Rifle System: What is "too light"

[Taudisio]

That’s a fair bit of lop for someone who struggles to carry 5 lbs

Carrying that rifle is an absolute dream. Picture carrying a Glock in the woods with 300 yard killing capabilities.

Meeting the op’s requirements, I think a 6 pound, loaded, suppressed, scoped rifle in 6 creed (maybe 6arc) would be a do all rifle. My little 6x45 is a struggle past 350 yards.

 

[passinggas33]

Like many others have mentioned, for me, the weight to make it enjoyable to shoot is cartridge specific. For me the bigger the cartridge, the more it needs to weigh for it to be enjoyable. This is one of my favorite lightweight guns. 6 pound 2 ounce fully loaded 6ARC. Pleasure to carry, pleasure to shoot, and crazy accurate. But a 300WM in this same weight class would be miserable to shoot, especially repeatedly.

 

[TheHammer]

I like them between 7.5-8.5lbs for deer hunting. Even though I opted for a near 12lbr this year. I’m more accurate at 500-600yds in that 11-12lb range. Just depends on the day and which hunt I’m doing.

 

[MuleyFever]

It's a good point, but I wanted to leave it open to each person's choice.

Isn't a poll pretty useless if everyone is using their own criteria for voting?

I had a Kimber in 280ai and it was definitely harder to shoot accurately than my heavier rifles.

 

[handwerk]

Every BG rifle I own is between 7.25 and 8.25 lbs. which is for me the sweet spot.
Some of which are customized Kimber 84M's that I've rebarreled with heavier barrels cause the factory ones are too light for me.

 

[Thegman]

Personally, I think I've found light enough, but not sure about "too light", -for what I do-.

My Kimber 308 is sub-6lbs with scope and mounts, and I've never found it lacking for my use, so sub-6 is definitely not too light, for me.

That said, sub-4lbs rifles have been getting the nod the last couple of years and haven't yet shown to be too light either, but probably getting close...(?).