How heavy is your rifle hunt ready?

[220Swifty]

Lets see now. A heavy rifle weighs 13 pounds, an average rifle weighs 10 pounds, and a light weight rifle weighs 7 pounds. And we got people whining and sniffling for the difference of about 3 pounds

If 3 extra pounds is so darn heavy for a adult male, who carries your water, bullets, lunch and your knife? When you get mud on your boots, do you have to discard them because they're too heavy?

I am pretty sure it is more a matter of preference than necessity. I have 100 lbs on you when i am naked and dry, work a physical job, and prefer a lighter rifle when i am on a hunt involving lots of miles on the bootleather. On an open country hunt when the spotting is done by truck, and i close the distance on foot, my rifle is more likely to be closer to 12 lbs. I can handle them both, but if i shave 4 lbs off my total weight load, that is 4 lbs more water i can carry, or an extra knife, or a better spotting scope, or, or, or......

Could it be that you have tiny lightweight testicles that don't weigh you down, so you can afford a heavier gun?

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

They are properly referred to as "sport nuts"

I am pretty sure it is more a matter of preference than necessity. I have 100 lbs on you when i am naked and dry, work a physical job, and prefer a lighter rifle when i am on a hunt involving lots of miles on the bootleather. On an open country hunt when the spotting is done by truck, and i close the distance on foot, my rifle is more likely to be closer to 12 lbs. I can handle them both, but if i shave 4 lbs off my total weight load, that is 4 lbs more water i can carry, or an extra knife, or a better spotting scope, or, or, or......

Could it be that you have tiny lightweight testicles that don't weigh you down, so you can afford a heavier gun?

 

[a0jc]

This thread is so...IBTL

And to be conductive, same as OP. About 10lbs.

 

[voere270]

My rifle is about 8lbs.

And to use Forrest Gump's line:

"That's all I got to say about that."

 

[Lazy Ike]

if i shave 4 lbs off my total weight load, that is 4 lbs more water i can carry, or an extra knife, or a better spotting scope, or, or, or.

If you carried a 10lbs rifle, you could just shoot all the water you need!

 

[Sun_and_Steel_77]

If you carried a 10lbs rifle, you could just shoot all the water you need!

 

[sir_springer]

Not sure of the exact weight of my Vanguard 300 WM.

All I do know is that each year (as I get older) it seems to gain about another pound or two...???

 

[mmattockx]

BSA CF-2 in 6.5x55 - 9.6lb according to my bathroom scale
Ruger 77 (older tang safety version) in .338 Win Mag - 9.4lb
Garand (with M1907 sling and custom butt cuff for extra LOP) - 10.6lb

No wonder the 6.5x55 doesn't kick, it weighs more than the .338!

Mark