What’s your rifle weigh?

[dubsya]

308 rifle coming in at 8lbs

 

[Britt-dog]

NULA model 20 .284 Win. Talley light weights and Leupold VX3i 3.5-10 B & C

 

[Wyobohunter]

Exactly 7 lbs as carried

-Tikka T3 Lite Stainless 30-06
-Barrel cut to 18”
-Talley Rings
-Leupold VX-2 Ultralight 3-9x33
-Loaded magazine
-Butler Creek Mountain Rifle Sling
-Scopecoat scope cover

-180 gr Swift Scirocco II @ 2,570 fps
-Reliable 3/4” groups (2 shot)
-Groups open to around 1” on 3rd shot
-Hurts like hell to shoot

My Rem 700 .338 RUM is just as accurate but it’s very heavy at 9 lbs 12 ounces. It doesn’t kick hard but the muzzle brake makes it LOUD

 

[340bee]

Kimber Montana 7-08 with bolt knob and trigger guard replaced coming in at 5lbs 12 oz scoped.

Weatherby Accumark 340 Weatherby with a peak 44 stock thrown on at 7lbs 14 oz scoped.

 

[Wyobohunter]

That Weatherby must kick like hell (unless you have a brake on it). 340 Wby is a ballistic twin to my .338 RUM and I couldn’t hardly stand it before the brake was added.
I’m jealous of your Kimber. I would have bought one over my Tikka but at the time they didn’t make any for us backwards handed types. The Tikka works though.

 

[340bee]

The Weatherby is unbraked and definitely wakes a guy up. The Kimber was just a lucky local find.

Tikka makes a good gun. Nothing I’ve ever shot cares what brand I’m shooting.

 

[NABG Hunter]

Mine weighs Too Damn Much!

It's a Weatherby Mark V Accumark in .257 Weatherby Mag. I just weighed it a couple days ago. It weighs in at a full 10 lbs. 10 oz. with scope, rings and sling, no ammo or bipod. It's too damned heavy for a backpack hunt at my age. LOL

 

[DennL]

Tikka T3 6.8 lbs + scope

 

[340bee]

I had a moment of weakness and bought one of the Backcountry 2.0 in 300 Weatherby. Shortly after, I realized a peak 44 on my Accumark would make for just over 3oz difference in a platform that shoots lights out for a magnum cartridge.

Now I have a Backcountry 2.0 Carbon to sell.

 

[bamacpl]

I’m in the 8lb ballpark

 

[ChrisAU]

I think my Cooper 280AI has reached a setup that will last a few years finally…7lb 7oz unloaded.

 

[NilsBackstrom]

Sounds like you’re wanting a push feed, 2 position safety, but if CRF/3 position safety works for you, any of the magnum caliber Kimber Montana’s can be had for under a grand, if you shop around. After throwing another couple hundred at my .300wsm Montana, it comes in at 5.65 lbs. naked, and shoots lights out.

After a quick search on GB.

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What did you do to get it that light? I have the same rifle. Appreciate any help you are willing to give me.

 

[340bee]

For one, it looks like he has the same titanium/skeletonized bolt knob upgrade I put on mine as well as the titanium trigger guard.

 

[Geewhiz]

338 RUM. 12.8 lbs as it sits. Big and heavy but worth every oz when you get ready to shoot.

 

[AK Troutbum]

What did you do to get it that light? I have the same rifle. Appreciate any help you are willing to give me.

I cut the barrel back to 18”, exchanged the trigger guard and bolt knob for aluminum and titanium (shaved wt.), bedded the action, and added a s/s brake (added wt.). With bases/rings and scope it comes in at 6.11 lbs.

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[Dust1n]

Kimber Montana .280ai
2x7x33 Redfield Revolution
Talley LW Low Rings

5lbs 15oz

 

[Kimber7man]

6.5 PRC I screwed together. Not bedded yet.

 

[prm]

My mountain hunting rifle in its current configuration. This rifle has actually served me quite well for all my hunting. Kimber MT, 338 Fed. Trijicon Credo 3-9x40. 6 lb 5oz. It’s been lighter before, but a little heavier and longer barrel (23”), and the slightly heavier scope and mounts have it rather portly at over 6lbs for now.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Kimber mountain ascent, 300 win mag, SWFA 6x comes out to 7.9lbs.

 

[roosiebull]

After reading all of these posts, I’m starting to lean towards a rifle chambered in .270. I’d like .280AI, but availability is important to me. Got my hands on a Tikka t3x today, it’s a light gun for sure! The stock feels a little cheesy, but I’d have a lot easier time hauling it around. Thanks for the input everyone. Still comparing a few other rifles. I’m not completely sold on .270 at this point in time either. It would be nice to be shooting a caliber that doesn’t beat me up on range days though.

I had a 270 tikka and it was a great rifle… I gave it to my sis in law because she had been lugging around a heavy Mauser for a few years and that rifle is still killing stuff every year.

I would be perfectly content with that as my only rifle for everything. I will say, though it was completely fine at the range, I wouldn’t want a heavy recoil cartridge tikka, something about the tikka stock and how it fits me has more felt recoil than anything else I have shot… like I said, not a problem with a 270, but I wouldn’t like it in a 7rm or bigger (personally)

Shooting off a bipod prone, if I shot 40-50 rounds one day, I would feel it the next, and shooting the next day would be uncomfortable… that’s my baseline

I have owned a few 270’s, and the tikka was the only one like that… it was also my favorite 270