The muzzle looks a bit ungainly, but the design allows for a slimmer barrel and therefore a lighter gun. The 22-inch barrel is fluted, and it’s threaded 5/8x24. I like this scope and think it’s a good mate for the Patriot Predator, but it does weigh 22 ounces and you could go to a lighter scope if you wanted to pare overall gun weight to less than eight pounds. Mounting a Nightforce SHV 3-10x42mm (see review on page 10) boosted total unloaded weight to eight pounds, five ounces.
As someone who dislikes protruding magazines in hunting guns, this makes me happy-as does the fact it can be top-loaded.īare weight of the rifle is 6.5 pounds, which I think is right at the sweet spot for a hunting rifle meant to be carried a lot. The heart of the Predator is a twin-lug, push-feed action, and the 6.5 PRC Predator version feeds from a detachable, four-round polymer box magazine that fits flush and is easy to top-load. The Patriot line is perhaps the most consistently accurate of today’s crop of affordable bolt actions. The 6.5 PRC brings the energy without the recoil and blast of the bigger 6.5s, and this makes it a great pairing for a rifle like the Patriot Predator. 260 but not quite on the power level of the. The 6.5 PRC stands in the middle, considerably faster than the Creedmoor and the. Today there are seven factory cartridges of that diameter trying to establish supremacy: 6.5 Creedmoor. Hornady’s 6.5 PRC is one of the newer 6.5mm entrants in the battle for the hearts and minds of America’s hunters. Sure, the rifle will get the job done on coyotes and such at any shootable distance, but the cartridge also has the speed, energy and trajectory to make it an excellent choice for whitetails, mule deer, pronghorns, black bear, sheep and more. The newest Mossberg Patriot Predator is one such case.Īctually, calling this rifle “Predator” does the combination a bit of a disservice, because the new 6.5 PRC chambering makes it one of the most versatile big game rifles out there. Occasionally, though, a rifle/cartridge combination comes along that’s impressive enough to make it worth reexamination. We’ve published a review on the Mossberg Patriot Predator before, and normally I wouldn’t go back to the same well.
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