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Hi! Hi!, I'm Bob Martin - President of Armed America L.L.C. and our growing family of websites! I'd like to welcome you to your new home on the web for tips, and tricks for shooting and modifying America's newest weapon caliber, the .17 magnum. We are still in the process of building our site, so if there is anything you would like added, just let us know!

Even though we are a brand new website/magazine, we already have several projects in the works.

We are looking forward to a design project with our sister site (www.Ruger22.com) this winter, to see if we can convert a Ruger 10/22 safely to fire the new .17 Mach 2 rounds that will be out this fall.

And we will also be reporting on the release of the the NEW Golden Boy 17HMR from Henry Repeating Arms



set for release early this fall and just in time for Christmas shopping!

As always, if there is anything special you would like us to look into, be it ammunition, guns, or accessories, just ask and we will be happy to do what we can!





HOT NEWS! -- From Uncle Bob

Our spies have returned from the Shot Show in lost Wages (Expense Account be dammed!), and the hottest new development for us .17 caliber magnum lovers is the NEW .17 Mach 2.

Created in a joint development by Hornady and CCI, the NEW Mach 2 is going to have as huge an impact on the world of rimfire as the 17hmr did.

The engineer/machinist teams have developed a cartridge with a case length that equal to the 22lr, and necked it down to .17 caliber, rammed a hornady v-max bullet into it, and have produced muzzle velocities of over 2,000 feet per second!

Now keep in mind that at 150 yards, that little bullet is traveling faster than the standard .22LR is at the muzzle!

These same engineers/machinists did some very extensive testing under tightly controlled conditions and also discovered that the mach 2 is now twice as accurate as the 22LR!

Looking at a drop rate chart (like the one Ruger displays in its new 2004 catalog) dramatically shows how much better the .17 caliber is at 100 yard target shooting than the .22LR.

With almost zero drop, while the .22LR has around a 6 inch drop, imagine what will happen to your 100 yard target groups with an even more powerful mach 2 .17 caliber round (not to mention those "Buck a Card" bets with your shooting range buddies!)

There are rumors floating around that the price per box of the new rounds is going to be closer to the cost of a normal box/brick of .22LRs, and some retailers are already taking advanced orders at these lower prices.

Eley, Hornady and CCI will be the first to the market the ammo, and you can expect to see the mach 2’s hitting the dealer shelves around the end of this summer.

Now comes the only hurdle.

The only gun manufacturer that would commit as yet to a mach 2 firearm capable delivery date was Taurus. The high capacity manufacturer promises to have a small revolver available by late summer.

We here at 17caliber.com will see if we can grab an evaluation model soon and give you a sneak peak!

--Uncle Bob

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