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My .308 Win Kimber Montana w/ Leupold 2.5-8x36 CDS, Uncle Mikes Mountain Sling, and 4 rounds - 6lbs 7oz's:

Thanks...............yeah, I love it too; actually I love all 3 of 'em.

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Decided to find out, Mr. Zipper. My 1903 is 6lb-11.6 lb.....more than I would have guessed. To be honest, I think M-Ss handle so well, you just think they're lighter than they really are.






I put the 4X Hensoldt scope in claw mounts back on it and the weight went up exactly 1 lb.







Someone asked about M600s weight. It is a Mohawk so it has the heavy barrel, not the slim one of the original M600, and, it has the replacement bottom metal. It is basically the same weight as the scoped Mannlicher-Shoenauer.

Thank you Brad. As always you made your opinion known. Can you give us two examples of how you’ve helped anyone kill a deer or put up a deer in the last year or two?

Fieldcraft 6.5 CM/SS 3-9 - don't have an exact weight but should be around 6.5 lbs all up...

Kimber Montana .223 w/Superchicken 2.5-10 UL. No idea what it weighs, but it feels like a toy.

Funny thing is that the .223 montanas are probably the heaviest ones!!! All that extra material in the bore with that .224 hole down the middle

I modified my Fieldcraft to get it to come in a hair over 4 pounds.

SWFA Ultra light scope.

Aluminum low rings. No rail, no loctite, doesn't need it, just ads weight.

Remove the sling studs.

It's the shorter threaded barrel, so lose the thread protector.

Clean it real well, don't use a lot of lube. Lube ads weight.

And mostly, I put this ammo box under the stock.

I've found the taller the ammo box the better the weight savings

I just missed 7 lbs, but it will do. Could probably get there with a lighter sling and swivels...if I wanted.

This is just a Gander 700 Mtn Rifle 7-08, Talley Ltwts, VX3 2.5-8 w/M1 elev. Nothing special. A Titanium would get there. And I'm guessing my Fieldcrafts would easily get there with lighter scopes and mounts than what I'm using.

Sheeter!

LOL! Had me going there for a minute!!

I was about to say, you gotta lose over a pound from a factory fieldcraft to get to 4#

good show cas6969

That's how ultra light rifles work, trade offs and sacrifices. It's light, but harder to shoot. Plus now I have to carry that stupid ammo box with me in the woods.

A cardboard ammo box would save even more weight. I have some you can have at a good price (for me).

I bought my Remington 700 Titanium .308 before I joined the Campfire and learned "the rules" for making them lighter, but I never had a reason to change anything. Now that 200,000 acres of my woods have been charred over the past 3 years, what I now call the "BurnTree" pattern stock works great.



It's a real pig by some of your standards, and I almost didn't qualify to play.

"...a rifle's weight should be..." Who the [bleep] died and left you the boss?

I'd much rather know what the actual "ultralight -rifle-" weighs, bare. Far too many variables and choices come in to play when we get to setting up a rifle further for personal use. As for the lightweight -rifle- itself, a rifle set-up that makes 6 pounds with a 16 oz scope, 4 oz rings rings, etc., etc. is more interesting than 5 pound 15 oz rifle set-up with a 2 oz red dot. Just tell me how much the rifle weighs, I'm going to set it up differently than the next guy anyway...

How about a NULA 6.5 creedmoor with Bartlein. Shoots lights out with 130VLD hunters. Tough to beat this one. Dan Coffin did the bartlein work.