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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

This was unusual in many ways. First, the rifle round used here is the 338 Norma Magnum, a round originally designed, about 40 years ago, for big game hunters and then adopted by police and military ...

Among the 34 rifle calibers on this list, prices range from $2.00 to well over $8.00 per round. Many of these calibers are designed for hunting large and dangerous game in parts of Africa and Asia.

McNaugher investigated the trade-offs when the Army went from the M14’s more powerful and accurate 7.62mm round to the M16’s smaller and lighter 5.56mm round.