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This. Heavy scope stock and I'm betting it's got one of them looong shanks.

Stock is a HS precision (mag contour) skim bedded.
Scope is a SS 3x15x44
Rings are Warren in 30mm
EGW Alu. rail
factory bottom metal.

Gun was done up by Micky Coleman and shoots great .5 at 100yds.

Guess I will pull the stock and weight is. really can't change scope.

Clos, the scope you have is pretty heavy. If you lite weight the rest of the rifle yet leave weight up top the imbalance will pronounce itself rather harshly. Trust me bud....been there done all that.

Then I did myself a really big favor and started reading a lot on the forum about " lite done right " and saved myself a lot of money spent trying to learn what I inevitably discovered I didn't want.

All I'm saying is if you want lite you want " lite done right "

Realistically you need to change just about every part of you're rifle to get where you want to be.

I damned need parted out my heavy 280AI but instead I put it in the back of the closet for about a year. When I pulled it back out and started playing around with it again I never would have imagined how glad I was not to have parted out this fine shooting rifle all for pennies on the dollar.

It really is a fine rifle and it sure sounds like yours is to.

Shod

A couple of years ago I started swapping all my scopes out to Mil/Mil. I could switch it out to the 3 by 9 SS. not sure how much weight I can save there? I will have to weigh the stock also.

I've got a SS 10X42 on my 280 AI. I use the rifle strictly for hunting eastern Montana where 400 to 500 yds shots are an everyday occurance and there's not much for hiking up and down steep mountains involved.

The SS scopes are accurate and touph and have there place, just not on anything you want to have that doesn't weigh much as they are beastly heavy.

My lite rifles pack leupolds that weigh around 11 oz not all most 2 lbs like the SS scopes. One rifle has a Zeiss Terra 3-9X42 that weighs only 13 oz. The Zeiss work very well on low recoiling rifles but I don't recommend it on magnums as the eye relief is less than the leupold 2-7X33.

I wouldn't be afraid to put the Zeiss Terra on my 280AI if my 280AI was around 8 lbs including the scope.

I'm getting ready to put a Zeiss Terra on a Tikka T3 lite 270 that will weigh around 7 1/2 lbs ready to hunt. Not the lightest of liteweight rifles but a dream to pack up a steep mountain compared to my almost 11 lb 280 AI.

Shod

thanks guys for all the responses and information