Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles So what does your Deer/Field rifle weigh?

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243 and 270 and I think they each weigh about 6.5lbs scoped.



With a bipod, ammo and sling maybe 7.5lbs total weight.


I have a 8.5lb deer rifle that rides in the pickup, it is easier to shoot when the engine is idling....

What scope that be?



Travis

Terrible pic, but all I got at the moment.


R700 ADL .243 22", B&C Ti, VX3 3.5-10x40. Full belly and sling puts it at 8lbs even.

Knight Ultra Lite FX2 6 x 36 loaded + sling weighs in at 7lbs even.

Leupold 1.5-5X with M1 elevation knob

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.25-06. Right under 9 lbs loaded and ready to go!

At about 60, I started noticing the weight. I put a rifle into service that helped. Careful selection of rifle, scope, mounts, and sling can make a difference.

Loose the Hubble, bi-pod, ammo carrier, and oversize sling, and the carriage wheels with the moon hubcaps, would be a good start.

Like others say, get it too light and shootability may suffer.

Now days at 78, weight doesn't bother me much, because I don't roam the mountains, hills, and dales afoot any more. I ride my Mule out to a good spot overlooking a food plot, water, or a game trail and sit and wait. Either that or near to a hide, either make shift or permanent, overlooking same.

The ranch where I hunt most straddles a state line. Some things ok in TX are not kosher in OK. Have to know where I am to stay in good graces with the wardens. , The line is partially marked with a sendero. On the rough side, I have to guess. My phone (GPS) doesn't work out there.

Jack

They weigh in the range of 8-9 lbs.

I am also in the upper age bracket at 63 and weight isn't much of an issue, mainly because Im not climbing the big hills anymore.

My fave little deer gun is the McFlame .223AI at 7.5 all up....




And my heaviest is a T/C Icon in .243 9.5 all up.
The only thing Ive used it for is "haystack Hunting" and in a pop-up blind in Texas...when you are sitting and waiting...they don't weigh so much!




Pragmatism entered the picture a long time ago. as the previous poster said...lose the Hubble...most hunting shots are under 300 yards, Bi-pod- don't need it at all,ammo carrier-theres ammo IN the gun,oversize sling-mine hardly ever wears a sling, occasionally a carrying strap...

I'm in the middle of going lightweight on the deer hunting rig. I'm selling my trusty Howa that is admittedly over-scoped a bit; it weighs in at about 9.5 lbs. Just picked up the new Tikka T3 Superlight that will get my Minox 1.5-8 and should come in under 7 lbs.

Since that's your big rifle and heavy hitter we would expect it to weigh more.

Weatherby MK V S.S. ULW 270 WBY 7 lbs 4 oz bare
Weatherby MK V ULW 30-06 5 lbs 11 oz bare
Sako Tecomate A-7 300 WSM 6 lbs 14 oz bare
Winchester 1895 405 WCF 8 lbs 5 oz bare

I just swapped guns around and picked up a new Sako Finnlight in 260. The 260 weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces without scope and ammo. With a 1.5-5X VX3 with alumina caps, Leupold rings, and 4 rounds it is 6 pounds 14 ounces. I hunt in the mountains, and with the brush my longest shot is 125 yards in 40 years. Really no need for anything bigger, heavier, or longer.

Whitebread might be heavy,I bet it's rock solid...ScottyO

Interesting thread. I decided to weigh a couple of my rifles, too.

My 'front-line' general-purpose rifle weighs 11 lbs unloaded. It's a Ruger Hawkeye Predator in 6.5 Creedmoor, with a big, heavy 'tactical' scope, a Latigo sling, and a cheek rest+ammo loops.

My lightest alternative is 8 lbs even. It's a Browning BLR in 243 Win with a VX-II and a sling.

BS 47.
That is one sweet Rifle ya got there...SottyO.

I hunt a lot of bean fields. My main rifle for that purpose is a Ruger Target model in 25-06AI that weighs 10 1/2 lbs with a synthetic stock and a Zeiss 4.5-14x50. It would weigh more with the original laminate stock. My backup field rifle is a custom Pre-64 in 257Wby with the same scope. With it's 27.5 inch barrel, it weighs in at 10lbs 13oz. That weight is great for settling the rifle for those longer shots.

When I'm going to be doing some walking, I have a Tikka T3 in 25-06 with a Nikon Monarch 3-9x40 up top that weighs in at 7.5 lbs. I've recently acquired a stainless Marlin XS7 7mm-08 with the same scope. It weighs one ounce more.

I don't hunt mountains, so the expense involved to shed another pound off those figures just isn't really worth it to me.

I have a lot a other rifles that are all weights in between the four listed.

I really own only relatively light for chambering rifles. The one I have killed the most game with is this 338-06, shown below empty. Though a few deer and hogs have been downed, more elk, a couple of black bear, a grizzly and nilgai have fallen.



My latest is a 270 Kimber Montana that will see elk grounds in a few weeks. I have slightly tweaked it, new pad, paint and trigger guard, and it now goes just shy of an ounce over 6# with its 6x36 Leupold.

My most used woods rifle for 50 years, a 358 M99F with a 2-7 weighs 6# 5oz.





Current favorite field rifle a 30-06 custom with a 22" octagon barrel 8# 3oz.



Lightest a 308 Kimber Montana 6# 5oz. with a 2.5-8 Conquest.

Sako85 Finnlight 308 Win VX3 2.5-8