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What does your long range hunting rifle weigh?
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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2801098" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>bulltinkle, very valid points! We all have our opinions/views on what "we" perceive as "hunting"!</p><p></p><p> I grew up spending hours on foot hunting in areas were 100 yards was a long shot. I then moved to Wyoming, married a girl that loved hunting and we would often cover 5 or more miles in the mountains during a day of hunting!</p><p></p><p> Our hunting areas are a mix of wide open country to heavy timber/brush.…..all in a day's hunt! Obviously, rifle weight was of concern for carrying comfort. It was our desire to have rifles/cartridges for medium long range use…..as was the need (desire) have scopes that would work well in timber hunting!</p><p></p><p> As we are "one gun hunters"…..we made what we thought was the best compromises between weight, cartridge power, and scope selection. I didn't enter my wife's rifle weight into the poll, as she limits her shots to 500 yards….but, hers comes in at 8# 15 ounces "all up"! We're both using 3.5-10 Leupold CDS scopes, to give some improved usage on the tighter stuff…..without huge sacrifices on the longer shots! As our long shots are pretty close by the standards of most of the folks here! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2801098, member: 75451"] bulltinkle, very valid points! We all have our opinions/views on what “we” perceive as “hunting”! I grew up spending hours on foot hunting in areas were 100 yards was a long shot. I then moved to Wyoming, married a girl that loved hunting and we would often cover 5 or more miles in the mountains during a day of hunting! Our hunting areas are a mix of wide open country to heavy timber/brush.…..all in a day’s hunt! Obviously, rifle weight was of concern for carrying comfort. It was our desire to have rifles/cartridges for medium long range use…..as was the need (desire) have scopes that would work well in timber hunting! As we are “one gun hunters”…..we made what we thought was the best compromises between weight, cartridge power, and scope selection. I didn’t enter my wife’s rifle weight into the poll, as she limits her shots to 500 yards….but, hers comes in at 8# 15 ounces “all up”! We’re both using 3.5-10 Leupold CDS scopes, to give some improved usage on the tighter stuff…..without huge sacrifices on the longer shots! As our long shots are pretty close by the standards of most of the folks here! memtb [/QUOTE]
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