Horizon Firearms Core Bandit 308 Win 18" 5rd Rifle

An 18" 308 is a working rifle. That barrel length makes sense if you hunt out of a stand or a blind, if you cover ground in thick country, or if you are simply tired of fighting a long barrel in and out of a vehicle. You give up a little velocity against a 22" tube. At the distances where most 308 shooting actually happens it is a trade nobody notices on the target, and what you get back is a rifle that comes up and points instead of one that has to be wrestled into position.

308 Winchester is still the most practical short action cartridge in North America. Factory ammunition sits on the shelf in every town with a hardware store, the load selection runs from light varmint bullets up to heavy bonded bullets for elk, and brass is everywhere if you handload. The Core Bandit puts that cartridge in a Horizon Firearms bolt action with a 5rd magazine. Horizon builds custom rifles as its main business and the Core line is the production expression of that work. Nothing here is exotic. It is a 308 bolt gun built properly, in the barrel length most hunters should have been buying all along.