Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Rifle Weight.Are you really in shape?

Calvin 15lbs is a huge difference I don't care how good of shape one is in. Even a modest 5lbs is going to make the going easier. I would cut weight wherever I can and still get what I need done.

I try to swim 3,000 yards three times a week for a total just over 5 miles. Am I in good shape? Hell no - not even close!

The older I get the more I like light rifles, light packs and short pack outs.

It is all relative to what you are comparing your shape to. Compared to an olympic swimmer NO.
Compared to someone that sits on their azz all day eating twinkies YES.

Funny, I only see one that's whinin' about rifle weight.

Before I started PT with the recruiters I could barely walk a mile with my pack and rifle.

But after a few months I can run with my pack on and still get a six minute mile. Am I in great shape? No, most of my friends can do a even faster mile.

But I am happy that I improved since last year? Yes I am.

Someone tell those dip&hits riding carbon fiber bikes in the Tour De France that logcutter will smoke them on his Huffy.

Good point, they can't be in very good shape if they have to resort to that!!

The bikes used in the Tour aren't as light as can be had. There is 15lb min allowed. In cycling there are two types of weight the one they worry about is rotational weight. Dead weight they can get by with.

You are a lying SOB.

6min mile with a pack is damn good unless the pack is stuffed with a pillow!

Steel is for real, in bike frames!

Your right, it is like six twenty or six twenty five.

I wish I could run a flat six minute.

still more then respectable time with a pack.

Recruiters? Are you serious? Recruiters? When did they start PT?

docost99 posted some pics for me in the Savage collectors section yesterday, behind pics of the rifle is the mountain that backs up to my farm, its alot steeper than the pics allow, Im goin' on 50 yrs, and that old mountain has kept me in reasonable condition chasin' deer and piggies up, down, and across it each year.
General farm work and honey-do's play a definate part all year long as well.
Rifle and gear/pack weight have never been an issue w/ me, although I have two stocks down at Karnis' right now getting made as light as possible, for a little 7mm-08 mountain rifle, and a little Ruger UL in a 257R, these will be loaner rifles for kids and young men that may not have a hunting rifle and want to learn to hunt.

Gunner

edit: spelling

Just a quick check on rifle weight from the factory,all in 30-06 with wood without a scope/rings/bases ammunition or sling.

Remington 700 BDL 22" barrel-7.37#
Ruger M-77 Hawkeye 22" barrel- 7.50#
Weatherby Sporter 24" barrel-7.50#
Win Mod 70 Super Grade 24" barrel-8.4#

I can't see how a guy doesn't have atleast an 8.5# rifle all decked out and loaded.All these years of most of us just doing it, without thought of rifle weight makes me wonder what the big deal is about 16 ounces of weight.

Put some extra's in a Bubba Buddy and your really heavy.

Jayco

My rifle is heavier than yours is. That means I'm a better man, more in shape, have a bigger cock, make more money, am happier, will kill more elk in my lifetime and I may as well be the next "Most Interesting Man in the World".

I don't always hunt elk, but when I do, I carry a heavy rifle

But but but, just think if you did more push ups then you'd really be a Johnny Leather Legs as well as one of the cool kids...

Dober

(buy you a Dos when you get this way, that was very well said...grin)

TFF "stay thirsty my friends"

Gunner

I've killed elk with a Featherweight .243.....


I feel so inadequate.....