What Do you Think 17HMR!!

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Ok First off this will never be tried, in my family or from any of my Firearms, but I had a discussion with a friend, about the 17 HMR after playing around with them blowing cans and all kinds of water bottles up, and apples off trees in our orchard!

Do you thing a well placed shot to the head would Kill a deer!! at say 25-50yards. ( just a generic question)

At 25 yards it would penatrate a 2 " piece or plank but would not go through a 4x4?

Like I said, not looking to get bashed here this is not what its about,just want to see what you would think!

I said Yes it would! stone dead if hit right.
 
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"...never be tried..." Good. Hunting deer with a rimfire is illegal in Ontario. However, any cartridge will kill anything with a well placed headshot.
 
ITs illegal in b.c to however im wondering if the same goes for coyotes, it does not say in the regs it says its legal for wolverine bobcat and lynx but nothing about yotes.
 
dinsdale said:
The 20 gr might do OK for Yotes but is marginal.
Go to 17hmr.net forums and see what they have to say.
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.22 mag. would be better for yotes. It hits harder. Rimfires for Deer are usually illegal and definately unethical.
 
People have been shooting deer with .22 long rifle for years. Mostly at night and with a light... a 17hmr has alot more energy than a .22lr so i would have to say yes it would. Just a guess as I have never tried it.

Hell Taurus and I think Ruger make a 17hmr revolver for personal defense.
 
I have shot near 50 to 75 beaver on my trap line with a .17 HMR. Beavers have tough muscle bound heads and on average the .17 performed rather poorly. Every now and then a spectacular head shot would stop a beaver without a kick. (swimming) On average the .17 would require a second shot to stop the beaver from simming for the bottom. The .22 magnum was like night and day to the .17. It hit (the .22 mag) "harder" penetrated better and stopped most beavers with one shot. After having this first hand experience with the .17 hmr I would not shoot a deer with it if I was expecting relaible bullet performance. Having said that a perfectly placed .17 round would work but I don't control the factors of hunting enough to make a perfectly placed round every time.
cheers Darryl
 
MadTrapper143, Great info!!
And I to have shot many beaver in and out of or ponds on my uncles Trapline and our property up north.
And found the same Rem, Hdy vmax bullets performed very poor yes, on them but when i slipped a TNT bullet in (not quite as accurate but good) it really wacked them hard and one shot kills were seen.
So I agree, you need the right bullet
I have not tried the 20 gr Hdys
 
madtrapper143 said:
I should have stated that I was shooting the original Hornady V Max loads.

cheers Darryl
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I have found those v-max really come apart! on anything and just dont penatrate much, I guess they do what they are supposed to.
shot a few cotton tail with them and it made a mess. and than shot a few with the TNTs and they never did as much damage to the rabbits, thats when I got the idea to try it on the beavers, and they worked like night and day!
 
I look at the $$$.

$10 a box of 50 .17HMR is too much to plink or to even hunt with. Those rifles are too much fun to shoot to not shoot a hundred rounds everytime you take them out of the safe. In my mind all rimfire are plinking rounds and not hunting rounds (big game of course)(maybe the 22mag for nusisance control)
$1.99 for 50 22lr is great fun and will take out any beaver. Even if it takes 5 shots per beaver you won't be counting your rounds.

Just my $0.02
 
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