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Have a Leupold 3-9 Rimfire AO on my .17 HMR.
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Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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while i do not have a 17HMR anymore, while i did have one i topped it with a 3200 Elite 4-12x40 AO with fine duplex and was very pleased. lots of other good options mentioned above and this one is just that, another good option.
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nanook (of the north) had a good suggestion. The Pride-Fowler....
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Mine wears a Leupold VariX III 3.5-10X40 AO. Near perfect in my opinion. Second that they shoot so flat you just hold on and let it rip. I tried the multi plex reticles and found them about useless for the .17 and the ranges it is good for. By the time you get out far enough to use the aiming dot the wind really raises havoc with that little bullet. Shots in the 100-125 yd range are hold on and smack - out at 150 you can still connect regularly by holding on top of the critter and into the wind - much over 175-200 and it had better be a calm day and some luck starts being involved.
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Weaver 9 on my 17 Ackley Bee
Last edited by WV_Airedale; 05/26/16.
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A 17 rimfire is just a tiny pest gun.
Get a better scope for one of your longer range rifles and use the old scope on the 17. Just another example of Don opining about things he has little working knowledge of. I go just the opposite - My .17 is my most used rifle, so it wears the best scope.
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I can only tell you what I have on my Anschutz 1717: A Schmidt and Bender 2.5-10x56 classic scope.
One does not need more than 10x for the range of this caliber. This rifle combo is perfection for small varmints such as ground squirrels.
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A 17 rimfire is just a tiny pest gun.
Get a better scope for one of your longer range rifles and use the old scope on the 17. Just another example of Don opining about things he has little working knowledge of. I go just the opposite - My .17 is my most used rifle, so it wears the best scope. This^^^^^^^^^
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A 17 rimfire is just a tiny pest gun.
Get a better scope for one of your longer range rifles and use the old scope on the 17. Yeah.Don is a contra-indicator. Whatever he says.....do the opposite and you'll be fine.
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One of Savage99's problems is he apparently doesn't actually shoot many animals with any of his hunting rifles, so assumes nobody else does either. He might have shot a "pest" once upon a time with one of his rarely-used rifles, but it's hard to tell, since he never tells us the story, like he does about the one deer he shot with a .222 Remington.
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Everyone knows you can't shoot deer with a .222......
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My name is Don, too. I shot a 'pest' once upon a time with one of my rarely-used rifles. It was almost orgasmic......
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I just bought my first .17 HMR, a Ruger American Rifle. I had an older Leupold Mark AR 3x-9x Mildot scope lying around and it looked nice in Talley low rings on the .17. The Mark AR comes from the factory with a short target turret and BDC for the 5.56mm.
I called Leupold's Custom shop and they were able to make a custom BDC dial for the .17 HMR, even though my older Mark AR has 1/2 minute adjustments instead of 1/4 minute or mil adjustments like the more recent ones do.
It took 9 days from the time I called Leupold until the BDC arrived. The BDC goes from 100 to 340 yards. I am very happy with this scope on my .17.
So if you like the idea of a .17 with a BDC, you can convert any Leupold scope with a tall or short target turret to one for the .17 for about 60 bucks.
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Pics...or it didn't happen.
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