Fella's;
A comment in another thread raised this question in my mind. Rather than digress on that thread, I thought I'd start one dedicated to the question.
Let's face it, the .17 HM2, although not a bad idea, has been totally eclipsed by the .17HMR. I don't have one, so no dog in this fight, but I don't see a long future for the round. To my mind, the thing was tapering off & we'd probably have seen an end to it in ten years. But, with the current rimfire ammo crisis, I haven't seen a box of it on the shelves since what was there before the insanity started ran out. And it took a fairly long time to run out also, which gives an indication to its popularity. I don't see an ammo maker making a production run of the stuff untill their higher priority ammo requests are filled and things get back to whatever's going to pass for normal. It looks like that's going to take a while, perhaps a long while. Which would mean that if you don't have stock on hand in .17HM2 now, you're not going to get any in the immediate future.
Perhaps it'll do a 5mm magnum, & make a comeback 30 years later, but I'm not gonna hold my breath until it does. I'm also not going to hang a black wreath on it today. But next year?
900F
A comment in another thread raised this question in my mind. Rather than digress on that thread, I thought I'd start one dedicated to the question.
Let's face it, the .17 HM2, although not a bad idea, has been totally eclipsed by the .17HMR. I don't have one, so no dog in this fight, but I don't see a long future for the round. To my mind, the thing was tapering off & we'd probably have seen an end to it in ten years. But, with the current rimfire ammo crisis, I haven't seen a box of it on the shelves since what was there before the insanity started ran out. And it took a fairly long time to run out also, which gives an indication to its popularity. I don't see an ammo maker making a production run of the stuff untill their higher priority ammo requests are filled and things get back to whatever's going to pass for normal. It looks like that's going to take a while, perhaps a long while. Which would mean that if you don't have stock on hand in .17HM2 now, you're not going to get any in the immediate future.
Perhaps it'll do a 5mm magnum, & make a comeback 30 years later, but I'm not gonna hold my breath until it does. I'm also not going to hang a black wreath on it today. But next year?
900F