Not sure what you're getting at, but in my part of the world a .17HMR is a rimfire cartridge, not an airgun calibre
Years ago (15+), one of my childhood friends got a "Savage" airgun for his birthday. His grandfather , who presented it to him, claimed it was an import. However, I must confess I never took it seriously, since most of what the old man spoke was a lot of bull anyway. The airgun, as I later discovered, was bought from Lajpat Nagar. It might have been the Calcutta variety. The build quality wasn't exactly much to write home about, and the gun fell apart by the time we entered college. My own IHP, on the other hand, (and my uncle's, bought the same time as the savage) are still going strong.
Though I'm not sure if the going strong bit is because both of us, having paid out our own pockets, looked after our airguns better?
"Stan, don't you know the first law of physics? Anything that's fun costs at least eight dollars."