#10MinuteTalk | The .17 Remington Fireball | Died a 4000 FPS Death

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Lightning fast, low recoil, mild report, and perfect for varmints — what’s not to like about the .17 Remington Fireball? Apparently, a lot. This cartridge and rifles chambered in it weren’t long for this world. Tune is as the gang chats through this ultra-cool cartridge that never got traction.

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0:00.0	Strawberry wine, 17.
0:07.8	Guys, welcome back to our holiday cartridge talk series, and that is a country song
0:13.0	dedicated to the 17 Remington Fireball.
0:17.6	Can you guys believe that they made a song all about the 17 Remington Fireball? First of all. I mean, you've done the, the music theme? Yeah. Never Dean a Carter strawberry wine. Like, it's not Christmas song. It's not a Christmas song, but it's a song all about the 17 Remington Fireball. It's the only one out there. Do you know what that song's about? Yeah, this high step in cartridge.
0:42.0	That was on country hits, 1994.
0:44.3	Hot you la moon. Jim knows it. Saw everything.
0:49.2	My first taste of love. Oh, bittersweet.
0:53.8	Boy, we really burn this one down.
0:56.3	Boy, are there do-overs?
0:58.3	Nope.
0:58.6	Are you going to them all later?
1:00.1	All right, well, I'll tell you what we are going to do.
1:01.8	We're going to talk about the 17-Rimpton Fireball, which is a cartridge that I still have
1:08.7	an extreme fondness for.
1:11.2	And I don't know why.
1:12.3	Well, it's...
1:13.2	I do know why.
1:14.2	I just...
1:15.4	It's cute.
1:16.9	It's...
1:17.2	Look at this thing.
1:18.1	It's diminutive.
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