I might add...that I found 17 Hornet a little hard to get used to. By that I mean, I found it hard to process getting almost .223-like results, but recoil/report closer to 17HMR...taking longer shots and half-expecting crawl-aways..that never actually happened. I've also always wanted an excuse to buy a 527, but had a couple of varmint guns already..just made sense. A new-ish caliber like 17WSM, coupled with Winchester ammo (Winchester 22, 17HMR, 22WMR have all been lackluster, to put it mildly) and a fairly homely-looking Savage to run it through initially? Just wasn't on the radar for me personally, but I can see the merit if you don't hand load, and don't feel like dumping that much into a CZ.
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