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On the cover: A Montana Rifle X3 6.5 PRC with a Trijicon AccuPoint 5-20x 50mm scope. This issue features 14 6.5mm cartridges in one issue: 6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge (PRC) (Pet Loads), 6.5 Winchester Short Magnum (WSM), .260 Remington, 6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum (Pet Loads), 6.5 Short Action Ultra Magnum (SAUM), 6.5-06, 6.5 Japanese and Italian, 6.5-284 Norma (Pet Loads), 6.5 Grendel, .26 Nosler, .264 Winchester Magnum, 6.5 Creedmoor, and 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser.

6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge

The popularity of 6.5mm (.264) cartridges in the U.S. has wavered for more than 60 years.

9 mins

6.5 Winchester Short Magnum

There are so many different rifle cartridges that there is no tangible reason to add expense and trouble by working with a wildcat, but the intangibles attract us.

10 mins

.260 Remington

It may sound like sacrilege to hunters and shooters who preach cartridge ballistics like bible verse, but any suitable bullet at a half way decent velocity that punches a hole through the ribs and lungs of game animals promptly results in dead game, regardless of the cartridge.

7 mins

6.5 Short Action Ultra Magnum

We will never know for certain who was first to neck down the 7mm Remington Short Action Ultra Mag case for .264-inch bullets, but George Gardner of GA Precision is the person who put the wildcat on the map. In addition to being a serious participant in Precision Rifle Series competition, he is one of its strongest supporters as well.

4 mins

6.5-06

As any thoughtful shooter knows, our sport is full of deep questions, from ethics to “hard” science. One such question is whether the performance gap between the .25-06 Remington and .270 Winchester amounts to anything.

10+ mins

6.5 Japanese And Italian

A fact little recognized among many students of World War II history is that most major combatant nations used infantry rifles and cartridges designed in the nineteenth century.

8 mins

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Rifle Magazine Description:

Rifle the sporting firearms journal is the only magazine in the world dedicated solely to rifles. Published for over 45 years Rifle covers all aspects of the rifle including gunsmithing, shooting, reloading, accuracy, and much more. Some of the topics covered include; bolt action rifles, leveraction rifles and their evolution of the years. Rifle covers classic cartridges, factory ammunition, custom gunmakers and much more. Rifle is the premiere sporting magazine dedicated to rifles.