17 HMR Ballistics Chart & Drop Table

Article Posted: July 11, 2012

The .17 HRM or Hornady Magnum Rimfire is a tiny varmint round that is so small that it is said to explode on contact sparing the surrounding livestock. This makes it a great farm rifle, and an even better fun rifle. This mini bullet is lightweight and because of this is easily effected by the external forces of nature.

The drop of this bullet is such at 1000 yards that we decided to just do a 500 yard ballistic spec chart.

For this we used the .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (HMR), Hornady XTP, 20gr a common .17 hmr round. This bullet at 250 yds (half the mapped journey) has dropped 21.8749in (1.8 feet) the velocity has slowed some 1236fps as it went from 2374fps to to 1138.

At the end of the journey the 500 yard mark the bullet has dropped 210.9172 in (17ft), has a velocity of 800fps, all this in 1.27 seconds.

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A A .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (HMR), Hornady XTP, 20gr

Range	Drop (inches)		Velocity		Energy		Time (milliseconds)
	A		A		A		A
0	-1.4912		2374		250		0
50	0.2896		2062		189		68
100	0.0097		1776		140		147
150	-3.0493		1521		103		238
200	-9.8953		1304		76		345
250	-21.8749		1138		58		468
300	-40.5536		1028		47		607
350	-67.4461		952		40		759
400	-103.9289		893		35		922
450	-151.3142		843		32		1095
500	-210.9172		800		28		1278

.17 HMR or .223 for Long Range

As you can see from the chart below the .17 hrm really takes a nose dive at about the 250 yard marker, as compared to the .223 a larger round (also a varmint round). So we would suggest using something other than a .17hmr if shooting out past 250 yards. The bullet is just to small for ultra long range shots, but performs awesome under 250 yards or so. Both of these bullets are v-max hornady by the way.

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