.17 Rimfire

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.17 Rimfire may refer to a number of different cartridges or firearms that use them. The cartridges all use rimfire cases and fire .17 inch (4.5 mm) bullets. While .17 caliber airguns generally use .177 inch projectiles (4.50 mm), .17 caliber firearms, both rimfire and centerfire, generally measure .172 inch (4.37 mm).

.17 Rimfire cartrdges include:

.17 Hornaday Magnum Rimfire'', the first production .17 caliber rimfire introduced in 2002
.17 Hornaday Mach 2, introduced in 2004
Any of a number of .17 caliber wildcat cartridges based on rimfire cases. Most of these were, like the .17 HMR, based on the .22 WMR.

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