I have an H-2 and think they're awfully nice. Got mine to compare with an RMR I'd mounted on one of my 500 S&W mag lever guns. However, for my intended purpose on this bolt gun I'll want something with magnification.
Second thoughts, forget the Kimber, get the Carbonlight and use the same plate as mine to mount the micro on front bridge. Would be like mine but pound lighter.
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I have an H-2 and think they're awfully nice. Got mine to compare with an RMR I'd mounted on one of my 500 S&W mag lever guns. However, for my intended purpose on this bolt gun I'll want something with magnification.
The .308 I used this year was borrowed. I do know it weighs under five pounds without scope. Going with Talleys and a 3-9X scope it would definitely be under six pounds. If you make your own 1" sling just long enough to strap across your chest so you can fool with your game animal it will add only one ounce. You can get the nylon strapping from the clothe store. I use plastic sling swivels for two reasons. One so they don't squeak and two to keep the sling light. Mine is 34 5/8" from cross screw to cross screw.
By the way I ran 155 grain Sierras. They averaged 2,775 feet per second.
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I put together this elk rifle in 1995. A Cliff LaBounty 338-06 rebore of a Walmart 270 ADL. I threw it in a Rem KS Mountain McMillan take-off. It has five elk, a grizzly and a blackie down. A few hogs and a couple of mule deer as well. It just feels dead right when shouldered.
Yup. With a Butler Creek Mountain Sling and four rounds it will go 6lbs 5oz's. I know because I've had mine configured that way in the past, though it currently wears a 2.5-8x36 CDS. Like some here, I actually use it in the mountains, and honestly can say I don't want it any lighter.
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I appreciate everyone's thoughts. As usual, "need" in this case is much less important than "want". I'll always be hunting with one of my company's recurve bows, but my hunting partner likes to carry along a rifle strapped to his (and sometimes my) backpack in case he sees something beyond bow range that he can't live without.
We bow hunt for moose every year in Alaska and given where we hunt the possibility for wolves or a huge moose out of bow range definitely exists. Hence his desire for a tag-along rifle. We've been using my 308 Blaser (I own two Blaser 308's and both shoot lights out) but all-in it's a bit heavier than either of us want to carry just because.
Agree with everyone that within reason a bit more weight makes a rifle arguably more accurate or at least easier to hold still. It just makes them harder to carry around as a "might use" backup.
This is more a quest to find the lightest 308 I can. I'd love to keep everything under six pounds all up. That's pretty limiting I know but that's my goal. Mainly just because that's what I want (as opposed to need).
Alaska? Lightweight backup Rifle? Hmmm, model 7KS in .350 mag stuffed with 225 partitions kind of defines Alaska "might need for something" rifle.
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My .308 Kimber Montana has been a solid performer for the last 11 yrs. Accurate, non-finicky, no tweaking needed. But, if looking for a rifle that would spend almost all of its time strapped to my pack as secondary or backup I'd look at the shorter Kimber Adirondack.
Those 308 Montana's seem a sweet ticket. Plenty of ass and more ammo than you can shake a stick at. All wrapped up in a little package. I'd though long and hard about one but got swooned by a 270 in the classifieds.
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