Lightest rifle

[Kentucky Windage]

What’s your lightest hunting rifle setup weigh?

 

[Kentucky Windage]

 

[CatDaddy]

Not sure of the weight but it's my Marlin 70 breakdown .22 by far.....

 

[Jiffy]

Have Kimber Adirondak that is just shy of 5 lbs. It has Talleys and a 2.5x8 leupy with M1s on it. Not sure it's total weight but I forget I'm carrying it sometimes. It's a really nice little rifle and Kimber discontinued them for whatever reason.

 

[Jiffy]

 

[lunkerslayer]

Have Kimber Adirondak that is just shy for 5 lbs. It has Talleys and a 2.5x8 leupy with M1s on it. Not sure it's total weight but I forget I'm carrying it sometimes. It's a really nice little rifle and Kimber discontinued them for whatever reason.

Wow that is light especially with a scope, is that chambered in 223? I have been reading up on guns fitted with carbon fiber barrels that still weigh 5 pounds without a scope. Nice jiffy

 

[Jiffy]

Wow that is light especially with a scope, is that chambered in 223? I have been reading up on guns fitted with carbon fiber barrels that still weigh 5 pounds without a scope. Nice jiffy

It’s over 5 as it sits right there. Rifle alone is 4 lb 13 oz

 

[lunkerslayer]

It’s over 5 as it sits right there. Rifle alone is 4 lb 13 oz

That's crazy jiffy l!! What is it chambered in? If I may ask
That would be one hell of a youth gun

 

[Jiffy]

6.5 man bun

 

[870XPRS]

Not sure it's total weight but I forget I'm carrying it sometimes.

So, sometimes just out of the blue, you are walking and, "Holy shit, how did this get here?"

 

[LBrandt]

Will have to weigh my Cricket with scope. She is tiny and worked to teach my short armed wife how to use a scope and shoot. Will be giving it to a nephew when he is old enough. LB

 

[SLE]

I wish people would post caliber and scope info, and the intended range and target for hunting with the setup. It seems useless just to post a picture with a weight. A 4lbs 22LR isn't gonna do me shit out in the mountains sheep hunting, lol.

Same goes for an effective range of the rifle and the intended target. One can shoot 400-500yds on prairie dogs with a super light 223 and a 10x scope, where if your intending to reaching out accurately to 700 yds, 800 yds, or more or take bigger game it's gonna take some good glass and more hp, and that comes at a cost in the weight department.

Sorry, but asking what your lightest hunting rifle weight is useless without out the rest.

My most effective light weight hunting rifle is a Fierce Firearms Carbon CT with a 24" barrel in a 6.5 PRC topped with a Night-force NX8 4-32x50, muzzle break, carbon fiber 13"-30" Caldwell bi-pod and sling. I gotta check total weight again, but I believe it was around 10lbs ready to hunt depending on what bi-pod is attached. It's a tack driver that will send 147 ELDM's down range to a 1,000 yards and still have 1,000 ft-lbs of energy. It weighs similar to many of my other rifles yet is far more effective and at much longer ranges. To my own detriment, I really prefer and do best with a lot of zoom power in my scopes, but it costs me weight on my guns. My son can bang steel at 300-400 yds with his 7mm08 on 8x-10x power where I have it up at 16x on the same gun and shot.

 

[Jiffy]

I can't hit shit past 100 yards.

 

[SDMF]

Kimber Montana 7-08Rem w/6x42 Leupold M-1 ele turret in low talley lightweights is 6.06#. The rifle is exactly as it came from the factory except that I lightened the trigger down to about 2.5#. W/120TSX @ 3050fps I'm confident on 10" steel plates to 750. My furthest shot on a critter w/said rifle set up as-is was a broadside jogging coyote just a few yds over 400.

 

[Jiffy]

Kimber Montana 7-08Rem w/6x42 Leupold M-1 ele turret in low talley lightweights is 6.06#. The rifle is exactly as it came from the factory except that I lightened the trigger down to about 2.5#. W/120TSX @ 3050fps I'm confident on 10" steel plates to 750. My furthest shot on a critter w/said rifle set up as-is was a broadside jogging coyote just a few yds over 400.

That'll never work...

 

[SDMF]

That'll never work...

Someone needs to thread your fingers and install silencers so you can't type any more mean stuff you meanie.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Will have to weigh my Cricket with scope. She is tiny and worked to teach my short armed wife how to use a scope and shoot. Will be giving it to a nephew when he is old enough. LB

My old Hamilton # 27 weighs 2.5 #

 

[Wall-eyes]

Back 40 years dad bought me one of Melvin Forbes (Ultra Light Arms) in .284 sub 5lbs with scope. Never have had anything close as far as Sub MOA shoots jagged holes factory from him. I have had many guns since Kimber Ascent 6.5 creedmoor under 5lbs no scope, Christen Arms rIdge titanium under 5lbs no scope shot bad groups sold, Barrett Fieldcraft 260 rem 5 lbs no scope suppose to be same as Melvin Forbes had action issues sold. Kid has Nosler M48 mountain carbon 6.5 creedmoor shoots 140's lights out around 6.5lbs plus total with scope very nice gun. I do have few other customs they weight about 7.5 lbs with scope. I have older Remington model 700 titanium 280 win 6.7lbs or so really nice rifle had it worked over by smith now shoots jagged holes. About 10 years or so when Melvin bought back his company, I bought another rifle 7mm mag with scope tish under 7 easy with scope. His rifle just fits me perfect, balanced and shoot crazy accurate. Shoot all out to 500 yards easy some more some less. I have other guns little heavier shoot out to 1,000 yards alot of fun. Dad was big hunter so I got to hunt all over north America. Guns are better than money in shitty stock market and or bank never loose money and way older ones bring good price if sell them.

 

[Jiffy]

Too bad Wilson has it now. I still kick around the idea of a NULA from time to time, but they just don't offer what I want.

I suppose I could always buy another 308. hahaha

They do have some rifles in stock now though FWIW.

 

[SDMF]

Melvin Forbes (Ultra Light Arms) in 270 win sub 5lbs.

Sub 5# without scope, not with. Not even with a Leupold Ultralight 2-7 or fixed 4x will that come in under 5#.

They're fantastic rifles, honestly probably won't ever be equalled in a package that an "average income" person can save for and afford. Of the 3 Non-Melvin "copies/iterations" that have been on the market, Barrett did the best job. We'll have to see how the 4th Gen Wilson does but I don't like the addition of a hinged floor-plate nor their current choice of twist rates.