Fierce Firearms Carbon Mini Rogue 2.0 25 Creedmoor 20" Rifle

25 Creedmoor is the quarter bore that finally got a modern home. Wildcatters had been necking the 6.5 Creedmoor case up to .257 for years before the cartridge was standardised, and the appeal is the same now as it was then: the .25 calibre bullets that bullet makers have released in the last few years are long and sleek in a way the old 25-06 never had access to, and the short Creedmoor case feeds them from a short action.

What that adds up to in the field is a deer and antelope cartridge with a flat trajectory and noticeably less recoil than a 6.5 or a .270, which is exactly the pairing a light rifle wants. Put it on a 20 inch barrel and the whole package stays short. Fierce builds this one on the Carbon Mini Rogue 2.0 stock, the compact member of the Rogue family, cut with a reduced length of pull for shooters who find a standard hunting stock too long to mount cleanly. Between the mild recoil, the short bolt stroke and a stock sized for a smaller frame, this is the kind of rifle a new hunter grows into rather than out of.