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Hit my ultralight apogee with a Kimber 84 .308 that scaled just under 6 lbs. scoped. Bumped up a notch to a Winchester 70 FW Stainless .308 with the barrel chopped to 19" and a McMillan Edge stock. It weighs an extra pound, but I'll take it. Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x in Talley LW for aiming. [img] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A...Zm7oplaDIqmn2BqIrm9ooFdyq0F=w530-h706-no[/img]
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Apogee?? Is that like a chim-panzee only bigger?
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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A Kimber Montana of some sort. 308, 280 AI, or new for next year 338 Fed. The 280 is heaviest at 7lbs 1oz.
Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.
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Kimbers seem to pop up on this list quite often. My current lightweight is a Kimber Hunter in 6.5CM. 6.5# scoped and ready to go.
A true sportsman counts his achievements in proportion to the effort involved and fairness of the sport. - S. Pope
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Colt lite rifle I sent back to Melvin in 280 AI.
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Apogee?? Is that like a chim-panzee only bigger? smaller
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Mine is a custom .280, built on a pre-'64, post-war M70 action, with 22" PacNor barrel and Bansner stock, and a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x scope. Weighs 7lb. 10 oz. with scope.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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Lone Peak Ti action, Bartlein 22” bbl., Bolliger synthetic stock. Has multiple barrels. 6.5 CM, 270, 280. All very good. NF NSX 2.5-10 scope. Weight all up, ready to go, under 7#.
Considering building a second, all same except 300 PRC.
Have disposed of everything else.
Last edited by RinB; 02/02/19.
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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Barret Fieldcraft in 30-06
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1st Gen 700 Ti
260 Rem
Gre-Tan pin
Jewell trigger
Had it for 11 years, that’s all I need and want.
Retired and loving it.
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M700 358 STA with Leupold 2.5-8x36 in Banser sheephunter stock. Weighs 7lb 6oz with sling and 3 rounds.
"There is no excellance in Archery without great labor".
Maurice Thompson 1879
Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.
Fred Bear
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What do I carry?
All that I own.
I hunt nearly 100% on foot and many times in the hills or mountains. So there is no rifle I don't carry.
In the summer if I go back-packing, and I am not hunting, I carry an M-1 Garand many times, and if I want something to go inside my pack I carry an AR15 taken apart.
2 times I carried an AK47 with a folding stock.
The ARs and the AKs don't get "babied" at all, and I can let therm bang around and not worry about them. At times that's pretty cool. I use them and carry them with the same mindset I carried rifles when I was a Marine.
If the stock is wood, I tend to try to keep it in good shape, (even my M1 Garand or my excellent condition Mosin Nagant.)
But metal or plastic gets about the same level of care of a hiking staff.
You're lucky. Here, outside of hunting season you can't carry a rifle or shotgun in the woods unless it's cased. Applies even to coyote and woodchuck hunters traveling to their hunting spot, which must be in "open fields" once the other seasons close. We can carry a sidearm, open or concealed for personal protection, and no permit is required for that, but by the letter of the law, you might get into trouble if you use that sidearm for a random poke at a legal varmint on your hike.
What fresh Hell is this?
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I carry a Winchester 94 Trapper. Great carry, 5 miles in.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde~~
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after many years in the bush and hunting mountains if i was on another back pack hunt ,from now on i will and would use just a 30-06 in my Winchester pre 64 model 70/3-10 Leupold scope,but if i had to buy a new rifle i would still just get a 30-06 but in S.S. either another Winchester ,Ruger,Browning,Savage rifle , maybe a NIghtforce scope ? 30-06 cartridge is so easy to find ammo that`s why i would take that cartridge,i also want a Harris swivel bi-pod ,bi-pods help keep rifle cleaner from dirt and really makes long shots more accurate. good luck with your choice
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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Apogee?? Is that like a chim-panzee only bigger? smaller two of them is a perigee
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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old school Winchester Featherweight (-06) w/ Talley lightweights and 6X Leupold ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/CE8YZci.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/fLly78c.jpg)
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Apogee?? Is that like a chim-panzee only bigger? smaller two of them is a perigee Hah! They just go round and round.
Mark
NRA Life Member
Anytime anyone kicks cancers azz is a good day!
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
Oh The Drama!
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Kimber Montana 6.5 CM. With a 30MM 2-10 Burris scope, it sits at 7lb 1.5oz. I can live with that. 147 ELDM. Very happy with that bullet.
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I don’t backpack hunt anymore but have “that” rifle IMO. It’s a rifles Inc 284 Win on a LH Rem SA 700 with a PGT bolt and a Wyatt magazine and 23” tube. Scoped (Leupold 6x36 LRD) it’s between 5.5 and 5.75 lbs and gives up nothing in the accuracy department.
I always find it kind of strange that some backpacker hunters shave ounces from all their carefully selected gear but then carry an 8.5 lb rifle while declaring a guy should lose some weight from his gut instead.
Well,...yeah, but....
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Just depends on what I’m doing.
Kimber Montana 308/leupold vx5 HD
Tikka t3x superlite/SWFA 6x mil/mil
Winchester extreme weather 30-06/Zeiss conquest 3-9
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