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RIFLES

Belt Up!

A shooter’s Top 10: The best belted rifle cartridges ever developed.

To start off, let’s get a couple of things straight: Our purpose is to name the 10 best belted cartridges. Not the 10 most powerful. Not the 10 most accurate. The 10 best. When you say “belted,” most people think “belted magnum,” with the implication of awesome power. In some cases, it is true. In others, not. The presence or absence of a belt does not make a cartridge any more or less powerful nor, for that matter, any more or less accurate. There are some good ...

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