For a packing-around rifle, the 700 XCR or XCR II in .375 H&H was hard to beat. Mine weighed 6 lb 12 oz bare, 7 lb 12 oz with a Leupold 3-9X40 in dual dovetail B&R. The R3 recoil pad and the flexibility of the stock soaked up a disproportionate amount of recoil. It was way more pleasant to shoot than the 2 Ruger #1 .375s I owned which were a couple pounds heavier. If mine hadn't had a fubar egg-shaped chamber, you couldn't have pried it out of my cold dead fingers.
Tom
