Thread: new caliber

Originally Posted by southernman

Hi beetroot,
How much better than the HMR, well heaps in performance, and if you reload about the same cost to load for, I recon I am reloading for less than the cost of HMR, unless I buy a brick of HMR on special, bearing in mind I already had the powder for small bore shotgun and buy projectials in Canada for about 1/2 the cost here.
Yep its a savage walking varmint, its a good shooter, but due to other problems I can not recommend one, stiff bolt, poor ejection, jamming and binding when loading, and to top it of the scope mounts are off center, so far I had to buy windage adjustable mounts, to get it on target. About seven Lbs for weight.
I had a CZ American on order and decided to try the savage as the local firearms store had several, last savage I ever buy.
Ammo in Canada runs about $20-25 Cad depending on store.
If you get the chance to have a go with the .17 hornet you will want one, its buy far the most fun small cal firearm I own, for the record I have (.17hrm, .22 ,.22mag, .204, .222,.223 and .22-250)
I should have the CZ .17 hornet, back here buy Feb/March,

Yeah I thought those Savages were crap lol.
The CZ would be a beautiful gun. I really don't need a new gun, but I love varmint shooting so there could be one in the works.
So you travel to and from Canada a fair bit?