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Lowering "RECOIL" for hunting & Shooting
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<blockquote data-quote="Damascus" data-source="post: 729067" data-attributes="member: 57878"><p>+1 - I completely agree with Bravo 4. I try to keep weight down as much as possible, since a heavy barreled, scoped, long range rifle is heavy enough on its own! To me, the .300 Win Mag is perfectly manageable, especially in a heavy barreled rifle, but with an added muzzle brake - you need to keep stock and optics weight down, especially if you are going to be lugging that thing around for any given distance. Good stocks with alloy bedding block systems are heavy as it is, so anything else I could do to shave weight, such as barrel fluting, etc, I would do.</p><p>You say "a rifle you can use anywhere"... well, here, shooting at elk 500+ yards away, an 18 pound rifle is fine... What happens when you want to come down here to western North Carolina to hunt whitetail or black bear?? Then, lugging even a 10 pound rifle up and down these mountains gets old realllllly fast..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Damascus, post: 729067, member: 57878"] +1 - I completely agree with Bravo 4. I try to keep weight down as much as possible, since a heavy barreled, scoped, long range rifle is heavy enough on its own! To me, the .300 Win Mag is perfectly manageable, especially in a heavy barreled rifle, but with an added muzzle brake - you need to keep stock and optics weight down, especially if you are going to be lugging that thing around for any given distance. Good stocks with alloy bedding block systems are heavy as it is, so anything else I could do to shave weight, such as barrel fluting, etc, I would do. You say "a rifle you can use anywhere"... well, here, shooting at elk 500+ yards away, an 18 pound rifle is fine... What happens when you want to come down here to western North Carolina to hunt whitetail or black bear?? Then, lugging even a 10 pound rifle up and down these mountains gets old realllllly fast.. [/QUOTE]
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