The issue isn't about weight, its really about cost and the perceived value of features.
A good portion of the RAR buyers wouldn't touch the RAR at $600 or $700 a pop. What they want is a rifle that's cheap and for some accurate.
If you could grab 100 RAR buyers (not the campfire ones but the just the run of the mill folks), they wouldn't know what a one piece bolt, open trigger, CRF etc are, nor if you told them would they care.
You won't find many hawkeyes in EDGE stocks, but I do have a MKII in a MPI stock thats just a touch over 6lbs with scope. For all practical purposes the hawkeye action weighs just about what a M70 action does, so like the M70 its not really where you want to start for an extreme LW, but you can certainly build a reasonable weight rifle off one.
