Introduction
Towards the end of summer every year, my attention turns towards hunting rifles. The excitement of hunting big game in the cold and often snowy mountains is an awesome adventure I look forward to every year. For me, one of the main focus points during hunting is on the rifles we rely on. Today I bring you a rifle worthy of these rugged Rocky Mountain hunts; the Bergara B14 Crest Carbon rifle, chambered in the very popular 308 Winchester.
The Crest Carbon rifle incorporates a great deal of Bergara’s technological advancements. And most of those features help make this rifle an exceptional hunting tool. Today we are going to take a deep dive into both the rifle and the mountains it was meant to traverse. We’ll see how the Crest Carbon rifle stands up to heavy use, long hikes, sharp shots, inclement weather and accurate field shooting.
The Bergara B14 Crest Carbon Rifle
There are new features to the Crest Carbon rifle, but it is still built around the very popular B14 action. Bergara has done a very good job perfecting the Remington 700 footprint through their B14. It incorporates nearly all the benefits, and brings additional features and quality to the most popular design in use today.
Additionally, Bergara’s Cure Carbon barrel is used in this rifle. The Cure Carbon is an advanced technological design that uses both carbon fiber wrapping as well as a stainless steel mesh to wick heat from the bore.
As if that wasn’t enough, the rifle uses Bergara’s own carbon fiber stock. The Crest Carbon rifle stock uses a carbon spine to maintain rigidity, surrounded by hand-laid carbon fiber. The lightweight stock is both handsome and effective, with dual sling studs up front as well as QD flush cups mounted in the key spots for your sling.
The rifle is available in a variety of calibers from .223 Remington up to 300WM, and barrels lengths vary from 20-inches up to 24-inches. Barrel lengths and twist are optimized for each of the various calibers, but all of them use AICS style magazines. They also use Bergara’s adjustable trigger which is a fine option in my experience.
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One of my kids used the Crest Carbon to take his second buck. In the whipping wind at 8000 feet, we put the sneak on this little buck. Closing the distance over steep terrain. With his rifle a top the tripod, he let one shot loose from the Bergara and put a DTM 175 gr 308 Round through the boiler room.
Packing out both the deer and the rest of our gear, it was nice to have such a lightweight rifle like the Crest Carbon.
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