Ignoring Newton's third law of motion, I built up a 7# 7mm RM on a M700 action and while it made into a terrific western mountain rifle, it is too much of a good thing for a WI. deer rifle. It took the scope hitting me in the forehead to convince me to build up a similar 7# 2 oz 7mm-08 on a MK ll action, Brown Kevlar, Shilen #1 and Zeiss scope. I was ahead of the light weight rifle thing back in the '80's and it cost bigger bucks back then. For the earlier poster questioning his #2 Shilen, in retrospect my #1's are pretty light weight and if I were to change one thing on that 7mm-08, it would be to have gone with a #2.
