Henry Varmint Express .17 HMR Review

It’s squirrel season here on the prairie and this year my goal is to put together a rifle specifically for hunting squirrels, rabbits and varmints. With the acquisition of the Varmint Express .17 HMR rifle, I am halfway there. I have spent some serious time shooting this rifle, but I still need to mount a scope on it. That’s the other half.

Why I Choose the Henry Varmint Express .17 HMR

I chose the Varmint Express specifically because of the .17 HMR round. In addition, the rifle holds 11 rounds in the magazine. With a short 20- inch barrel and a Monte Carlo stock, my eyes are held up high and I look straight down the barrel quickly and easily. I want a rifle to shoot squirrels from a solid distance and deliver the power for rabbits, coons, squirrels and foxes. The .17 HMR round is a .17 caliber on a .22-magnum case and provides a muzzle velocity of 2,550 feet per second. This is a flat shooting son of a gun.

Once my Varmint Express rifle is scoped and set up, it will become my go-to gun for small game hunting. I am even looking forward to the end of rifle deer season because come December I will be a rabbit- and squirrel-hunting fool with this rifle. With a 12-round capacity it will be fun to load up the rifle, take a walk and come back with a couple of rabbits and squirrels from each farm. In the meantime, I am shopping for a scope.

Check out the Henry Varmint Express .17 HMR.

If you are looking for a great rifle that is an absolute blast to shoot with long range capability along with easily and readily available ammunition, take a serious look at the Henry Varmint Express .17 HMR. This is a serious rifle that can reach out and touch at long distances. This rifle will be great with the kids on our adventures on the farm. It has the distance, is easy to mount to the shoulder and works with my little left handed, left-eye dominant shooters and it looks great. Most importantly this rifle is fun to shoot and isn’t that really the point?

About Henry Repeating Arms:

Henry Repeating Arms is one of the leading rifle and shotgun manufacturers in the United States and a world leader in the lever action category. The company motto is “Made in America, or not made at all” and its firearms come with a lifetime guarantee backed by award-winning customer service. The company is also known for its charitable endeavors under its Guns For Great Causes program, which focuses on sick children, both individual cases and children’s hospitals, veteran and wounded veteran organizations, Second Amendment and wildlife conservation organizations. The company currently employs 535 people and has 250,000 square-feet of manufacturing space in its Rice Lake, Wisconsin and Bayonne, New Jersey facilities. The company is named in honor of Benjamin Tyler Henry who invented and patented the Henry rifle in 1860 – the first repeating rifle, the lever action rifle, which is America’s unique contribution to international firearms design and is one of the most legendary, respected and sought after rifles in the history of firearms. Visit Henry Repeating Arms online at www.HenryUSA.com, on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/HenryRepeating, and on Instagram @Henry_Rifles.