Picked up a Marlin 917.....

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So the back-story is that I got a bunch of free ammo from a friend of mine earlier this year and there was a box Winchester 17 HMR in the mix, and instead of finding someone with a rifle in the same caliber, I went out looking for a rifle to go with the ammo.......

So I went on a tour of the local gun shops and found a homeless Marlin 917 with a heavy barrel and black composite stock.

Marlin includes a set of scope bases in addition to the grooved receiver, you can go with rimfire rings or Weaver bases. So I went with Weaver bases, rings and a nice big 3-12X50 scope.

The jury is still out as far as how the rifle shoots, haven't been able to get to the range yet........
 
You'd be surprised on how accurate those 17's are. A bad one is still pretty good. I was shooting ear buds of a mountain dew bottle at 65 yards with my pencil barrel savage. They're a lotta fun for a hot rod rimfire.
 
17 HMR is the most accurate round that I've ever shot.... it's a lazer beam!
 
JohnFreeman said:
17 HMR is the most accurate round that I've ever shot.... it's a lazer beam!
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And practically no drop between 25 and 100. Off a bipod, I could use beer pong... I mean ping pong balls as a target at 100 yards, and if I did the job right, could hit low/left/right on the target and kick it where I wanted it to go. IMO, one of the most underrated cartridges.
 
I got the heavy barreled one with the wood stock. Put a bi-pod and a Zeiss Conquest 3x9x40 on it. At 100yds you can hit whatever you want to hit, it is like a laser beam.
 
I picked up one years ago on a whim when 17HMR was the rimfire caliber de jour. Mine shot pretty well but I sent it off to a gunsmith who offered a Marlin 917 accuracy package. Groups dramatically shrank after I got it back but my file does tend to shoot best with Hornady 17gr ammo.

I haven't shot it in a while, but the last batch of ammo I got seems to suffer from a large number of case splits.

In case you're interested...
http://www.aquilafirearms.com/CustomRiflePackages/Marlin_917.htm
 
WeepingAngel said:
And practically no drop between 25 and 100. Off a bipod, I could use beer pong... I mean ping pong balls as a target at 100 yards, and if I did the job right, could hit low/left/right on the target and kick it where I wanted it to go. IMO, one of the most underrated cartridges.
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That's my experience as well. IIRC it starts to drop off around 130 yrds, but up to that point it's a light beam.
 
It is a laser beam, two weekends ago I got her out to do some work on paper and once I got her bore sighted it was on.

I had nice little clusters of holes until I got excited, lol, then the groups opened up, and I mean from my first post bore sight group were just one ragged three shot hole.....

After I got pretty well on at the fifty yard line I moved out to the hundred to get my true zero and the rifle didn't disappoint, anything from point blank out to at least two hundred yards is dead with this rifle......
 
Had a marlin 917 for years, with a simmons 6-18x40 on top of it. Shot like a laser! Used to buy cheap lolipops and stick them in the berm at 100 yards and pop them. They explode great when you hit them.

Sold mine 2 years ago because I didn't shoot it enough, and needed to make room in the safe. They're hard to beat for an inexpensive precision rifle.
 
RedneckFur said:
Had a marlin 917 for years, with a simmons 6-18x40 on top of it. Shot like a laser! Used to buy cheap lolipops and stick them in the berm at 100 yards and pop them. They explode great when you hit them.

Sold mine 2 years ago because I didn't shoot it enough, and needed to make room in the safe. They're hard to beat for an inexpensive precision rifle.
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Hardest part so far has been finding a cleaning jag for patches and range time lol
 
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