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    Quote Originally Posted by Pointer View Post
    Kimber has a short stock which sucks if you're a big fella.
    I'm called Frodo for a reason...
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    Wby MKV or Howa mountain rifle or model 7 REM or Tikka would be my pick. If you're only shooting out to 350 yrd you have plenty of good options.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudattack View Post
    I am really impressed with my Howa Alpine Mountain Rifle, for the money it is a really good package, not much really needs to be done, mount a scope and go shoot stuff.
    Comes factory cerakoted, Bansner (Legendary Arms) High Tech composite stock, 5.7lbs, factory trigger is great and fully adjustable, most (from reviews) seem to be accurate, mine sure is.

    Never used any of the others you were looking at so can't comment, sure they are good too. Moulded trigger guard and stock on the kimber hunter would put me off.
    The Howa is an attractive lightweight rifle.
    the tipping point for me was barrel length, because I wanted 6.5 Creedmoor. So the Kimber won.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daggers_187 View Post
    The Howa is an attractive lightweight rifle.
    the tipping point for me was barrel length, because I wanted 6.5 Creedmoor. So the Kimber won.
    Fair call, I went .308 as the 6.5 is too close ballistically to my 7x64, so barrel length wasn't an issue, toying with chopping it to 18ish inches and adding a DPT now.
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    My band saw is waiting for your barrel ;-) I chopped a kimber hunter at 14" this week, just to show you how mean I can be :-)!

    My pick would be 1-Kimber Montana , 2-Remington 7, 3-tikka light factory fluted but maybe changing for carbon stock if you want to get lighter, 4- howa alpine , 5- weatherby . The Winchester is a heavy action and To my view is best suited to heavy recoiling calibers like 300 wsm or bigger in the long action.
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    Have a kimber and love it, when I spoke to kimber in the USA last year regarding the hunter and its short stock they told me it was a mountain rifle, so was meant to be used with the wearer in a thick jacket ? Not much use for northlanders.
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    Tikka Superlight with one of Stugs stocks? Love mine.... it's light and accurate... would be lighter without the stupidly heavy Nightforce!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlimySquirrel View Post
    Tikka Superlight with one of Stugs stocks? Love mine.... it's light and accurate... would be lighter without the stupidly heavy Nightforce!!
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    Think it's roughly half the original stock.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlimySquirrel View Post
    Think it's roughly half the original stock.
    Was it a t3x to start with?

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    Nah, just a T3. So it's worth more than a Sako Finnlight now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlimySquirrel View Post
    Nah, just a T3. So it's worth more than a Sako Finnlight now.
    Only if @buzzman is selling said sako
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    Is the carbon stock any skinnyer though the grip area (mag well) than a standard stock?

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    @stug

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    @Timmay it is the same size as a normal T3 stock. Weight is approx 550g with a 0.5" pachmayr and about 570-600g with a limbsaver.
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