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Light weight mountain rifle. Help me choose chambering
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Coyle" data-source="post: 1345647" data-attributes="member: 70559"><p><a href="https://www.longrangehunting.com/members/atl5029.84273/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">atl5029</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">,</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Here's a different thought. If you can save up some money for awhile (that's what I did) and want to get a good light action, you can find an </span><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">ultralight</span></strong><span style="font-size: 15px"> Weatherby mark V </span><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">six lug</span></strong><span style="font-size: 15px"> action which is built around the .30-06. Mine weighs 26 ounces. Since it is truly a medium length action you can go with a .284 case and load the heavy bullets out long. Mine started as a .25-06. Any caliber in the </span><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">ultralight</span></strong><span style="font-size: 15px"> will work. I accidentally bought one that was not an ultralight. Fortunately the guy cooperated and allowed me to trade it for his other rifle.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I had the bolt face opened up from .473 to .500 to use 9.3X64 Bennecke brass necked down to 6.5mm with the case blown out. It now matches a .264 Win Mag volume. Out near the muzzle the metal weighs less than an ounce per inch so I used a 24" barrel ending with a Terminator T2 brake. With a Swarovski z5 5-25X52 in Talley rings the rifle weighted 5 lb 11 oz on a postal scale.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Coyle, post: 1345647, member: 70559"] [URL='https://www.longrangehunting.com/members/atl5029.84273/'][B][SIZE=4]atl5029[/SIZE][/B][/URL][B][SIZE=4],[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Here's a different thought. If you can save up some money for awhile (that's what I did) and want to get a good light action, you can find an [/SIZE][B][SIZE=4]ultralight[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4] Weatherby mark V [/SIZE][B][SIZE=4]six lug[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4] action which is built around the .30-06. Mine weighs 26 ounces. Since it is truly a medium length action you can go with a .284 case and load the heavy bullets out long. Mine started as a .25-06. Any caliber in the [/SIZE][B][SIZE=4]ultralight[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4] will work. I accidentally bought one that was not an ultralight. Fortunately the guy cooperated and allowed me to trade it for his other rifle.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]I had the bolt face opened up from .473 to .500 to use 9.3X64 Bennecke brass necked down to 6.5mm with the case blown out. It now matches a .264 Win Mag volume. Out near the muzzle the metal weighs less than an ounce per inch so I used a 24" barrel ending with a Terminator T2 brake. With a Swarovski z5 5-25X52 in Talley rings the rifle weighted 5 lb 11 oz on a postal scale.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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