The 7mm Backcountry, being a long and skinny round, works best with mags for the .30/06. MDT makes some excellent .30/06-sized magazines, and I used their 3.715-inch model.

Jon Draper recently had the pleasure of testing a beautiful custom rifle built to take on the biggest, meanest and nastiest ...

Federal just introduced a new rifle cartridge called the 7mm Backcountry. The company claims that it’s a high performance, all-range cartridge that reinvents ammunition as we know it. That’s ...

In some respects this is back to the future because in the 1930s the United States was developing a new combat rifle and weapons using both 6.8mm and 5.56mm rounds were evaluated. The winning American ...

If successful, the new rifle and round combination would give troops a weapon they can carry with about the same number of rounds as the current 5.56 mm but with greater range and accuracy in ...

The Army's new M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round is performing well under combat conditions in Afghanistan, but how does it stack up during a rifle competition?