The High Powered Rifle is a 1960 American action film produced and directed by Maury Dexter and written by Joseph Fritz.

The film stars Willard Parker, Allison Hayes, Dan Simmons, John Holland, Shirley O'Hara and Terrea Lea.

In the mid 1950s 20th Century-Fox created a separate film company to make second features in CinemaScope initially called Regal Pictures, then Associated Producers Incorporated or API.

As an experiment, Robert Lippert told API producer Maury Dexter he wished to make films at half the budget and release them as double features in the manner of American International Pictures and Roger Corman's Filmgroup.

[6][7][1] Dexter said the film's title came from Lippert and Harry Spaulding had to write a script to suit it.