2024 Spring Varmint Rifles & Cartridges

On the Cover... A Horizon Firearms Vandal X 22 Creedmoor with a SilencerCo Hybrid 46M suppressor and a Nightforce NXS 5.5-22x 50mm scope alongside an ICOtec 320 predator call and Hornady ammunition. Photograph by Zak May

Table of Contents 

Feature PG 4 22 Creedmoor The New Speedy Varmint Cartridge by Zak May

Article PG 10 6mm ARC Varmint Loads in HOWA's Mini Action Rifles Two Lightweight HOWA Rifles by S. Maroon

Feature PG 18 220 Swift Load Developments Breathing New Life Into a Classic Cartridge by Jeremiah Polacek

Article PG 26 The 22 Hornet Rises Again In a Ruger Super Redhawk by Stan Trzoniec  

Article PG 32 The Sad Saga of the 17 Mach 2 Great on Small Targets by Layne Simpson 

Feature PG 38 6mm Remington Ackley Improved Optimizing the BIB 95-Grain Flatbased Bullet by Jason Stanley

Article PG 46 A Wolf for Varmints Performance First, Beauty Last by Art Merrill

Article PG 52 204 Ruger A Great Varmint Cartridge by Jeremiah Polacek

Feature PG 58 22 ARC (24 Grendel) Varmint Loads A New and Ultra-Efficient Cartridge by S. Maroon