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I have a little Heym 98 sporter that goes a bit over six pounds with its very light walnut stock. Might not have the panache that comes from a painful conversion, but it can be anything from a .32/20 to very nearly a .30/06 with a little loading creativity, not to mention sabots and chamber inserts. It weighs at least a pound less than the 336 I played with a bit not long ago.

Stevens 325- First edition ejector is funky

You don't mention your present chambering, but you're speaking of a wide and divergent variety of chamberings. 32-20 Winchester as a small diameter rimmed cartridge to '06 larger diameter and rimless of course! Perhaps I'm profoundly misunderstanding your question & 'my bad'. Such range of cartridges with considerable physical properties dimension variations.

Perhaps to reveal your present chambering and conjure the most similarly 'spec'd cartridge fitting your desires. From there!
Just my take.
Best!
John

Considering that a 45-70 can be loaded from a trap door load level to a 458 Win Mag load level, pretty much any load you want, in a Siamese Mauser. Some folks thnk the Siamese is the first Mauser, however, it is in fact the last major modification of a military production 98 Mauser, there is no reason at all to try and make it less than it is capable of being, if you can simply load the 45-70 down.
By the way, a good Siamese action for conversion in the last few years has gone way up in value as folks realize what they really are.

Forgot to mention it’s a .308….

I have one in 30-40 Krag.

Any body think of the pattern 14 enfield?