I bought my savage 93 about a month ago and my dad liked mine so much he went and bought one the next day. lol imo the 17hmr is one of the best calibers ever made.

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I shot a buzzard out of the air one day with it. And i aint bullsh**tin either.

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Let's hope you are.

17 if only for the animals listed i really rather have the 22 mag though

22 mag over the hummer anyday with 40 gr hollow points

I rather have a .17gr Vmax than a .40gr hollow point. I can put that Vmax anywhere I want to out to 200yds..

I had the Marlin 983SS in .22WMR, and it was a sweet shooter. Gave it to my best friend, and he loves the thing. I gained possession of a 917SS heavy barrel in .17 when my son moved to Alaska - couldn't take the thing through Canada, and was already shipping a bunch of other guns. Slapped a 3~9x40 Simmons Master Series on it ($24 from Sportsmansguide), and it's a tack driver... unless a squirrel farts across the bullet's path. The little bullets don't like wind. At all. .22WMR wasn't quite as sensitive.

All told, I'd probably prefer the .22WMR for anything much bigger than a coon.

17 is my favorite gun to shoot and trust me i have plenty to choose from farthest kill [censored] ive made was 300 yards on a turtle savage and their accutrigger all the way also try a limbsaver barrel de resinator shrunk my groups by a quarter inch at 100 yards

22 mag inside 100 yrds 17hmr from 100 yrds out to 200 yrds

I have both. Last week I finally tried it out on some jackrabbits. My longest shot was at 125 yards. The rabbitt was sitting, facing away from me. The shot went in his lower back, up the front(gutted him) and out the lower jaw. It took the lower jaw out as it exited. This jack went about 50 yards and was still going(making an awful sound), and I shot it 2 more times. One thing about the 17, it left really tiny entrance holes, with almost no blood ect. The exits were a little bigger. The other kicker was I shot most of the jacks 2-3 times to finish them off, even the dismembered jack was shot 3 times. BTW I use the Hornady V Max

Love the .17 but that .22mag always gets the job done

I have a Cooper 17HMR and an Anschutz 17HMR and they are awesome guns and an awesome round. They are the rimfire equivalent to a centerfire 204...a laser!!