What a awesome little gun. Anyone else enjoy their .17 as much as I do?

 

I love mine, when you can drop hogs at 200 yards with one you know up have a badass gun!

 

Love my Ruger X-17, used it many times for much larger game than its intended for and taken prairie dogs out past 300yds tons of times. Its definitely a hot little round thats a blast to shoot.

 

I never caught on to it all that great. Ammo cost and availability around here sucks.
I can shoot 223 for cheaper.

And my 22 is much much quieter haha

 

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(that said, I've always loved the way that rifle looks)

 

i carry my .17hmr everywhere i go.....its a marlin with the carbon fiber stock, bull barrel, stainless and i put a nikon 3-9-40 on it. its a fun lil gun that im not scared to pull the trigger on anythings eyeball at 200yards!! lol.

 

Mine is a marlin also. I like to blow up turtles at 125+ yards. I have been told it will turn a hogs head into a sack of broken glass thru the ear hole. Ammo is not bad at all here, $11.97 for winchester 17 grain poly tip per 50 rds. I put 600 rds in the safe since Christmas, buying a little at a time.

 

Its definitely not a practical round, if you reload 223 is cheaper and better ballistically, 22lr is a ton cheaper and quieter but not as good ballistics wise. Its just a fun cartridge to me. Setting up on a prairie dog town and blasting away at 300yds with a rimfire is just cool. You have to make all the adjustments of a fast centerfire cartridge at 1000yds for a 300yd shot. I plan to put a mildot scope on mine to practice for longer range shooting.

 

I still havnt been converted from my 22 mag. We have a lot of rimfire/shotgun/archery areas only here. Theres tons of coyotes to shoot and the 22 mag dose a pretty good job. But i did just pick up a Coyote choke for the 870!

 

In has a .17 for prolly 10 years now it seems like. Used to have tons of fun with it shooting varmints and turtles in the swamps. Don't really shoot it a lot anymore though