Fierce Firearms Carbon Mini Rogue 2.0 22 Creedmoor 20" Rifle

22 Creedmoor is a specialist cartridge and it is worth knowing what it is before buying into it. Take a 6.5 Creedmoor case, neck it down to .224, and load the heavy target bullets that bullet makers started producing once fast twist .22 barrels became common. The result reaches distances the .223 case cannot and drifts less in wind than a 6mm, all while recoiling like a rimfire by comparison.

The catch is barrel life. Pushing small bullets that hard is hard on throats, and a barrel that sees heavy volume will not last the way a 6.5 barrel does. Shooters who run it for coyotes, prairie dogs at distance and steel matches accept that trade because nothing else spots its own impacts so easily. A 20 inch barrel is a sensible middle ground for the cartridge, long enough to burn the charge and short enough to keep a compact rifle compact. The Carbon Mini Rogue 2.0 is the small frame stock in the Fierce Rogue family, built around a reduced length of pull. Drop a fast, flat cartridge into a short stocked bolt gun and the result suits a shooter who spends more time prone behind a bipod than walking a fence line.