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d500lnn;
Good evening, I trust the week's been going more than less your way and you're well.

With apologies to those here on the 'Fire who've seen this before, but possibly not with the new paint job...

It's a between the wars commercial roll marked Mauser action with a 6.5x55 Swede military surplus barrel grafted onto/into it. It's in a Wildcat Composites stock and has gone on as much of a diet as I could put a 98 on.



Here's what it scales in at. When it was a .270 I had a Featherweight contour barrel and it was 7lb on the nose, but we didn't get along so now it's a Swede.



While I've shot lighter hunting rifles, it's about as light as I personally seem to be able to do good work with. Admittedly this stock fits me better than some other lighter rifles I've tried, so that's likely a huge factor too.

Some folks are able to shoot lighter rifles without doing anything different, but I seem to have to hang onto them a bit tighter than rifles which are a few pounds heavier.

All the best.

Dwayne