[Matteo1371]

She’s a beauty. Haven’t seen a 17-222 since I was a kid. Believe these were popular in the early to mid ‘70s. Sort of funny this popped up with KAK’s 17-556 cartridge making the rounds with the community. Looks like interest in the 17 cal is resurfacing.

 

[doggiecareman]

Have it rechambered to .222 Remington

 

[vikingsoftpaw]

He had another one like it in .222 Rem Mag that is also very beautiful. I would likely keep it since it has a heavier barrel and in a caliber I can still find...

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Wow!!! That is a mighty fine piece of wood! I'd hate to rechamber anything like that.

As others have stated, the .17-222 is a wildcat. It dates from the post WW II era. .17-222 brass is available, so handloading will not be too difficult.

 

[DrLogik]

These links might help also. There appears to be more than one .17 x 222:

17 Caliber Wildcats

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These guys might be able to make you some cases:

Quality Cartridge Home

 

[drobs]

Here's a 17 javelina for sale on Gunbroker. Uses 222 cases necked down to 17

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1008076929

Description:

"Used Sako L461 17 javelina with A&M rifle Co barrel and Lyman all American Scope--I believe this rifle was originally a .222 Rem but rebarreled to be 17 Javelina
Gun is in excellent shape, wood is good with a couple of minor indentations, bluing is good with two scratches on barrel (see photos); test fired and worked well, one cartridge sticks and needs help getting ejected but I suspect that is the brass itself that needs resizing

Lyman scope is All American 8 X
Includes 55 spent cartridges (222 Rem resized), 43 resized cartridges with primers (must ship sepearately, also 222 Rem resized), 98 222 Rem deprimed cartridges (need resizing), 9 boxes of 17 bullets (some Lee, some Hornady, see photos), dies, and almost all you would need minus the powder and primers to get started loading 17 javelina"

 

[vart]

I actually found some rounds labeled 17 Javelina in my father's collection, but no rifle for it.

I also found hundreds of handloaded blackpowder rounds in 38-55, 40-65, and 40-90 with no guns that match. Very specific match loads for BPCR and Schuetzen competitions. Extremely valuable to a few, but worthless to most.

 

[drobs]

I actually found some rounds labeled 17 Javelina in my father's collection, but no rifle for it.

I also found hundreds of handloaded blackpowder rounds in 38-55, 40-65, and 40-90 with no guns that match. Very specific match loads for BPCR and Schuetzen competitions. Extremely valuable to a few, but worthless to most.

Anyone that shoots those competitions reloads their own ammo and casts their own bullets. So really the only value would be the brass. My neighbor shoots BPCR and I find it interesting. There's no crimp in his cases, you can pull out the paper patched bullet by hand or just turn the cartridge upside down...