Proof Research Elevation MTR 2.0 22 Creedmoor 20" Midnight Rifle

22 Creedmoor is what happens when the prairie dog crowd and the steel crowd want the same rifle. Take a 6mm Creedmoor case, neck it down to .224, and load the long, heavy match bullets that arrived once shooters started chasing bullet shape instead of raw speed. What comes out is a round that shoots flat, tracks in wind far better than a 223, and recoils so little that watching your own trace through the scope is routine. Barrel life is the tax you pay for the velocity, and everyone who runs one knows it going in.

This build is a Proof Research Elevation MTR 2.0 with a 20 inch barrel and a Midnight finish. Twenty inches keeps a fast twenty two caliber cartridge manageable to carry and handy from a bag or a bipod without stretching the rifle out to bench proportions. It is a sensible length for a rifle that gets used across a pasture on varmints one weekend and on steel at distance the next. Bring more ammunition than you planned on; light recoil and a flat trajectory make a rifle like this hard to put down.