Thread: Show me your lightweight rifle

Originally Posted by Hunty1

@Ryan_Songhurst good speed out a short barrel for the 150s. What flavor of factory? Superperformance?

Yes superformance

Greetings All,
A blast from the past. The state of the art in the olden days.
Standard T3 Lite, Tikka rings, 6x36 Leupold scope with ballistic reticle. Load 159 grain SST at 2,810 fps. Earplugs in daypack. Been here about 20 years and hardly used. Not for sale. Tiny bench rest additional. Weight about 3 kg.
Regards Grandpamac.

Greetings,
You all spotted my obvious mistake, they were 129 SST projectiles although I do have some 160 grain round noses. Hmm. and yes it was a 6.5x55 and not some new fangled thing that does the same job.
GPM

would be REALLY interesting to see the weight of that new never fired tikka 243 that was forsale a week or four back....

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
You all spotted my obvious mistake, they were 129 SST projectiles although I do have some 160 grain round noses. Hmm. and yes it was a 6.5x55 and not some new fangled thing that does the same job.
GPM

I was scratching my head thinking damn grampa got some puffy stuff in that case

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

would be REALLY interesting to see the weight of that new never fired tikka 243 that was forsale a week or four back....

4.18kg with a reasonably sized scope, mag and sling. Can trim about 360gms off that if the scope was a VX3 3.5-10

damn there are some light rigs on this thread..

this is 3.7kg as shown. its a 284 and about as lite as I want it to still be able to shoot respectable distance and spot hits on target

Originally Posted by kiwi303

damn there are some light rigs on this thread..

this is 3.7kg as shown. its a 284 and about as lite as I want it to still be able to shoot respectable distance and spot hits on target

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Yeah spotting hits with mine is not happening I recently shot a stag and then two others ran off and I though I had missed and it ran off Lucky I had it all on video

Greetings again,
The 6x36 scope (no longer listed) weighs under 300 grams. I don't have the bipod on for hunting as I can't use one in the field. A series of unfortunate events over the last year or so has kept the 6.5 in the safe but hope to rectify that in the coming months.
GPM.

Not exactly light now as it weighs 3.7kg .

Model 7 with a Remington sps weight hardy barrel at 20 inches. Remington fibreglass stock and a 2-12 vx6, dpt suppressor

Used to have a vx3 2.5-8 and the 18.5 inch standard barrel and I think 2.8 kg ish

Remington 600 .243. Proof Research Barrel

Originally Posted by kiwi303

damn there are some light rigs on this thread..

this is 3.7kg as shown. its a 284 and about as lite as I want it to still be able to shoot respectable distance and spot hits on target

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Yeah my alpine rifle is about the same weight. Longer shots you want a heavier rig for sure.
My little kimber is pretty lively and it's only a 6.5 creed. Comfortable enough to shoot still but hops about a bit.

The fugly 22
2.3kg all up.
Norinco JW15. Off centre bore by about 2mm, 'custom' foam and fiberglass lightweight stock. Painted ocean blue gloss because that's what I had that day.
Built for the role of volume rabbit shooting from a vehicle.

Rem Model 7, Manner stock Hardy barrel, Neopod, DPT & Z6 still tips the scales at 3642gr
I'm happy with the weight though as it shoots superb off hand & prone.


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Originally Posted by Mathias

Rem Model 7, Manner stock Hardy barrel, Neopod, DPT & Z6 still tips the scales at 3642gr
I'm happy with the weight though as it shoots superb off hand & prone.


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Is that the 6.5creed you did? Absolutely beautiful I have a memory it may have being sold barreled action and you did something else?