... I ended up with a huge excel sheet full of parts and weights after I got done my build. ....
How about posting that information.
... I ended up with a huge excel sheet full of parts and weights after I got done my build. ....
if you want cheap, lightweight, and accurate. grab a savage lightweight hunter. they come in at 5.5#'s bare. You can throw a titanium bolt with a carbon fiber knob on it to lighten it a little bit more. I have one with a Carbon 6 barrel and a titanium bolt handle with carbon fiber knob, talley lightweight rings, leupold vx3i 4-14x50 with 30MM tube and side focus. It comes in at 7.2lbs cause of the scope. 5.6 lbs bare rifle. shoots 1/2 moa with 143gr ELD-x. Its a 6.5 CM
Your rifle doesn't sound cheap, nor did the money you spent save any weight from its original configuration. I'm not saying you didn't have your reasons for doing what you did. Just that if light weight is the goal your money didn't really gain you anything, unless your rifle couldn't hold .5 MOA to begin with.
That puts your 6.5 CM into perspective seeing as you bought it used with the barrel and bolt handle installed. I just couldn't see how adding what basically amounts to $800 US in a barrel and bolt handle and not save weight was pertinent to the discussion of a light weight build. I have no issues with Savage rifles and shoot quite a few myself.But this build didnt cost me much i paid $1100 cdn and it came with an extra stock and bottom metal/mag, and bolt knob from a Model 10TR, i sold the stock and bottom metal for $200, then put the bolt knob on another rifle. So i paid $900 for a rifle, for me to get a carbon six barrel in canada would have cost me north of $1000. Then i put a titanium bolt handle with carbon fiber knob on it which cost me $100.
That puts your 6.5 CM into perspective seeing as you bought it used with the barrel and bolt handle installed. I just couldn't see how adding what basically amounts to $800 US in a barrel and bolt handle and not save weight was pertinent to the discussion of a light weight build. I have no issues with Savage rifles and shoot quite a few myself.