The 22 Creedmoor is the cartridge to look at if you want .22 caliber with reach — a 6mm Creedmoor necked down to take long, high-BC .22 bullets, which is a different proposition from the fast-and-light .22 centerfires that came before it.
Fourteen rifles carry it. Every one of them is a bolt action, and that is not an accident of what one shop stocks. It is worth understanding before you buy, because if what you actually want is a semi-automatic, this is the wrong cartridge and there is a better answer below.
The rifles
Sorted by weight, because the twist is settled — see below — and weight is what you notice on the fourth stand of the morning.
| Rifle | Weight | Barrel | Twist | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergara Cima CF Sniper Gray Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle | 6 lb | 20in | 1:8 | 4+1 |
| CVA Scout Matte Blued Single Shot Rifle | 6 lb | 20in | 1:8 | 1 |
| Bergara B14 Crest Carbine Sniper Gray Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle - | 6.25 lb | 20in | 1:8 | 5+1 |
| Bergara Sportsman’s Exclusive B-14 Hunter Stainless Steel OD Green | 6.3 lb | 18in | 1:8 | 4+1 |
| Bergara Premier MgLite Graphite Black Cerakote/Burnt Bronze Cerakot | 6.8 lb | 20in | — | 5+1 |
| Weatherby 307 Alpine MDT Black Bolt Action Rifle | 6.8 lb | 22in | 1:8 | 3+1 |
| Bergara B14 Crest Sniper Gray Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle | 7 lb | 20in | 1:8 | 5+1 |
| CVA Cascade XT OD Green/Graphite Black Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle - | 7.25 lb | 22in | — | 4+1 |
| Weatherby 307 Range XP Black Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle – 22in | 7.3 lb | 22in | 1:8 | 5+1 |
| Weatherby Model 307 Adventure SD Graphite Black Cerakote Bolt Actio | 7.3 lb | 22in | 1:8 | — |
| Weatherby 307 Range SF Tungsten Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle | 7.9 lb | 22in | 1:8 | 5+1 |
| Bergara B-14 HMR Black Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle | 9.7 lb | 20in | 1:8 | 5+1 |
| Bergara HMR Wilderness Gray Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle | 9.7 lb | 20in | — | 5+1 |
| Weatherby 307 Alpine ST Graphite Black Cerakote Bolt Action Rifle - | — | 22in | 1:8 | 4+1 |
Three makers between them: Bergara seven, Weatherby five, CVA two. Ruger is absent, which is worth a raised eyebrow given how much of the modern varmint market Ruger otherwise holds — its Generation II Predator is offered in nine chamberings and 22 Creedmoor is not among them.
The spread that matters is weight. There are six pounds and nine and a half pounds on the same table, both in the same chambering. The light ones are carbon-barrelled mountain rifles and the heavy ones are built to sit still on a bipod. That is a bigger practical difference than anything else here.
Why there is no AR in 22 Creedmoor
The 22 Creedmoor comes from the 6mm Creedmoor, a short-action bolt cartridge, and nothing in the current catalog chambers it in a semi-automatic of any size. A search filtered for AR-10 and for semi-autos returns the same fourteen bolt guns.
If you want an AR, the cartridge you want is the 22 ARC, and Hornady is explicit about why they built it — in their words, it is “a compact cartridge that fits into your AR-15 but is equally at home in a bolt action”, bringing performance “that rivals the 22-250, to the AR-15 platform.”
There is a wrinkle worth knowing. Hornady designed the ARC cartridges around the AR-15, but the rifles actually being sold in them are mostly bolt guns. Of the 22 ARC rifles in this catalog, none is an AR. The 6mm ARC does better with two semi-autos against twelve bolt actions. So the AR cartridges exist, the AR rifles are thinner on the ground than the marketing suggests, and the one cartridge built purely for AR-15 predator work — the .224 Valkyrie — currently returns no rifles at all.
That is one retailer, and a shop that specializes in ARs would show a different balance. But if the plan is an AR in a modern .22, it is worth checking what is actually being built rather than what was announced.
Twist
1:8 across every rifle that publishes a figure, which is the whole point of the cartridge. That is fast enough for the heavy, long, high-BC .22 bullets the 22 Creedmoor exists to shoot — the 75s, 80s and 88s on the 22 Creedmoor load data.
Compare that with the .22-250, where the twist you happen to buy decides which half of the ammunition you can use, and where thirteen of forty rifles still ship the traditional 1:14. The 22 Creedmoor has no such argument: there is one twist, it is the right one, and every load made for the cartridge assumes it.
How this was checked
The fourteen rifles were listed in a major US retailer’s catalog on 4 September 2026, with weight, barrel, twist and capacity taken from that retailer’s published specification for each model. Three do not publish a twist and those cells are empty rather than filled in from elsewhere.
A catalog listing is not a stock check. That retailer handles firearms through its stores, so every rifle shows the same state regardless of availability. This is what is currently catalogd, not what is on a shelf today.
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