Thread: Quality of 17 HMR ammo

Originally Posted by Bagheera

What do people recommend ?
Is there a "go to" recognised best or do you have to try in your own gun ?
What do you look for ?
Does accuracy differ or is it terminal performance ?

I haven't used the 17HMR much and only CCI V-Max and it seems pretty good for me.
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I hope this was at 100 yards

I've only used Hornady recently and I'd recommend checking point of impact between batches. I've been told that the most recent batch is significantly faster than the older batch. Seems to be the case as I switched between batches the other night and was sending rounds over the top of hares at longer range when earlier in the night I couldn't miss. Yet to verify this on paper. Other than the batch difference I'm very happy with terminal performance.

When I had my old hmr, I found the Remington ammo really good and it had the same point of impact as the Hornady stuff.

I think it's definitely a case of try one and see how it goes, that's the nature of rimfires as it seems.

Originally Posted by Rated M for Magnum

I hope this was at 100 yards

I've only used Hornady recently and I'd recommend checking point of impact between batches. I've been told that the most recent batch is significantly faster than the older batch. Seems to be the case as I switched between batches the other night and was sending rounds over the top of hares at longer range when earlier in the night I couldn't miss. Yet to verify this on paper. Other than the batch difference I'm very happy with terminal performance.

When I had my old hmr, I found the Remington ammo really good and it had the same point of impact as the Hornady stuff.

I think it's definitely a case of try one and see how it goes, that's the nature of rimfires as it seems.

Load of rubbish, both batches in the same speed range, however my zero had shifted up 1 moa. I'm not sure why it did this, maybe the barrel running in?maybe my zero was off to start with...

All sorted now though, off bunny slaying again this weekend with a bit of luck.