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Sub 6 pound 1000 yard rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Coyle" data-source="post: 1168252" data-attributes="member: 70559"><p>If you get the Proof Research ask them to use a Hastings Micro-cell recoil pad. The one they normally use weighs about six or seven ounces. I have their stock but replaced the pad with the light one. It took four ounces off. I don't know if I posted in this thread or another, but I used Twisted Barrel to flute mine. That took another seven ounces off. That is almost 3/4 of a pound with two things. Another thing was to replace the squeaky metal sling swivels with plastic ones that don't have a squeaky hing and the factory sling. They weighed five ounces. I went to the fabric store and purchased a 1" wide slightly lighter material, but the same kind, and installed them on the plastic sling things. My home made sling with attachments weighs one ounce. Now I reduced the weight by fifteen ounces.</p><p></p><p>If you have the facility, you can make your brake from aluminum instead of steal. I replace the three and a half ounce steel one with a once ounce aluminum. The total reduction was one pound two and a half ounces. I also switched from Burris Signature rings that weighed five ounces to the Talley lightweight which weigh two and a half ounces. That brought the weight savings to one pound five ounces.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Coyle, post: 1168252, member: 70559"] If you get the Proof Research ask them to use a Hastings Micro-cell recoil pad. The one they normally use weighs about six or seven ounces. I have their stock but replaced the pad with the light one. It took four ounces off. I don't know if I posted in this thread or another, but I used Twisted Barrel to flute mine. That took another seven ounces off. That is almost 3/4 of a pound with two things. Another thing was to replace the squeaky metal sling swivels with plastic ones that don't have a squeaky hing and the factory sling. They weighed five ounces. I went to the fabric store and purchased a 1" wide slightly lighter material, but the same kind, and installed them on the plastic sling things. My home made sling with attachments weighs one ounce. Now I reduced the weight by fifteen ounces. If you have the facility, you can make your brake from aluminum instead of steal. I replace the three and a half ounce steel one with a once ounce aluminum. The total reduction was one pound two and a half ounces. I also switched from Burris Signature rings that weighed five ounces to the Talley lightweight which weigh two and a half ounces. That brought the weight savings to one pound five ounces. [/QUOTE]
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