You can shoot 17 hmr cheaper than that
That's true, but the Hummer suffers from the same problem as the .22 Mag: too hot for edible small game, and a little light for yotes. Plus, when the .22CFs are all empty, I can fill them up again real cheaply and the busy work keeps me out of titty bars. It's pretty easy to turn either the Hornet or the .223 into a squirrel and rabbit rifle at the loading bench.
I wish I'd had a Hummer back when I was shooting starlings by the barrel-full. I bet it woulda really made them go POP!