Rifle - Fall 2021

In this issue

On the cover: A Nosler Model 48 .24 Nosler with a Leupold VX-3i LRP 4.5-14x 50mm scope. This issue features .24 Nosler, .240 Weatherby Magnum, 6mm Creedmoor, .243 Winchester, 6mm ARC, 6mm Norma BR, 6mm Remington, 6mm-284, 6x45mm, and the .243 WSSM.

.24 Nosler

Nosler, Inc. has been busy with its ever-expanding line of bullets, the company’s homegrown rifles and a proprietary line of cartridges.

7 mins

.240 WEATHERBY MAGNUM

The .240 Weatherby Magnum gets little respect. Knowledgeable varmint hunters will spend a lot of dough to build up a custom 6mm-284 or one of the variations of the 6mm-06 wildcat rounds to get the ballistic features already available in a .240 Weatherby Magnum factory rifle: flat trajectory, good performance in wind and the ability to anchor larger game more reliably if called upon to do so.

7 mins

6MM CREEDMOOR

The 6mm Creedmoor was designed for long-range target shooting with long and skinny, heavy-for-caliber bullets that slip through the air with the greatest of ease. Wind affects these bullets little; they just fly right through it, almost unaffected.

9 mins

.243 WINCHESTER

The idea was simple enough: Friend Cole Bender from PROOF Research offered to rebarrel my Winchester Model 770 .243 Winchester, a rifle I hadn’t shot in years. When returned, I would have a heavy-barreled .243 Winchester to replace my beloved Remington 700 BDL Varminter that was sold to pay some emergency debt long ago forgotten. I can say this rebarreled 770 will never replace that old Remington, but it has the potential to do some very useful things in the field.

9 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.