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I have searching for a rifle with these specs for awhile and have into a dead end. I am hoping the forum can give me some ideas.
Budget, 1k or less.
Cal. 3006
24 inch barrel.
Synthetic stock
Protective finish, optional but would be nice!
Last and a real Hens tooth! Under 7 lbs, unscoped.

Looking at whats available in a factory production rifle not much meets the criteria other then a Weatherby back country. 6.75 lbs and that's about it. Everything else is either to heavy and or 22 inch barrel. I have no issue with the Weatherby but have never handled one.
My goal is a rifle at about 8lbs scoped. I want a hunting rifle that will not be a beast to carry.

Have I missed anything? Opinions are welcome! Thanks in advance and appy new year to all of you! , Blue

KIMBER has them for $1046, with a 22 inch barrel.

Colt light rifle or Forbes..

Obviously finding a 24” barrel 30-06 really cuts your options down. I think if it were me I’d get a 22” barrel if it had to be in 30-06 and at that point in a lightweight rifle is when something like a .308 in a short action to cut some more weight starts make a whole lot of sense. Or a 300 mag with 24” barrel and download it some as desired but you’d still have the options of standard power loads and a lot more choices in rifles.

I have a Kimber with 24" barrel and it's under 6 pounds grat rifle

Sabatti 870 Rover/Inox checks all these boxes, except barrel length......it's 22". With a Leupold 6x42 on it, in QR warne rings, and 2 piece 700 bases, it weights 8.75 lbs empty. A 6x36 scope would shave almost 4 ounces off it, aluminum rings and bases even more. Remove the sights for another couple ounces.

These guns have some nice features (700 2 lug bolt style with oversized extractor, right hand palm swell, very stiff reinforced stock, floated barrel, very crisp trigger that is easily adjusted, iron sights).

I use one for whitetails and it shoots factory 180 grain accubonds into an inch @ 100 yds. Iron sights are sighted for 220 grain federals. Great little rifle, that's easy to carry. But it looks to have been discontinued, as far as I can tell.

Andy3

I think the Sauer 100 pretty well checks the boxes...and you can find them.
Oops, sorry...22" bbl.

I think the Wby sounds like a great rifle. I didn't know they made a VG that lite. I love my VGs and MkVs. I'm picking up an Accuguard in 6.5-300 from my FFL tomorrow.

A couple of months ago, you could have bought a minty CLR for $600, had it CeraKoted and had maybe 20% left over from your $1K. But now? Who knows what the market will do?

TC venture 2
https://www.tcarms.com/firearms/bolt-action-rifles/venture/venture-ii

What can you do with a 24 inch barrel that you can't do with a 22 inch? Maybe 100 fps or so in velocity but is that a game changer?

A guy who I know has a Venture 2 in 6.5 CM that I've held and it seemed like a toad to me. The combination of a heavy barrel contour and a light stock made it about as unbalanced forward as the short barreled Remington 7s are unbalanced to the rear. Just my opinion, as with many things, what I consider to be a negative attribute might not bother the next guy in line.

Rob a Fieldcraft owner.

I have the first gen. venture and it’s a tack driver.
I haven’t held the new generation but Not too many 06 with 24”, hence why I posted.

Bergara B14 Hunter is avail in a 24 inch barrel. Should meet your requirements. But I believe it's a sketch over 7lbs.

Got one for my son a few weeks ago.

Gun broker listing...

My NULA M24 meets your bill of requirements, except for the cost!...

Going light costs money too...

jim

I believe my tikka is a 23.5 inch barrel.......weighs 6.2 lbs.

If you can find a Wby Vanguard Backcountry it will be cerakoted with a 24” barrel and will weigh 6.75 lbs. The wilderness is uncoated and pretty much the same rifle with fluted barrel. Wilderness will typically run around 775-850 and the backcountry will be right around $1K. Problem is that Weatherby has discontinued both. Best of luck finding them. Check Gun Deals ( https://gun.deals/search/apachesolr_search/747115423156 )

They will usually have a live online inventory around the country of who has them in stock.

Thanks for the many ideas. I do have a few options but they come down to price or weight. Kimber over my price ceiling, TC over my weight my ceiling. The idea of moving up to 300 win/wsm and loading down a bit solves the barrel length problem . But would push the rifle base weight up. I do not want a light weight 300 win. The Weatherby is the closest to meeting all of my specs but, there seems to be a definite love them or hate them vibe. The Howa action being the primary angst, second seems to be accuracy. Even with their MOA guarantee. I am still not leery of it for those reasons. I do need to put one in my hands.

The Weatherby Vanguard Badlands meets all your requirements for size, price, coating, etc....just not weight.