a while back I was in the market for a 17 hmr revolver , I wanted a single six but ended up with a heritage instead due to availability . it was ok to shoot kinda fun accuracy wasn't bad my trouble was ejecting the emptys. the empty cases would kick back a bit in the cylinder and would cause the cylinder to jam while trying to spin it to the eject the next empty .the only thing that seemed to help was keeping the gun pointed downward to eject the emptys and sometimes I had to tap it on the bench a bit to move the empty case forward enough to spin the cylinder .sometimes I just had to remove the cylinder to get them out. I e mailed heritage about this and they pretty much said it was the nature of the beast and that I must have gotten someones new old stock because that revolver had been out of production for about 7 yrs. I don't know if the ruger had the same issues or not but it wouldn't surprise me if it did, im not saying none of them will work but ive heard from others and kinda agree with it myself that revolvers just aren't meant to fire with bottleneck cases . I know at one time ruger ,Taurus ,and heritage and possibly others made a 17 hmr revolver and to the best of my knowledge all are discontinued. im not trying to rain on your parade nor am I saying your revolver is garanteed to be problematic I hope for your sake its not, im just telling my experience with that caliber of revolver I ended up selling mine a few months after I bought it and yes I made sure I told the buyer of the issue .
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