game if your a good shot.


So no your friend isnt lying he just understated the fps on the bullets

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foofish
The .17 rimfire is underpowered for game as large as coyotes.
It may be good out to 50 yards for so on fox bobcats coyotes but not much over that. Pretty comparable to the .22 magnum rimfire.

The .17 centerfire is an excellent coyote round out to 300 yards or so.

Big difference in the two cartridges.

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sorry to say it but that is all i use for coyotes, i have even taken a wolf with the .17 hmr, but it sucks on windy days. it is all about shot placement not about hitting power. if your good enough shot you could even kill a deer or bear with it.

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Suthern buck
How do you get a .17hmr shell at 4000fps????????? you must reload cause factory loads i've seen are 2550fps.........

The .17hmr can take a yote out to 100 yards but after that i wouldn't take one. And i definately wouldn't shoot a deer or bear with one.....

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Suthern Buck is talking about the .17 Remington, not the .17 HMR.

The .17 Rem is a centerfire bottleneck rifle cartridge similar to, but not exactly, a necked down version of the .223 Rem (some of the dimensions other than the neck are different), so it's not at all unreasonable for it to smoke that little 25gr. bullet out there at 4,000+ fps.

The .17HMR, as you know, is a necked down .22WMR. They are the same caliber, but totally different cartridges alltogether.

Mike

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I can understand using the .17 HMR on animals up to coyotes at reasonable ranges and if you are particularly careful about the shot placement. But to suggest their use on deer and bear???? Well, you can take a bear with a pocket knife....but I wouldn't call it intelligent. And I know of the stories of bear being kill with a .22LR...but that doesn't mean it was a responsible thing to do. (If you are in a truly SURVIVAL situation...that is different.) But anyone that pulls those "stunts" under the guise of sport hunting. Are not very sportsman like!

It's bad enough that hunters get lumped together with poachers and other criminals....without going out "with a point to prove" and attempting stunts at the risks of the animal's suffering. We can't have it both ways! Either we act ethically.....or we don't!

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didnt mean for u to get all upset about what i said, i didnt say i did it. up here natives can shoot what ever they want too, with whatever they want too. i just know a couple of them. i have seen it done. maybe our bears are weak up here, i dont know.

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Try out this website for more info on the .17 HMR

http://www.cctrap.com/~varmint/17hmr.htm



By the way, Hornady claims a velocity of this .17 caliber/17 grain bullet to be at 2550 fps.

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I drew first blood with my 17HMR this weedend, a squirrel at 60 yds out of a tree. 1 shot-clean kill with minimal damage. A+ in my book as I have it sighted in at 100yds and can hit 50 cent piece sized targets at 200! I hear you all on the wind drift issue, it be a bugger in the wind.

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I shot my first anumal with my .17 last night...... It was a coon....... If i woulda hit it solid the first shot it woulda been dead right then and there but i broke his front leg, he was on the run....... second shot put him down real quick...

40-50 yard shot on the run. A+

also i can't even find the bullet hole for the second shot so its very fur friendly.

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I've had mine for two months and love it on the range,but have not had chance to take it hunting yet. 2550fps :)

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the 17 rimfire is goot out to 200 yards on a coyote, i use it all the time, i have droped 60 coyotes in the past 4 months with it, i havnt shot a center fire yet but plan on buying one some day. they are fun little guns once you learn how to shoot them well, if you go out and shoot a couple hundred every couple of days you get to know the gun awesome and when you go to shoot you know whats goin on out past ur barrel. u have to be good at judging windage and range past 200 yard. i have seen a rimfire hit a coyote at 300 yards, that the person shouldnt have tried a shot that far. it is all about shot placement