Fierce Firearms Carbon Rival XP 2.0 25 Creedmoor 22" Rifle

The Carbon Rival XP 2.0 in 25 Creedmoor with a 22 inch barrel is a hunting rifle with a target rifle's build sheet. Fierce puts a carbon fiber stock on the Carbon Rival, which is how a bolt action stays light without giving up the stiffness that produces small groups. The extra couple of inches of barrel over the shorter Rivals is worth having in a cartridge like this one.

The 25 Creedmoor is a quarter bore built on the Creedmoor case, and it is one of the more interesting cartridges to show up in years. Modern 25 caliber bullets are long and efficient, and pushed at Creedmoor pressures out of a 22 inch tube they hold velocity well past where most hunters take a shot. Recoil sits below a 270 and well below a 300 magnum, so a shooter stays in the scope and sees what happened. Deer, antelope, sheep and black bear are all inside its range. If the 6.5 Creedmoor made sense to you and you wanted a little more bullet, this is the answer to that question.