Horizon Firearms Core Bandit 6.5 PRC 22" Rifle

6.5 PRC is the 6.5 Creedmoor's bigger brother, and the difference is roughly two hundred feet per second across the board. That does not sound like much until you are shooting past six hundred yards, where it pushes the transonic wall out far enough to matter and puts real energy on an elk at distances a Creedmoor would leave you wondering about. The cost is a magnum bolt face, more powder burned, more recoil on the shoulder, and shorter barrel life. Most people who buy one decide it is worth every bit of that.

Horizon Firearms chambers the Core Bandit in 6.5 PRC with a 22" barrel, which is on the short side for the cartridge and deliberately so. You lose some velocity against a 26" tube, but you gain a rifle that handles in the field rather than one that catches on everything, and the PRC has enough case behind it to still hit hard at the far end. Horizon's main business is custom rifles and the Core line carries that work into a catalog gun. This is the configuration for a shooter who wants reach out of a rifle they will actually carry up a mountain, not one that lives on a bench.