Opening and connecting with just a quarter-twist and offering an extremely simple breakdown, the new A22 Takedown weighs just 6 pounds, making it an ideal go-anywhere rifle.
Winchester introduces the Wildcat, a striker-fired autoloading rimfire rifle that is a snap to clean because its lower receiver is easily removed from the upper with a push of a button; then hunters punch the bore by merely insert a cleaning rod through the rifle's rear access port, protecting the crown.
Co-developed by Smith & Wesson Performance Center and Thompson/Center Arms, the new Performance Center T/CR22 rimfire rifles—built around the reliable T/CR22 action—are outfitted with thumbhole stocks and heavy contour, button-rifled barrels.
The new Thompson/Center T/CR22 is one very useful rifle. Its design should appeal to millennials and baby boomers alike, and several of its features build on the strengths that attract hunters to rimfires.
Traditions Performance Firearms’ Crackshot rimfire is well designed, well put together and durable as a digging bar—all for the price of three tanks of diesel.
For 2018, Ruger introduces another rifle to existing arsenal of rimfire beauties. The RPR takes the Ruger American Rimfire bolt-action and places it in a “precision” one-piece chassis manufactured with strengthening glass-filled nylon.