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That’s awesome!

I can confirm that carrying my 5¾-lb Kimber -- with the reflex sight on it, loaded, with sling -- was a lot easier than carrying the 9-lb Winchester M71 this last week.

-Chris

I have 308 Montana rebarreled from 338 that shoots reduced recoil TTSX into one ragged holes 🕳. Hard to pass it up when I go out!

Some others.
250AI Kampfled I was looking at the build sheet for this one yesterday....6-week wait start to finish a LONG time ago

3006 Subalpine sans rings

243 Adirondack

708 Ti - sold here

6CM Barrett

It pitched up yesterday after a 6 month wait. 35Whelen Kimber Hunter with a 22” barrel. 2.5kg or 5.5lbs bare. Leica 1-6 going on top.

I apparently know how to make an ultralight rifle heavy. This is a little titanium action 6.5 SAUM built by Dallas Lane.
Specs are as follows:
Rifle weighs 5 pounds 6 ounces
Mac Bros Evo titanium action
Hawkins 30mm hybrid pow rings
MCS ultralite classic radius pillar bedded
Bart #2b spiral 8 twist 23" threaded 1/2-28 with cap
APA Micro bastard brake nitride coated
APA dbm w/ 3 round mag.

But, you throw an NXS Compact and three rounds into the mag and it jumps up over 7lbs quick. Really don't care as it proved an absolute killing stick this year on my sheep, plus back up on wife's griz and ram.

Here is one of the limited run 22" threaded Fieldcrafts that I again weigh down with too-heavy of a scope which is a Leupold 4.5-14 with 30mm tube, which shows the amount of weight savings compared to the next rifle which is another Fieldcraft but 21" unthreaded in 7/08 with a petite 2.5-8x Leupold. (The 7/08 now resides with another forum member in Anchorage). And a 280ai Mountain Ascent with another 2.5-8x Leupold--the misses used it this year to harvest an interior griz and dall ram in Tok. I originally picked it up on a whim as a back-up plan if a build I had in the works didn't make it in time. It did, so it sat in a safe for a couple years till I pulled it out for her to try and see if she wanted to use one of the fieldcrafts or it for her hunt. She was shooting ragged holes with it and factory Federal premium ammo with the 168 Bergers. After playing with it this season and seeing how well she shot it I am overly impressed and would like to find a little Adirondak in 7/08 for our daughter.

Last for now I'll throw in here as ultralight by magnum standards. Again could be easily 1/2 pound lighter with different scope. Its one of the old Remington Custom Shop Alaska Wilderness Rifles in 338WM that I had the teflon stripped of the stainless barreled action and gent up in Wasilla cerekoted and hydrodipped the McMillan stock. Karl here on the hide fluted and skeletonized the bolt. This gun has been amazing and killed all sorts of critters up here as my main packing rifle till I started chasing sheep a few years ago. Even after a few other customs built for moose, my father in law would still carry it--basically every hunt we do, if I'm not packing it, he wants to. Sucks up the recoil for being light and just dead-nutz accurate. It put the complete smack on a big AK Pen brownie this May. He was sleeping on a moose kill, lifted his head to look off a different direction, slipped one in the perfect spot letting his head fall--never even moved a paw. Threw another into frontal into his brisket for good measure, but he was out. I know the 6.5's are taking the hunting world by storm, as the 7's did before. Hard to argue against the superior BC bullets, and the damage the 6.5's will inflect--but still a lot of love for big heavies in my heart.

My Kimber Montana with Ascent stock. I switch between a Zeiss Victory 2.5-10x42 ASV+ and a Aimpoint Micro. Hunting for reindeer I also use a bipod.

Fully equiped with Zeiss, silencer and bipod is 7 lb (3.2 kg). With Aimpoint and silencer 5.7 lb (2.6 kg)

To really understand and appreciate a lightweight rifle you need to own one. I carry more than I shoot on my hunts.

I feel your pain, I just got a few short weekends in bow season before my area got eaten up by the Mullen fire..

old school lightweight

I like that! Some hunts I wish I had only irons. Never seem to shoot far anyway.

Christensen ti ridgeline 6.5 PRC. Proof stock. Tally medium and vx6 3-18 50 firedot. 6.625 lbs. or 6 lbs 10oz.

Two 350 Rem Mags, 308 Win, 243 and 6 Rem.

I have a lot of them. I have three Kimber 84s, three featherweights, and a barrett fieldcraft in 30/06 as well. I just don't have time to get pictures of them.

I don’t know how to post photos.

Kimber adirondack
Titanium bolt handle
Rem ADL trigger guard
Talley lightweight one-piece rings/bases
Butler creek scope caps
Swaro z3 3-10x42

5lb3.5oz
(4lb1.7oz bare rifle)

Nashville PM me your E-mail and I’ll send you one and post the pics for you if you want. That sounds like a winner!

What caliber is your adirondack? Always wanted to find one in 300 BLK

PM sent

Cal is .308

I’d like to shave some more weight off yet, get under 5lbs loaded.

Seems odd. Kimber says 4-lbs, 13-oz for a .308, and my Adirondack in 6.5 Cr starts at 4-lbs, 12.4-oz bare. Wouldn't have expected the titanium bolt handle to make almost a ¾-lb difference...




I'd have guessed that scope weighs maybe 1-lb?

-Chris

so I'm posting his photos... He might have forgotten to mention the stock work =]

Ah.

-Chris

Now THAT is an ultralight rifle!