Fierce Firearms Carbon Rival XP 2.0 6mm CM 20" Rifle

This Carbon Rival XP 2.0 is chambered in 6mm Creedmoor with a 20 inch barrel and a black finish. Fierce builds the Carbon Rival around a carbon fiber stock, which is how a bolt action this size stays light without turning into something that walks its groups around as it heats up. It is a bolt action aimed squarely at hunters who also shoot targets on the weekends.

6mm Creedmoor is the cartridge that made a lot of shooters stop apologizing for small bullets. It shoots flat, wind drift stays manageable, recoil is mild enough to spot your own hits, and barrel life is reasonable for the performance on offer. On deer sized game it does everything asked of it inside sensible ranges, and on varmints it is genuinely excellent. Twenty inches is the length that makes sense for a rifle that gets carried in the field rather than left on a bench. Put good glass on it, work up a load it likes, and it will do useful work well past where most people are comfortable shooting.