Friend of mine that works here with me put together a small caliber varminter for his wife.
It is a custom Contender Carbine by Match Grade Machine, and he had the barrel fluted in a Double Diamond flute pattern, and the flutes cerakoted in USMC Red...then had the stock cerakoted to match.
Only weighs around 7# scoped (Burris 4.5-14x).
Caliber is .17 Fireball....we're supposed to go out in a couple of weeks to give it a test drive.
I told him you definitely dint have to worry about laying it down somewhere and losing it.