The 6.5x55 mm Swedish is an age-old cartridge, drafted for military duty by Sweden and Norway in 1894. The 6.5 mm Swede has also been rejuvenated in recent years due to interest in a host of popular new 6.5 mm cartridges and the stream of new bullets, initially intended for those cartridges, that make the now-classic Swede an even better target and hunting cartridge.
When a powerhouse gunmaker shifts gears, the industry takes notice, and so it goes when shotgun specialist Benelli moves into the rifle market with their first-ever bolt action. Debuted to a packed house at the 2020 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Though the Lupo, Italian for wolf, is Benelli’s first crack at the bolt-action hunting rifle market, from the looks of things, this animal has been a long time in the making. It intends, as the company advertises, to “dominate the land the way Benelli’s Super Black Eagle dominates the skies,” per company advertising. Guns.com finds out if the Lupo is a legit predator in a packed hunting rifle market.