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Shootability vs. Packability. What is the optimal rifle weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Duke" data-source="post: 1498817" data-attributes="member: 35736"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Used to …</span></strong> be weight meant nothing to me. Now, pushing 70 years old, seems each year something else comes out of the backpack or get's replaced with a lighter performance model. My Les Baer Super Match bull barrel got replaced with a Proof Research carbon fiber after I had to haul the anvil around the jungle on a 4 month wildlife biology project. I put together a FALKOR 6.5cm and a Proof Research barrel went on it. Like everything else in life, it's tradeoffs and compromises. In my opinion, in a light recoiling cartridge the lighter the weapon the better. Something like the 7mm & .300 magnums, my guess would be 9lbs would be as light as I'd want so I had a decent chance of squeezing the trigger without cringing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]108589[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iron Duke, post: 1498817, member: 35736"] [B][SIZE=4]Used to …[/SIZE][/B] be weight meant nothing to me. Now, pushing 70 years old, seems each year something else comes out of the backpack or get's replaced with a lighter performance model. My Les Baer Super Match bull barrel got replaced with a Proof Research carbon fiber after I had to haul the anvil around the jungle on a 4 month wildlife biology project. I put together a FALKOR 6.5cm and a Proof Research barrel went on it. Like everything else in life, it's tradeoffs and compromises. In my opinion, in a light recoiling cartridge the lighter the weapon the better. Something like the 7mm & .300 magnums, my guess would be 9lbs would be as light as I'd want so I had a decent chance of squeezing the trigger without cringing. ;) [ATTACH=full]108589[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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