Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Chatting and General Stuff
General Discussion
any input on the 17 remington
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="65WSM" data-source="post: 2353424" data-attributes="member: 9551"><p>I wore out a .17 Remington barrel (Lilja) on ground squirrels. The gunsmith said it had no rifling for the first two inches. Chronograph readings are not reliable or repeatable with the tiny bullets but I found excellent accuracy with IMR-8208 and 25 gr Nosler Varmagedon and Bergers. Both are hollow point flat base bullets. The tipped bullets are less accurate, because it is such a tiny tip and hard to attach at the same overall length and concentricity. Nosler brass is only what I used. Excellent, many loadings after annealing. It still has my longest squirrel hit, 338 yards. The .17 HMR is not lethal enough. Plenty of them crawl into their holes and die. I shoot a factory barreled .17 Fireball which I nitrocuarburized. For great accuracy, clean your barrel much more often than other caliblers. My .17 Rem barrel was nitrocarburized and I only shoot coated HBN bullets (helps with the fowling). Many happy memories of ground squirrel trips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="65WSM, post: 2353424, member: 9551"] I wore out a .17 Remington barrel (Lilja) on ground squirrels. The gunsmith said it had no rifling for the first two inches. Chronograph readings are not reliable or repeatable with the tiny bullets but I found excellent accuracy with IMR-8208 and 25 gr Nosler Varmagedon and Bergers. Both are hollow point flat base bullets. The tipped bullets are less accurate, because it is such a tiny tip and hard to attach at the same overall length and concentricity. Nosler brass is only what I used. Excellent, many loadings after annealing. It still has my longest squirrel hit, 338 yards. The .17 HMR is not lethal enough. Plenty of them crawl into their holes and die. I shoot a factory barreled .17 Fireball which I nitrocuarburized. For great accuracy, clean your barrel much more often than other caliblers. My .17 Rem barrel was nitrocarburized and I only shoot coated HBN bullets (helps with the fowling). Many happy memories of ground squirrel trips. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Chatting and General Stuff
General Discussion
any input on the 17 remington
Top