Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles .17 Remington

I like the 20 and 25 V-max for fox.

Prefer the HP Bergers or Hornady's but the V-Max does well.

The mag contour (LVSF) is perfection. I wouldn't deviate from that.

I'd sell the LVSF stock and get something more better. Like a Sako Hunter style.

Whoooo, doggy. That would be a great setup.

Every .17 Rem BDL I've been around shot lights out. Including the J-Locks.

But I just couldn't beat on something as beautiful as the BDL. It pained me.

I agree with the 22".

The .17 shines due to its speed and nonexistent recoil.

I wouldn't want to short change it.

17 Remington vs 17-223. What say you, Sir deflave?

How's this? LVSF in a B&C Alaskan....

Well, it's not as svelt as this one............



but it'll do.

I like all the 17s from air gun on up. I might be tempted to get a Broughton or Lothar Walther barrel as both are touted as outlasting other barrels. Nothing wrong with Shilen, Lilja, Green Mountain, Douglas or Shaw. I like a 24" barrel as the 17 is made for speed. If I was doing a shorty I would go 17 Hornet or other medium small 17. 17x223 only if you wanted cheaper brass but the dies would off set this some and I like the longer neck on the Rem. it may aide barrel life.

Here is some good info on the 17s: https://www.6mmbr.com/17wildcats.html The 17 is one cartridge I go exactly with what the load is listed with as minor changes have have a big affect in the small bore. The 17s are so cool it almost begs to get two, one a bench gun and the other a walking rifle. Nothing heavier than the #3-5 range barrel for me. Wish I had stashed a couple SAKO Vixen actions away for another 17 cal. rifle, especially when they came in a LH version.

Approved. I did a similar thing dropping an LVSF barreled action into a McMillan short action Hunter's Edge. Unfortunately, it didn't shoot very well. That particular barreled action didn't shoot very well in any stock I tried it in which is one of the reasons I had the barrel removed and replaced with a PacNor .204. I wore the first one of those out, shot the throat out of it, and it's on it's second. I still have the .17 LVSF factory barrel somewhere but I don't plan to reinstall it, I'll go aftermarket. One thing I like about the factory LVSF barrels over aftermarket is the corners of the flutes are rounded slightly ... just a more finished look 'n' feel.

I had 2 other LVSFs. One was a .22-250. I shot the throat out of that one as well. Took a couple years but I got 'er done. It got a Wyatt's long mag box and a Lilja .25 caliber barrel ... .257 Roberts. The other was a .221 Fireball. I didn't wear it out, just got bored with it after a few years and swapped it for the .17 Remington. I also made a couple of "faux -LVSF" rifles over the years by dropping short action CDL-SFs into the LVSF stock. 2 were in .270 WSM and 1 in 7mm-08. Kind of a neat package but for me the WSM cartridges don't feed very well from a short 700 with a staggered magazine and I dunno WTF was up with that 7mm-08.

Anyway, I like the looks of that B/A in the B&C stock. Yep yep yep.

Yeah...but you have to take into account that I'm the original Kimber hater....so........I'll have to let you keep having fun with it, whilst I slum the chubby gun!

I say fugk a wildcat.

Figuratively.

That is lookin' goood.

Although, I'm a little too snobby to fully endorse a B&C.

Here's my little critter killer nestled into a Compact. I love it so.

Deflave,

What do you use as glass on that one?

And I thought for sure that this sleek southern beauty would turn your head.

In that pic it's wearing a 3-10X Weaver Grand Slam.

It's also worn a straight 6X42.

Today it wears a straight 10X Bushnell. I found that to be a great happy medium for everything. If it was just a calling rifle I'd have left the 6X42 Leupold.

That is a great rifle you built.

Maybe next time move the beer fetcher from the background?

I mean, class it up a little. This IS the internet.

But flave, it's an antique.......you know, like ingwe. I thought for sure the sleek southern beauty along with the antique beer fetcher would sway him.

Interesting to hear you say that...when I was doing more straight coyote calling, my fave was a fixed 6X too...


Now Im sold on the .17 Rem too


Great minds....

Mine wore a T10 for years. Great scope and I still have it, but the damn adjustments get adjusted in the back seat of the truck.
So it’s wearing a 6x42 I bought from a good friend and Fire member now. Much better pickup gun scope.

You sure?