Ballistically, there’s no contest between the two.Īs I said earlier, every small-game hunter should have a Savage A17. 17 HM2 crushes it in every category but price per box. It’s lightweight, accurate, incredibly reliable and fires a flat-shooting round that’s much quieter than the. This adjustable trigger provides aftermarket performance from a factory gun.įor a $300 plinker or small-game getter, Savage’s A17 in. The A17 features Savage’s incredible AccuTrigger. While the little cartridge was running on fumes, the A17 proved capable of placing rounds on target at distances exceeding 400 yards. However, with the wind at our back or head-on, we did connect on a few prairie dogs at extreme distance.
Past that distance, the wind would push the tiny bullets around.
Once we figured out wind and elevation holds, prairie dogs were zapped with every squeeze of the rifle’s AccuTrigger out to about 150 yards. In addition to running, the A17’s produced surprising accuracy when the wind cooperated, which is a rare thing on the open plains of Wyoming. The 10-round magazines position the cartridges for flawless feeding. For a semiauto rimfire, reliability like this is unheard of. In fact, I don’t believe a single shooter experienced a malfunction. No matter how fast I fired, the rifles never sputtered. I tried to get the A17 to malfunction for two days, loading and then emptying rotary magazine after rotary magazine of Hornady’s 17-grain V-MAX. 17 HM2 was one of the most fun firearms I’ve shot, and its reliability was astonishing.ĭuring the event, I realized “quite well” was an understatement. However, I soon found out Savage’s little autoloader can shoot. Many companies have attempted to harness bottleneck rimfires into semiauto platforms.
17 caliber, making it a no-recoil, low-noise cartridge that’s perfect for small critters.Īt first, I didn’t have high hopes for the A17. 17 HM2 is a pint-sized screamer that launches 17-grain bullets at 2,100 feet per second (fps) - almost twice the speed of sound - hence the “Mach 2” nomenclature. During the shoot, we used Savage’s flagship bolt-action rifles as well as their new autoloading. 17 Hornady Mach 2 (HM2) occurred last fall in southeast Wyoming, when a group of us hosted by Savage Arms and Hornady descended upon the Cowboy State for two days of prairie dogging. If you need more encouragement, read on to learn why I fell for Savage’s superb autoloader.
With a street price around $300, it’s priced low enough that every small-game hunter should own one. It’s damn near as reliable as a centerfire, highly accurate and affordable to shoot. I’ll come right out and say it: Savage’s A17 might be the best autoloading rimfire design on the market.
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