Does The 17 Mach II have Enough Steam To Group At 100 Yards?

Shot a 17M2 at 100 last summer. Handi-Rifle, scoped.

Was taking the bottle caps off the water filled pop bottles we were using for targets, and smacking the pieces around at 100.

My bet would be that if it isn't grouping, it's not an ammo problem.

The killer for me is the 5 to 1 ratio of rimfire ammo prices. I can buy 5 bricks of 22 for what I have to pay for a brick of 17M2. Nearly comparable with the better target ammo, which I won't shoot, either.:)

Cheers
Trev
 
Drewz said:
I was shooting at the range to 200 yards for a five shot group with my 17HMR with sub 2inch groups with no wind. Scope and bipod tholugh...
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HMR is a 22 magnum necked to 17. Mach II is 22 long rifle necked down to 17.

Unfortunately different animals.

Thanx for the replies. Gonna hafta try and get out in the next little while and try it.
 
even a 22lr usually groups well enough at 100 yards to bust up gophers. And my new 22 mag (pretty similar ballistics to the 17m2) groups as well at 100 yards as some of my centerfires.

Heck, last year a few of us took a few gophers at 170-200 (lasered) yards with a 22lr. (Not on the first shot, though)
 
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no doubt about it the 17 m 2 will ut shot a 22 to 12 meters googel 7 m2 and read the first to reports lots of goodinfo and all the data on 22 22mag 17hmr an the m2 great compareson DUTCH
 
Drewz said:
Well a semi versus a bolt is a difference right there too. You were looking for a bolt action right?? Semi's can get a bit messy without a little massaging....lol
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I put about a grand worth of stuff (including a lilja match barrel...) into my 10.22 when I still had it, and even then it couldn't compete with my Savage mk-2, accuracy or reliability-wise
 
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