3lb centerfire rifle?

[Spokerider]

Is there such a thing?

Why has no manufacturer embarked on producing a truly light / packable CENTERFIRE rifle?

 

[guntech]

You smoking something new?

 

[Gatehouse]

Kifaru rambling rifle?

 

[thepitchedlink]

Yup, the Rambling Rifles comes in at 3.5 I think. New Ultralight Arms offers one of their models at about 4.5lb. Break out your cheque book if you want anything under 6lbs

 

[RockChucker]

Just imagine the recoil from a 3.5 lb 300 mag!
I think a 260 rem would be snappy enough IMHO.

 

[X-fan]

you smoking something new?

lmao!

 

[Calum]

3lbs?

Eeegads!

Only in .22 LR I hope.

 

[Eagleye]

I shot a 5.5lb 300 Win Mag a few times. The recoil was hardly a maiden's caress!! I think that if one has a rifle in the 6½ lb class, it is light enough for 99% of all practical uses, including sheep hunting in vertical terrain. Regards, Eagleye.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

While weight does affect felt recoil, the design and fit of the stock is much more important to the shooter.
There are limits however, and a rifle that light, will take some taming.

 

[Gibbs505]

A' I can say is OUCH!!

 

[mike shickele]

I'd hate to be the one to point it out to you, but if 2lbs or so mean all that much to you in rifle weight, do you really belong on the mountain? If you want to make your load lighter, I would suggest loosing the same amount in body weight; you'll notice it more than the same weight in your rifle.
Mike

 

[Calum]

Now that's a fine idea.

 

[Lazy Ike]

I'd hate to be the one to point it out to you, but if 2lbs or so mean all that much to you in rifle weight, do you really belong on the mountain? If you want to make your load lighter, I would suggest loosing the same amount in body weight; you'll notice it more than the same weight in your rifle.
Mike

Loosing 2lbs of body weight will not have the same value as a 2lb lighter pack.

 

[bjjzak]

A 3-4 lb rifle? Technically possible, yes. With titanium, carbon fiber, and some fancy gunsmithing, it could be done. But I would hate to see the bill for such an adventure. It was bad enough getting my 700 rem in 308 down to the 6+lb range.

 

[tjhaile]

Sounds like something that would be deadly at both ends! Even if you could manage it offhand, how would you be able to endure shooting it off a bench to zero it?

 

[Noel]

Nuggets Kimber in 338 Federal is very light, I was impressed with how mild the recoil felt.

I agree with Ike, weight bias off your back is a huge difference from weight off your body, that will come off on it's own by the time you get to the peak anyway. The less weight in a gun the better in the mountains, for the amount of shooting done there a bit more recoil could be tolerated. So long as it is still strong enough to take some bumps and keep going.
Three pounds sounds a bit extreme. It would be a non scoped rifle would it not?

 

[blargon]

some info here on component weights...

http://www.brownprecision.com/SelectingComponents.htm

 

[rem338win]

Like Gatehouse said, Kifaru is as light as you will get. And the thing is ugly and takes a ridiculous amount of milling. No manufacturer could make anything that small if they wanted to. It would be economic suicide on their part. Trust me the 0.003% of shooters wanted something that small can't support the tooling and time.
NULA would be worth looking at.

 

[BigUglyMan]

Is 6lbs really too heavy?

 

[Calum]

Loosing 2lbs of body weight will not have the same value as a 2lb lighter pack.

That makes no sense at all...