Thread: .17 WSM Rimfire

This will be interesting...
The Firearm Blog » Winchester Introduces 3,000 fps Rimfire Cartridge

Seems like fun.

Kinda neat if it's priced competitively

Cool! Now what will ammo cost :rolleyes::sly:

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The rimfire is nice not having to think about spent brass, no dies etc but tyring to fit something between the HMR and hornadys .17 hornet looks like a bit a sqeeze.

I would rather have the 223 with 800 yrd varmint capability.

Nothing to see here. A caliber that has nothing special about it, will cost even more than the already expensive HMR, isn't reloadable, has less grunt than the 17 hornet.

Next thing you know they'll be selling a 21 caliber to fit in between the 223 and 204. It's just a marketing thing.

Cost will be it of course.
If ammo was the same price as 17hmr and you didn't already have one which would you get rimfire ?

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Nothing 17. Now if they did this in a .22 I'd be more interested even at a slower speed than 3000fps so long as the ammo costs were competitive (read cheaper than .223)....

That case with the 30gr 22cal v max ? Hmmm

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Cost will be it of course.
If ammo was the same price as 17hmr and you didn't already have one which would you get rimfire ?

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Right now? Neither... because the 17 hornet is very nearly at our doorstep. Rifles are already on their way over apparently.

But IF I didn't already have an HMR and IF the hornet wasn't on its way over I'd give it some thought for sure (depending on who chambers it and whether it actually works out. No one wants to be left with a rimfire rifle in a caliber no one sells).

Do you guys think the .17WSM would be better if it was center fire so you could reload it?

we need to remember that in a lot of countrys, a rim fire is treated diferently to a centerfire, in australia for example a rim fire is 'a' class where centerfire is 'b', they have melted into practly the same thing now but rimfires were ok for junior shooters but you had to be 18 to use a centerfire, for example.
ammo cost and avaiable actions will be the trick, when horneydaze 223 training ammo was costing 70c and 17hmr 60c each, plenty of people just went to the .223. they will want to make sure the ammo is the same as 17hmr and it will go ok otherwise, the 223 will take this out of the equasion.
greg

" Winchester manufactures .27 caliber rimfire casings already for use in powered fasteners (what we rednecks call “nail guns”). "
time for a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
haha now we talking time to see if we can get some of these and go from there may be????

Originally Posted by skeet72

" Winchester manufactures .27 caliber rimfire casings already for use in powered fasteners (what we rednecks call “nail guns”). "
time for a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
haha now we talking time to see if we can get some of these and go from there may be????

270 blackout lol