Category: Rifle Reviews
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Savage 12FV Review
The Savage 12FV is a bolt action rifle exclusive to Cabela’s. It has a varmint profile (kinda heavy) barrel, oversized bolt handle, jeweled bolt, synthetic stock, and uses a blind top-load magazine. This Savage has the top bolt release, not the bottom one like some other Savage rifles. Although they say it’s a varmint rifle,…
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Carcano M91 Carbine Review
The Carcano is an Italian, bolt action rifle used from 1891 through WWII. It uses a 6 round, Mannlicher-style internal en-bloc clip that auto drops out the bottom on the last round. The first models were done in 6.5×52, then they tried 30 cal for a while before going back to the 6.5. But this…
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Maple Ridge Armoury Renegade Review
The Maple Ridge Armoury (MRA) Renegade is a Canadian-made, manually-actuated, straight pull rifle in 223 sized family. Although it looks like an AR15, the lower receiver, upper receiver, and BCG are all proprietary and you can’t swap in AR versions of any of those. Note: the Maple Ridge Maverick, the 308-sized version, is coming in…
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Marlin XT-22 Review
I’m continuing my off-season rimfire craze, now with the Marlin XT-22. The XT 22 is a low price point, magazine fed, bolt action 22 LR. This rifle comes in hardwood, synthetic, stainless, camo, heavy barrel, threaded for suppressors, tubular magazine, and 22 WMR versions. There’s also the XT-22Y youth model as well as XT-17 17…
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WS-MCR Review
The WS-MCR is an improved version of the Armalite 180B. Like the 180B, it’s a non-restricted, semi-automatic, 223 cartridge family of rifles. They’re Canadian-made and they’re available in 5.56/223, 224 Valkyrie, and 7.62×39. In this case, I’m reviewing the 5.56 model, which will be a lot more popular than other chamberings. Because the firing pin…
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Cadex CDX-R7 Sheepdog Review
The Cadex CDX-R7 Sheepdog and Shepherd precision rifles were designed as PRS or tactical ready rifles with a lot of features for the price. Using a Rem700 footprint custom action with a 4 lug short throw bolt, a fluted match grade barrel, adjustable aluminum-skeleton micro chassis, and adjustable custom trigger, the rifle packs a lot…
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Ruger PC Carbine Review
The Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) market has really exploded in the last few years, with more manufacturers joining in the game. Ruger has brought out the Ruger PC Carbine (sometimes called the Ruger PC9), a takedown PCC. In a crowded field of other PCC’s how does it fare? It’s $549.99 in the US, and $839…
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ISSC SPA Straight Pull Review
The ISSC SPA is a straight pull rimfire rifle made in Austria. Launched somewhere around 2014/2015 in 22LR, 17HMR, and 22WMR, there are shockingly few reviews available online, and none are in-depth. There are no in-depth reviews for the SPA/Scout, the Steyr Scout-esque stocked version of the straight pull SPA either. I borrowed this rifle…
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Scorpio EM332A 22LR Review
The Scorpio EM332A is a Chinese manufactured, bolt action 22LR. The action itself is based on the Anschutz 54, so accuracy could potentially be very good. In fact, the 322 action is the same as that on the Norinco NS522 that I saw amazing accuracy out of. So, is the Scorpio EM332A a great way…
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ATRS Modern Sporter Review
The ATRS (Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply) Modern Sporter is a Canadian-made, semi-automatic rifle similar to the AR15, but is non-restricted. Sold in upper/lower pairs or built to spec by ATRS, the Modern Sporter is an ergonomic, flexible Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) platform that you can build to whatever price point, weight, and accuracy you want.…