.17 wsm vs .17 HMR

Was just having that discussion with a friend. At that, there are great centre fire cartridges that can be hand loaded for great accuracy rather than the rimfire.

I'd go .17 Hornet instead. Winchester does not have a reputation fpr the most accurate tolerances on loading ammunition.
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I was seriously considering the 17Hornet, but ended up going with a 20Vartarg instead.
 
connexion123 said:
Was just having that discussion with a friend. At that, there are great centre fire cartridges that can be hand loaded for great accuracy rather than the rimfire.

I'd go .17 Hornet instead. Winchester does not have a reputation fpr the most accurate tolerances on loading ammunition.
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Considering the two cartridges are currently being chambered in the same savage gun I would go with the ballisticaly superior and reloadeable 17 hornet as well.
 
ciphery said:
I have to think that the ammo should stay relatively cheap as the building construction trade uses the 17wsm parrent case and the 17hmr and 17 rem use the projectiles.

The guns chambered in the cartridge will determine the life span.
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This. The other factor I'd consider is that there has been some utterly awful Winchester ammo floating about lately. My last box of 30-30 had some fairly varied COAL and others have been posting far worse.
 
hoytcanon said:
I thought I saw a 17 WSM on the Sturm Ruger website... Someone go check it out...
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Ruger isn't listing it in their available calibers, just the 17 HMR and the 17 hornet.

Regardless if one can load cheaper than buying this ammo it is still nice to be able to just walk in and buy 1/2 doz boxes and go shooting and not worry about brass, and get a cartridge that does 3000 fps and is a real 200 yd gopher gun. Where's the down side to an afternoon of no stress gopher shooting with no brass to keep track of and zapping the little rats out to 200 mtrs. Also handy around the yard for squirrels and crows and the odd skunk and coon.
 
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Does anyone have an opinion as to what barrel life might be expected from either to the .17 calibre rifles?
There is a formula but can it be applied to Rimfire jacketed bullets?
 
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