NRA Gun of the Week: Thompson/Center¹s Venture II

Check out our NRA gun of the Week video examination of a second-generation bolt-action hunting rifle from Thompson/Center. ↓ ↓ ↓


T/C provides a 22” button-rifled barrel featuring 5R-style rifling, target-style muzzle crown and threading at the muzzle for accessories with its Venture II bolt-action rifle. The rifle's receiver comes drilled and tapped for optics; Weaver-style bases are included. The Venture II series is available in a full suite of chamberings, nine total, in both long- and short-action cartridges. Our review model is chambered for a cartridge hard not to accept as a good one—6.5 mm Creedmoor—and a cartridge that provides a fairly-light recoil impulse and slippery, high ballistic coefficient, 6.5 mm bullets.

Taking a look at the Venture II’s receiver, there is a right-hand bolt handle, right-side ejection port and two-position safety mounted on the right side just behind the bolt. T/C utilizes a three-lug head for lockup, and as such, requires only 60 degrees of rotation to lock and unlock. A sliding-plate extractor and plunger ejector are used on the push-feed-style action. Thompson/Center provides a three-round detachable box magazine to feed its Venture II rifle.

Bringing the Venture rifle series to its next generation, Thompson/Center enhanced the rifle's trigger function equating in the Generation II trigger—an adjustable mechanism with blade-in-shoe safety.

Check out our video above for more details.

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