[quote=nyrifleman]......One of these days I'd love to throw mine into an edge and shave almost 1/2 a pound. You have great taste in rifles. How does yours shoot by the way??
Back in the 80's, as now, most manufacturers made 7 rem mags a bit too much on the heavy side. I solved this by sending a pre 64 FWaction with alloy BM to Butch Searcy along with a Krieger 9 twist tube. We played with the contour until we got it right and Butch bedded it in a Brown Precision stock. The result was a rifle that weigheda skosh over 7-1/4 pounds scoped.
It was incredibly accurate with 7828 and 160 partitions at 3100 fps; 140 BBCs at 3250 or so. I hunted it all over for about 15 years. It was a big hit and someone was always trying to buy it. Eventually the barrel went south. I have built a couple more aon Classic actions that went under 8#s but never quite as light.
