Ep. 381 | .22 Mag vs .17 HMR — Magnum Rimfire Reconnaissance

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After hitting the range and shooting the 17 HMR and 22 Mag into gel, all signs point to a clear winner. So why are the guys still perplexed as to which one they’d select? Tune in as they break down the results.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:15.5	What is up, everybody, Mark on the mic, my good friend, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern, across from me.
0:23.1	And welcome to cartridge talks fully loaded.
0:26.0	This is 17 HMR versus 22 meg mass versus velocity, which the mass on the 22 meg side, velocity on the 17 HMR side.
0:40.3	Who wins in this deal, Ryan?
0:41.7	We shot some gel, ran some numbers.
0:45.5	This is an interesting one.
0:47.4	It is.
0:47.8	Point of order.
0:49.3	M.C. Ryan was clever enough to fashion us a tool that I promptly broke, which really was a B in Mark's
0:56.9	bonnet. It aggravated me. Here's why it aggravated me. Now hold on. I wasn't going to bring it up.
1:01.0	Let me finish. Let me finish. Mark fixed it and he did a really good job. Go ahead, Mark.
1:07.3	I was aggravated because I was excited about this because I saw it on the table.
1:11.9	I only assumed that it came from MC Ryan's kit from his former employment.
1:17.8	I'd hold the item up here, Ryan.
1:19.5	I mean, like at first glance, you might, oh, yeah, you could cut some gel with that thing.
1:22.9	I think you could do a few other things with it.
1:24.9	Now, not that maybe we've received a faulty one, but it broke immediately.
1:29.7	And what I felt we might miss with you pre-using it while we were not even recording anything
1:36.5	yet, is the spontaneity and the excitement of using this for the first time.
1:41.7	And then you said, what's going to happen, Mark?
1:45.3	And then karma caught up to and it broke immediately.
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