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<blockquote data-quote="HSmithTX" data-source="post: 2765054" data-attributes="member: 121677"><p>I've been on the heavier is better bus for many years. I also like a rifle that is muzzle heavy, let's say you have two 11# rifles, one is pretty well balanced and feels better to carry and one is muzzle heavier by a good bit and honestly a little awkward to carry. I shoot the muzzle heavy rifle better, and I'd bet money you do too. It's like a stabilizer on a bow, you will benefit from having some weight that will counter your input into the rifle. It just settles a bit faster and it stays settled better. A suppressor on a light rifle does a really good job of showing this, when compared to a brake of relatively equal performance. A suppressor on an already muzzle heavy longer barrel rifle feels like cheating compared to a light rifle with really nice carrying balance when you're on the scope. My long range rifles weigh between 11 and 15 pounds ready to go and I have no plans whatsoever to build a light rifle. I have light rifles that I can shoot really well but I don't kid myself that they are a better tool for a long range shot from field positions, add a little buck fever and altitude and whatever else you don't get off the bench on the range and they are dramatically harder to be very precise with. If I did build light I would go as light as possible with the stock and the receiver, leave some weight in the barrel and hang a can on the end, you can get a more shootable rifle at a lighter weight and my 11# long range sorta rifle fits this criteria even though it just happened to come out that way without intentionally designing it to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSmithTX, post: 2765054, member: 121677"] I've been on the heavier is better bus for many years. I also like a rifle that is muzzle heavy, let's say you have two 11# rifles, one is pretty well balanced and feels better to carry and one is muzzle heavier by a good bit and honestly a little awkward to carry. I shoot the muzzle heavy rifle better, and I'd bet money you do too. It's like a stabilizer on a bow, you will benefit from having some weight that will counter your input into the rifle. It just settles a bit faster and it stays settled better. A suppressor on a light rifle does a really good job of showing this, when compared to a brake of relatively equal performance. A suppressor on an already muzzle heavy longer barrel rifle feels like cheating compared to a light rifle with really nice carrying balance when you're on the scope. My long range rifles weigh between 11 and 15 pounds ready to go and I have no plans whatsoever to build a light rifle. I have light rifles that I can shoot really well but I don't kid myself that they are a better tool for a long range shot from field positions, add a little buck fever and altitude and whatever else you don't get off the bench on the range and they are dramatically harder to be very precise with. If I did build light I would go as light as possible with the stock and the receiver, leave some weight in the barrel and hang a can on the end, you can get a more shootable rifle at a lighter weight and my 11# long range sorta rifle fits this criteria even though it just happened to come out that way without intentionally designing it to. [/QUOTE]
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