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Having built more than a few of the new 17 Hornets on the Ruger Hornet platform there is much more to the conversion to get it to run right and be accurate than just rebarreling one. I wish that was all there was to it. Forget the Blued walnut version. It's like Ruger is having these built in a cave somewhere. The metal is dovetail shapped so bedding is a nightmare and the barrel channels are all off to the port side near 1/8 of an inch which requires reinletting the whole stock to get the barrel anywhere near centered.

The Stainless laminated version is a lot better platform to start with. It's still plagued with nasty tool marks and irregularities. The bolt fit needs fixed to get zero headspace, the magazine needs machined internally to get them to work right. They work best bedded and free floated. The extractor needs a little attention to get them reliable and the rings will about kink a scope. After that and a few other things are striaghtened out, we and are regularly getting well under sub moa.

Once done, they are a nifty little rifle.