Who hunts with a 10lb+ rifle?

[PiperFM]

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not sure what you figured out now, but I can’t recommend the 175LRX highly enough. Made reloading incredibly easy, reviews are awesome . Dropped a Ak bull moose on the move at 400yards, about a hands worth of blood shot meat lost. Both lungs were pudding .

Are you shooting the LRX out of a true short action with the WSM? What kind of velocity are you getting?

 

[General RE LEE]

My 6 ARC Howa Mini with a 22” sporter barrel, B&C M40 stock, Banish Backcountry, Burris Veracity PH scope and 5 rounds in mag is 9.5 lbs. Allows for easy spotting of hits.

 

[waspocrew]

I’d have to weigh them, but most of my rifles are 10 lbs or more.

 

[fletch3742]

currently building a sub 9 lbs, the scope is my last issue to solve. probably a swarovski Z5 for low weight/good glass. will try it for awhile. current rifle is 11.7 and gets heavy on the arms on a long/high elevation spot/stalk. a lot of people say, don't worry about the weight, just get rid of something in the backpack... but it's the weight carrying around in the arms i'm try to reduce.

 

[danhuntingmi]

I do. I've even hunted with it in Idaho. Heavier guns are easier to shoot well whether or not they are more inherently accurate.

I get the idea around lighter rifles, but the benefit is highly exaggerated. People talk as if a rifle over 10 lbs and you'll collapse from exhaustion and heat stroke after 200 yards, writhe around on the ground, and pray for death. Yet almost everyone has more weight than that in their pack and on their belly

 

[wyosam]

I do. I've even hunted with it in Idaho. Heavier guns are easier to shoot well whether or not they are more inherently accurate.

I get the idea around lighter rifles, but the benefit is highly exaggerated. People talk as if a rifle over 10 lbs and you'll collapse from exhaustion and heat stroke after 200 yards, writhe around on the ground, and pray for death. Yet almost everyone has more weight than that in their pack and on their belly

I think it’s a bigger issue if you carry in hand a lot. Much like people who use a gun bearer probably don’t like a great big parallax knob (or windage for that matter). I can’t imagine carrying a 10 pound rifle for most hunts. Moose wouldn’t be bad, but also not much need to carry extra weight to hit roughly the broad side of a barn at 100 yards more effectively.


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[sierracharlie338]

I think 10 is the sweet spot for me as well. I have a rifle that’s right at 10 pounds and just seem to enjoy it the most

I have also hunted with a 17ish+ pound rifle and that was pretty brutal even in the Texas hill country.

 

[danhuntingmi]

I think it’s a bigger issue if you carry in hand a lot. Much like people who use a gun bearer probably don’t like a great big parallax knob (or windage for that matter). I can’t imagine carrying a 10 pound rifle for most hunts. Moose wouldn’t be bad, but also not much need to carry extra weight to hit roughly the broad side of a barn at 100 yards more effectively.


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I'm not telling anyone they need to carry a heavy rifle. Carrying a rifle for a long time in hand is more common amongst woodland still hunters,.which isn't exactly the most common tactic of the 21st century.

Regardless, it's an exaggeration to think that 2 lbs on a rifle is 20 lbs anywhere else. This is how some people talk about it.

It depends on how you hunt and how closely you are counting your ounces and pounds.

 

[mj23polaris]

12lbs, take it everywhere, almost no recoil with a gunwerks 2 port

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[Q_Sertorius]

Hunting in the Virginia mountains - which I know isn’t the same game as Way Out West - I always carried my 10.8 pound .25-06. I’d routinely carry it for 6-8 hours of still hunting. I shot the barrel out this year (the rifle was second hand with a barrel from September 1974), and the new one wasn’t ready before the season, so I had to carry something else. My CZ 527 in 6.5 Grendel was a lot handier, but it didn’t balance the same way.


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