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Rifle loony here
I’m not going to fork over for a NULA or fieldcraft

Seems to me that leaves me two options a short light rifle like a Remington 700 mountain, howa alpine, or Remington 7 or a carbon fiber barreled rifle like a Christensen arms ridge line or savage 110 ultralite.


Was curious What your thought on What the better option is for mountain hunting is
300 yard max range

A sporter barreled 700 and a lightweight/Edge/EH/HTS/etc stock is a very nice rifle with only the cost of the stock over the rifle. You can do the same with a 700 mt rifle or M7 and end up a little lighter but I prefer the balance of the sporter weight barrel.

I would add a used Kimber Montana to your list.

Tikka t3x superlite in 7mm-08................mic drop!!
Big Ed

This.

Finding an Alpine or Fieldcraft is getting tricky, and prices are right up there. Another guy here found the Alpine I was trying to avoid, a 6.5 with both the DM and a floorplate. Was just under $900 from Whittakers. All the ones I see on GB are DM only, often with the NS scopes, and pretty high. I assume LSI will sell you a floorplate, but that’s just more jingle, and good luck selling the DM setup.

Much as it pains me, I suspect a Tikka is the easy way out.

Kimber Montana for me, the Tikka stocks and fit are clunky for me compared to Montana, YMMV

I need to check my box. Not sure the DM arrived with the rifle. Hopefully it shoots well.

Original Remington 700 KS in .280 from the late 80s.

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yeah on the 700 KS in 280

How light you want to go all up? What is the budget? NULA and Barret aren't exactly the same price range. You want to be sub $2k? $1.5K? Off the shelf? Semi-custom?

I’d cut a Montana long before I’d cut an original KS

Inexpensive- Savage lightweight hunter or storm lightweight. Should easily do 300 yards in numerous calibers.

Sensible- tikka T3 in whatever form you like.

If you’re a gambler- Kimber Hunter.

Me- cut a 700 sps ss to 20-21” in 7mm-08 and drop it into an edge or edge fill mtn rifle stock.

7lbs’ ish.....scoped.

Or 6 pounds scoped on a cut Montana.
How short and how light does OP want?

I should have bought NTO’s 700ks in 280

Just looking for something different to replace a walnut stocked 243 and 280 that I’ll shoot more often and carry further and worry less about

Had Both the tikka and Remington ideas, both would benefit from the EDGe stock (or manners )

Worried that once adding the stock (at least on the Remington ) is add a trigger tech and then a barrel and then be upside down on it, and then the next question - a used Remington 700 7 mauser or a new Remington 700 260

Tikkas are nice but something about them ......

Don’t need it today by any means just war gaming it

7# scoped and sling, balance on front action screw

Which scope? That's gonna make a BIG difference.


Okie John

Don't know how light you want to go. This is a Montana 7-08 (uncut) w/ VX2 2-7x33 and 4 rounds in mag, no sling, 6# 0.7oz. Sorry for the photo quality.

I don't own it anymore but for a long time I had a Model Seven in .308 with a Leupold 6x36 in Talleys. Edge stock. It was right at 6lbs scoped and shot really well.