New .17HMR

[Singleshotsam]

Well I've been trying to figure out what I want to keep w/ me for a truck gun.  I finally decided on a Savage 93r17f. 

http://www.savagearms.com/93r17f.htm

I love the balance of this thing.  I just picked it up on my lunch break.  Gonna take it home and clean it up. Mount a scope on it, and post pics later

Seems like a dandy little .17

[Biohazard Monk]

Just picked up one these myself, I threw a 6-24x42 scope on it. I ended up with the GLV model (I'm a leftie)

I am dying to get it out to the range...currently it's raining hard and about 25-35mph winds

[KAYR1]

I bought one a few years ago, and cannot tell you how many groundhogs and crows it has piled up, but its a bunch. I love the caliber for medium range varminting without the recoil and noise. I think you will love it!

[BIGDAVE54]

I bought an oider one off a guy last week that was a dog. I don't have much invested in it and I had never shot a .17 HMR before. The young guy I bought it from had put it in a case and stuck it behind his truck seat for about 3 years.It was a package model with a 4x32 mm scope made by SAVAGE_STEVENS. I am not kiddin it had dried peanut butter and rust on one place on the barrel. The case was so full of dust I could whack my hand against it one time and it was filthy. I got up the morning after I bought it and started cleaning and noticed a small crack in the stock near one bolt hole. He had mentioned pushing his truck seat back and wedging it on something and found the rifle. He thought his brother had borrowed it and had not brought it back. You have to know this guy to appreciate him. He is honest as the day is long so I know he did not try to stick me with a broken stock. He is sorta slow sometimes. He had decided to save some money and take full coverage insurance off his truck and just run public liability. His bank called and told him they were coming for the truck if he did not immediately put full cover. ins. back on it. That is how I came home with"ANOTHER GUN !!!!!" as my wife put it. I super glued the crack,cleaned and oil the old boy up and went to an old sand mine pit in the country with one of my shootin pals. We thought it would not be much louder than a .22....WOW!!! Talk about needing ear plugs. One scope ring was cracked on the scope and I had a brand new set that fit the bases on the .17 from a CENTER POINT scope I had bought last month for my .22 LR model 64 I bought last month new.(That was why my wife was hostile about the .17 I had just bought). Two 5 shot groups and I was putting thumbnail size groupa on paper at roughly 70-80 yards. The little rifle sounds like an AR-15 almost when it goes off withvirtually no recoil. This evening my wife was looking at laminate stocks for itand talking about since I had got a .410 for my bithday and a 20 gauge  for anniv.(both H&Rs) and a .22 last month....she thought she would adopt the .17  and fix it up for her... I'm really not sure how I feel about that...It's more of a chest pain but no numbing in my arm...I guess it's more like a broken heart or something.