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Wondering what everybody's hunting rigs weigh as far as your heaviest rifle, all in with bipod, scope, etc.
My heaviest I ever used was just under 12 pounds , but it was a rifle I built for special conditions , my main rifle weighs just under 8 IIRC.
Cat The heaviest I have at the moment when loaded is my M1A. with a Leupold MK4 scope and no sling or mags it weighs 1o lbs. It is around 12 pounds st to go without a bipod. The heaviest rifle I have empty is a M98 in 7x61 S&H Super. It has a 26 in barrel. With a 6-18x40 Redfield, a sling and a butt cuff it weighs 10 lbs and 7 ounces. Also without a bipod.
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Once you go over 10 lb max rifle weight and under 2 lb minimum trigger pull weight, you basically have a varmint/sniper rifle competition. You're free to set up your competition however you want, but you may have some people surprised and disappointed when they register for a "hunting rifle match" and show up to see a bunch of sniper/varmint rigs, regardless of whether people hunt big game with those rigs.
You might want to have a separate category for rifles under, say, 9 or 9.25 lb and trigger pull weight over 2 lb. The vast majority of the guys who shoot in our matches up here are familiar with each other and know what to expect. Most of their guns are running around ten pounds anyway except for a couple of dedicated ELR guys, but they have hunting rigs as well. Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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my model 70 s.s. Winchester 30-06 ,sling , boot with 6-shells , 5.5 -22 x56 Nightforce ,bi-pod 10 1/2 lbs. i will take to Africa
my Ruger #1 257 Weatherby mag. ,sling ,boot with 6 shells , barrel is a heavy contour #4 - 27 inch , Nightforce 4. 5-14 x56 , weighs 11 lbs. it is my deer stand rifle mostly but have walk many miles out west with this rifle mule deer hunting with a bi -pod then it weighs more.
i prefer a heavier rifle i shoot better with it .
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Cat.... If you want to make it about shooting skill rather than the owner's (hunting?) rifle, do a round-robin type thing, where the shooters have to use everyone else's rifles ( or a number of them anyway), as well as their own. Cum. score wins. Just make sure someone doesn't do the Cosby type thing, with the "sweet spot" taped 4 inches off, up on the backboard. 
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Cat; my 6.5 PRC Win M70, Macmillan stock, 24 inch #3 profile barrel, nightforce 2-10x42 NXS on NF rail and rings, sling and 5 rounds is 9.75 pounds. It’s a walking around rifle.
I love the idea of the event you are trying to create. Please let us know how it turns out. I think it has potential to be a GREAT event.
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Pretty much all my rifles are model 70's of some sort, either pre 64 featherweights in their factory wood stocks or customized in good synthetic stocks, wearing average weight scopes they are all between 7 1/2 and 8 1/4 lbs. unloaded.
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My, what I consider my LR rifle, is my Customized Weatherby .300 Win Mag. My goal was to get a rifle that I could shoot LR and to get it under 10lbs.
Topped with my Huskemaw 5-20x50, it weights 9 lbs.6 oz. My coal was to get it under 10 lbs, which I accomplished, barely.
I have hunted with friends who's LR rifles weighed over 13 lbs. Not for me.
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My heaviest is a Ruger M77 MarkII VT in 25-06AI. That target style laminate stock and the 26 inch bull barrel add up to a lot of weight. Unloaded with a Conquest 4.5-14x50 up top, it weights 11lbs 10ozs. It gets used from my shoot house and I drive my SxS to get there.
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My “go to” hunting rifle is a Merkel K3 in 30-06. Weighs in at a tad over 6 lbs with scope. Kicks like a mule using 180gr Accubonds!
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.338-06 is 7.25lbs - Rifle, mnts, scope
7mm-08 is 6.0lbs - Rifle, mnts, scope
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Wondering what everybody's hunting rigs weigh as far as your heaviest rifle, all in with bipod, scope, etc.
My heaviest I ever used was just under 12 pounds , but it was a rifle I built for special conditions , my main rifle weighs just under 8 IIRC.
Cat The heaviest I've hunted with was around 10.5 pounds, a Ruger 77 Mk II VT model in .25-'06 with a Leupold 4.5-14X. Not far behind were a couple of Remington 700 Senderos. Those are all gone, years gone. Currently my heaviest is a scoped lever action .45-70 at about 8.5 pounds. My main hunting rifle is 5 lb 10 ounces including scope and mounts but not sling or optics. Tom
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Weatherby Vanguard 300 Wby in HS Preceision stock, VX-3 3.5-10 is a portly 10lbs.
Winchester M70 push feed, Mcmillian stock MK4 3.5-10 with a 23" Bartlein #2b is 9lb 6oz.
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Probably my Ruger M77 Hawkeye that wears a Shilen premium 35 Whelen spout at 23”. Haven’t weighed it in a minute but think it’s just un 9lbs. I don’t really sweat the weight too much. I’m either tracking deer or chasing bear hounds so a few ounces doesn’t mean a whole lot. I’m not carrying much on me when I head out, I try to travel light with just the basics. If I ever drew a sheep tag I’d buy a superlite rifle for the occasion.
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Weatherby Vanguard 300 Wby in HS Preceision stock, VX-3 3.5-10 is a portly 10lbs.
Winchester M70 push feed, Mcmillian stock MK4 3.5-10 with a 23" Bartlein #2b is 9lb 6oz. A ten pound 300 Weatherby isn’t a bad thing.
Keep your powder dry and stay frosty my friends.
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Weatherby Vanguard 300 Wby in HS Preceision stock, VX-3 3.5-10 is a portly 10lbs.
Winchester M70 push feed, Mcmillian stock MK4 3.5-10 with a 23" Bartlein #2b is 9lb 6oz. A ten pound 300 Weatherby isn’t a bad thing. Having shot a “bare bones” ( no scope, no sling) Win. Model 70 XTR in 300 Weatherby weighing under 9 pounds…..recoil wasn’t bad at all. A little math with an 8.75 pound rifle (no scope, no sling), pushing 180’s to 3150 mv, using 78.0 grains of powder……shows recoil to be less than 34 ft/lbs. Which is 5 pounds less my wife’s rifle produces! Obviously, felt recoil is subjective and heavily dependent upon stock fit and recoil pad. If it’s a rifle to be “hunter carried” all day for multiple days in rather serious terrain …..I much prefer mine @ 9 pounds or under, all up and ready to hunt. Unless the recoil is substantially greater than that of the 300 Weatherby…….9 pounds shouldn’t be an issue memtb Disclaimer: this is not a rifle/load to be used for an all day Prairie Dog shoot!
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BDL in 7mm Rem Mag 8 1/2 lbs incl scope and rings
XCRII in 375 Weatherby 7 1/2 lbs incl scope and rings
CZ550 in 500 Jeffery 12 lbs incl scope and rings
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No > 8.5 pounds ready to hunt.
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Tikka .338 winchester mag 7.75 lbs with scope and loaded
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