Rifle weigh is like politics, in that everyone has an opinion, largely based on what they want to do,and where.
For me, I might go from Wyoming in October,to Maine or Alberta in November,and (like last year) Kansas in December. Might be sitting cut lines, field edges,still hunting heavy cover anywhere,or stretching 400-500 yards across a canyon, or in a buck brush jungle on foot on the side of a mountain.
Conditions vary,often all in the same day and from hour to hour. The rifle has to work pretty well everywhere for me, no matter the chambering. Reason is I am 500 to 3000 miles from home and never know what I will bump into. I can only take "one".
I have found that something relatively light suits me better, in more circumstances, than something heavy.This has yet not to work.
