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Impressed with my 17WSM.
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<blockquote data-quote="B1s BmagX2" data-source="post: 2850913" data-attributes="member: 116037"><p>First time I've seen one. Good looking rifle. I just hope that Winchester starts cranking out ammo soon or I think a lot of people, like me, will opt for moving on to a reloadable high-performance, high-efficiency cartridge. Why I settled on the .17 Fireball over the .17 Hornet or .20 Vartarg? The Fireball was standardized by Remington. It was originally called the .17 Mach IV. I read somewhere it was created in part by Ackley. The brass is available, but pricey. The factory-loaded ammo from Nosler is also available, and pricey. But at least it's available. The .20 Vartarg is still a wildcat and has no SAMMI specs yet. It requires quite a bit of tuning, case neck concentricity is very critical on the round when forming brass from the .221. I love reloading but I just want to shoot the **** thing, if you know what I mean. As for the .17 Hornet, I was going to go that route but it's not as versatile as .222-.223-based cartridges. In other words, if I want or have to swap barrels to another cartridge the Hornet is confined to the .22 Hornet or the K-Hornet. With the Fireball I can go .222, .223, .221, 6.5 Grendel, .300 Blackout, tc. Anything with the same bolt face. I'm still frustrated with the .17 WSM, especially after talking to the Federal rep. If Winchester doesn't do it I don't think anybody will. Unless someone buys the tooling and the rights to manufacture the stuff. If that should happen I think, and this is my own personal feeling, it's gonna be twice the money per box$$! Heck, it still might be with Winchester since they were losing money on it. Or so they said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="B1s BmagX2, post: 2850913, member: 116037"] First time I've seen one. Good looking rifle. I just hope that Winchester starts cranking out ammo soon or I think a lot of people, like me, will opt for moving on to a reloadable high-performance, high-efficiency cartridge. Why I settled on the .17 Fireball over the .17 Hornet or .20 Vartarg? The Fireball was standardized by Remington. It was originally called the .17 Mach IV. I read somewhere it was created in part by Ackley. The brass is available, but pricey. The factory-loaded ammo from Nosler is also available, and pricey. But at least it's available. The .20 Vartarg is still a wildcat and has no SAMMI specs yet. It requires quite a bit of tuning, case neck concentricity is very critical on the round when forming brass from the .221. I love reloading but I just want to shoot the **** thing, if you know what I mean. As for the .17 Hornet, I was going to go that route but it's not as versatile as .222-.223-based cartridges. In other words, if I want or have to swap barrels to another cartridge the Hornet is confined to the .22 Hornet or the K-Hornet. With the Fireball I can go .222, .223, .221, 6.5 Grendel, .300 Blackout, tc. Anything with the same bolt face. I'm still frustrated with the .17 WSM, especially after talking to the Federal rep. If Winchester doesn't do it I don't think anybody will. Unless someone buys the tooling and the rights to manufacture the stuff. If that should happen I think, and this is my own personal feeling, it's gonna be twice the money per box$$! Heck, it still might be with Winchester since they were losing money on it. Or so they said. [/QUOTE]
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