Show me your elk rifle and weight?

[H'n'F]

My builder sent this to me today. I can't wait to get my hands on it. The scope is 17.5 oz and is on its way. The whole rig should be under 7 lb. Slightly over with bipod. I also have an AG composite stock coming to add some weight just in case I have trouble shooting this little thing. It's sure going to be lugging the 10 and a half pound elevation MTR around that I've been using.

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[Elikini]

CA ridgeline in 300 PRC
AG composite stock
muscle brake
Just put a Zeiss V4 scope on with hawkins rings
8.1 pounds

 

[rasir_x]

I just built my first rifle to hunt with my dad but he just past away…

I recently zeroed it in at 100 yards and it’s a tack driver at 1/2 MOA on factory Match ammo. Action is a Big Horn SR3, custom Gunwerks Clymr carbon fiber stock, Hawkins Precision M5 hunter DBM bottom metal & magazines, Proof Research carbon fiber 20” sendero barrel with an Area 419 muzzle break, Hawkins Precision lightweight scope rings with built in level, Nightforce NX8 4x32x50 F1 mil-c reticle, Arisaka 45 mount with Trijicon 7.0 MOA dual illuminated RMR for moving targets. Protected by a Pelican 1720 case.

9.5# not including bipod

 

[Juan_ID]

Tikka T3x 223 chopped to 20” with a silencerco omega (to tame the recoil) axial precision stock, hawkins hybrid rings and swfa ffp 3-15. Will be shooting 77gr tmk’s around 2800fps.

 

[jayhawk]

Steyr Mannlicher in .270 Winchester:

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I’ve not weighed it but it’s not at all bad to carry. I just like the way it looks and feels. I use a fixed 6X and 130s, either Partition or TTSX.

Now that's freakin' sweet! nice to see simplicity among all these pimped out rigs.

 

[Big Bore]

It wears a reflex RDS now and fully loaded is right around 3 lbs.

 

[BKehoe05]

Pretty close to my HC LR in 280AI, except I have a Leupold VX5HD. That's a great picture!

I just bought one in 280AI but as a Speed. What loads are you having the best luck with?

 

[2Stamp]

I just bought one in 280AI but as a Speed. What loads are you having the best luck with?

145 LRX and H4831SC. Powder charge I'm still tinkering with, but its about .5 grain off book max.

 

[Hunter609]

Just finished 7 Sherman max weighs 9#13oz with 5 rounds ready to hunt

 

[NickKreutz]

My first choice elk rig is a bow, but just got this thing finished up.

Defiance Anti
22" proof 8.4t
MDT HNT 26 folder chassis
MDT metal 3 shot magnum mag.
MDT brake, probably wont come with when hunting.
Tigger tech primary bottom safety trigger
Viper HSLR scope.
7 SAUM

8 lbs exactly as it sits

 

[Anschutz]

This is my go to rifle for everything short of the big bears and bison. Winchester M70 EWSS in 270 Win. Leupold Backcountry rings and a VX3 3.5-10x40. With a Turner Saddlery All Weather sling, it comes in a scoche over 8lbs. I've only elk hunted, unsuccessfully, with a bow though.

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[Macintosh]

Some really nice rifles here. I’ll be the odd guy out and post something a little different. Hey, its the only rifle Ive actually personally shot an elk with!

Pics from a successful deer hunt a few minutes down the road last november. The gun, the prize, and the fun that ensued.

Remington 7600 carbine, 30-06, 2.5-10x scope. 8 1/3lb or so. I added a recoil pad, that makes it “custom”, right?

 

[Mschroeder40]

Christensen arms ba tactical 300prc
Nightforce nx8 4-32x50
Vortex pmr rings

 

[Shad71]

Forbes I had Melvin do a full treatment and chamber in 280ai. Shoots factory pretty well for a setup that weighs 7lbs all in but working up some test loads now to see what she will do. Leupold VX5 on top.

I also have a Tikka T3 rebored to a 35 Whelen sitting in a McMillan edge with mountain tactical accessories. VX6hd

Both great elk cartridges

 

[500000KV]

Added another one to the stable. 338AI, 11lbs with 2 in the mag. 300 grain Berger EH about 3025 fps.

 

[Gabulldog91]

My dedicated elk rifle is a 338 win mag kimber Montana in a Pendleton composite stock at 6lbs 15 Oz scoped.

It’s got the barrel trimmed to 23”, a 2.5-8x36 leupold in Talley rings and a titanium bolt knob.

I hope your wearing a mouth gaurd when you touch that thing off! Makes my teeth hurt just looking at it.

 

[coiloil37]

I hope your wearing a mouth gaurd when you touch that thing off! Makes my teeth hurt just looking at it.

In the absence of experience, that’s the weird thing about assumptions. They’re often wrong.
That kimber is easier on the shoulder then the browning Abolt 2 in .338 win it replaced and softer recoiling then the tikka m695 in .300 win mag that I owned previously. I had a Husky in .308 win that beat me MUCH harder then that kimber does as well.
There is a lot more to felt recoil then overall weight.

 

[TheHammer]

Savage 110 lightweight storm 308, vortex viper 2.5-10x44, vortex precision rings, sling, ammo sock full & mag full of barnes 168s, 7lbs 4oz , 4shot group at 200 .57” on center. I epoxy bedded and epoxied the rail mounts.

 

[deerhunter628]

W Fix 308. Leupold Mark 5 hd. Q Half Nelson silencer.

 

[TheHammer]

Savage 110high country 300wm, pillar and glass bedded, I epoxied the bases, vortex 6.5-20 x50, Talley rings, 11lbs 2oz with the griffin armament ultralight 300 can, 2 5shot 400yd groups & a 600yd 2 shot at the end of my load development with unknown munitions 200gr lrx, averaging just north of 3050fps at 800ft elevation.