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Impressed with my 17WSM.
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<blockquote data-quote="Murtfree" data-source="post: 2830612" data-attributes="member: 111090"><p>Way back, when the .17WSM first came out, I was researching for a quality .17WSM rifle. There didn't seem to be much out there and at the time the B-Mag was IT and seemed to have lots of problems, including fail to fire. I settled on buying 2 versions of the Franklin Armory Upper and build my own. I bought one of the shorter version I believe was a 16 inch sporter contour with threaded muzzle and one with the 20 inch bull barrel. I ended up finishing up the shorter version and use it extensively as a varmint rifle and it serves me well and I can grab it and go and not be concerned about picking up brass and reloading. It does great on fox and smaller out to 150 yards. The ammo which I believe is made from nail gun brass has a very heavy rim and the fail to fire always seemed to be a problem with the round. I used a Hypertouch 3 gun trigger initially but had a nearly 50% failure to fire rate. I swapped out the included hammer spring with a Wolf Heavy Hammer Spring and that solved the problem, it fires 100% of the time every since. The heavier spring only had a minor effect on trigger pull and break. I never finished up the heavy barrel upper because I love this little AR version so much I didn't feel the need; but one of these days I will get around to it because I want to see how accurate this one will be. The short version will average around 1.5 MOA at 100 yards which is more than good enough for what I'm using it for. Chronographed velocity runs around 2950FPS. At the time I built the rifle I bought every version of .17WSM ammo I could find for testing and the Hornady 20grain seemed to win hands down. 17 grain Hornady and the Fed American Eagle didn't group very well. So, true to my hoarding nature I bought 8 cases of the Hornady 20gr and hopefully I will be well stocked for as long as I can still shoot. I would still love a quality bolt action .17WSM if I knew one existed for more precision work. But for now my Marlin Heavy Barrel stainless in .17HMR works for that and shoots SubMOA although is much more limited in range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murtfree, post: 2830612, member: 111090"] Way back, when the .17WSM first came out, I was researching for a quality .17WSM rifle. There didn’t seem to be much out there and at the time the B-Mag was IT and seemed to have lots of problems, including fail to fire. I settled on buying 2 versions of the Franklin Armory Upper and build my own. I bought one of the shorter version I believe was a 16 inch sporter contour with threaded muzzle and one with the 20 inch bull barrel. I ended up finishing up the shorter version and use it extensively as a varmint rifle and it serves me well and I can grab it and go and not be concerned about picking up brass and reloading. It does great on fox and smaller out to 150 yards. The ammo which I believe is made from nail gun brass has a very heavy rim and the fail to fire always seemed to be a problem with the round. I used a Hypertouch 3 gun trigger initially but had a nearly 50% failure to fire rate. I swapped out the included hammer spring with a Wolf Heavy Hammer Spring and that solved the problem, it fires 100% of the time every since. The heavier spring only had a minor effect on trigger pull and break. I never finished up the heavy barrel upper because I love this little AR version so much I didn’t feel the need; but one of these days I will get around to it because I want to see how accurate this one will be. The short version will average around 1.5 MOA at 100 yards which is more than good enough for what I’m using it for. Chronographed velocity runs around 2950FPS. At the time I built the rifle I bought every version of .17WSM ammo I could find for testing and the Hornady 20grain seemed to win hands down. 17 grain Hornady and the Fed American Eagle didn’t group very well. So, true to my hoarding nature I bought 8 cases of the Hornady 20gr and hopefully I will be well stocked for as long as I can still shoot. I would still love a quality bolt action .17WSM if I knew one existed for more precision work. But for now my Marlin Heavy Barrel stainless in .17HMR works for that and shoots SubMOA although is much more limited in range. [/QUOTE]
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