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Thanks for the clarification. As a lefty, I suppose a right hand chase would suit me better, too.


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Yondering ,

What would the rifle in the photograph weigh ?
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8# With a 10 rnd mag. rides in my jeep just about all the time. Rio7

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Sorry about double post , my power went off for a couple of min. Rio7

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Originally Posted by Soup
Yondering ,

What would the rifle in the photograph weigh ?
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It's a few ounces shy of 7.5 lb with an empty mag, as pictured. Right at 7.5 lb with 5-10 rounds of ammo, per my postage scale.

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8# With a 10 rnd mag. rides in my jeep just about all the time. Rio7



No offense intended, but I'm very very skeptical that rifle could weigh only 8 lb. Did you weigh it on a bathroom scale, or something more accurate?

Compare it to the rifle I posted - you have a heavier barrel, heavier handguard, thick heavy upper receiver, and a very heavy stock. That stock alone weighs 1.5 lb more than the stock on the rifle in my pic; no way your complete rifle can be only 1/2 lb heavier than mine.

Based on other rifles I have built with similar components to yours, I'd guess yours is around 10-11 lb, minimum.

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Yondering, Weighed it on bath room scales, it ain't to heavy, have carried it for over 15 years, and killed hundreds of coyotes, bobcats, and pigs, with it, my other ar is a little heavier, it's about 30 years old. compared to the M-1 I carried in the service it feels like a feather. no offense taken.

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Rio, I appreciate you not taking offense to my comment. I weighed stuff on bathroom scales for a long time as well, but quit after discovering that most of those scales are pretty unreliable for light weight objects like rifles. Most scales seem to be within 3-5 lb at best when used in that weight range. I picked up a postage scale that goes up to ~50 lb for more accurate measuring, and found that some of my previous weight "measurements" were way off.

I don't mean to imply that your rifle is too heavy, just trying to help the OP understand weights of these things. For example, if we mounted that PRS stock from your rifle onto mine, it'd put my rifle right about 9 lb, even though the rest of the parts are fairly light profile. As I've mentioned earlier in the thread, for some guys that's a perfectly reasonable weight, and it makes for a pretty solid rifle. Others may want a lighter rifle that's easier to carry.

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Yondering, I have 2 scales bathroom to 300#, and cattle scales that go to 2000# Not much lightweight stuff around here. Rio7

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