Varmint Express .17 HMR
Hard-hitting, flat shooting, and incredibly versatile, the .17 HMR offers long-range knockdown power in a rimfire platform. This necked cartridge benefits from a flatter trajectory and improved accuracy over .22LR, and is an ideal choice for small game at medium to long range.
The .17 HMR can deliver up to 250 ft-lbs of energy at 100 yards, more than enough stopping power for pests on your property. Rabbit, possum, raccoon, and prairie dogs are easily dispatched at 200 yards by a skilled marksman with the .17HMR. A varmint’s worst nightmare, the .17 HMR in a Golden Boy H004V or Henry Varmint Express H001V is a potent rimfire companion.
This is the rifle the range riders of the 1800’s would have loved to have had close at hand for picking off varmints or just plinking at whiskey bottles. But since the .17HMR didn’t hit the market until 2002, it will be up to you to make it a legend.
Our Henry Varmint Express® rifle packs eleven .17HMR rounds in its tubular magazine. It features a 20″ barrel, comes with a checkered American walnut Monte Carlo stock. Like all lever action Henrys, the action is incredibly smooth from the very first shot. It will enable small game and varmint hunters to take full advantage of the .17HMR with regard to velocity, trajectory, wind drift, ricochet resistance, quietness and accuracy.
Already considered by many to be the most accurate rimfire cartridge ever produced, the .17HMR incorporates a .17 caliber bullet into a necked-down .22 magnum case. This high-powered combination produces a sizzlin’ muzzle velocity of up to 2,550 feet per second and the laser-flat trajectory makes it lethal for long-range shots on woodchucks, prairie dogs, foxes and other small varmints. Henry’s take on this revolutionary caliber, the Varmint Express, has a 20″ barrel that delivers dead-on accuracy.
Just like all Henry rifles, it’s handcrafted in the United States using only high-grade components such as a checkered American walnut stock, and Williams Fire sights and, of course, it’s outfitted with that legendary, smooth-operating lever action that sets a Henry rifle apart from all the imitators.
