Nice comparison work.

For more accuracy, here's a 7mm-08 MT bare with no bases/rings unlike your 243 MT pictured. The stock sans trigger guard is exactly 24.0 oz's on this one, which is the lightest of any MT I've owned. Most are in the 25.5 oz range on average...

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“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery