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<blockquote data-quote="Weatherby Fan" data-source="post: 1525845" data-attributes="member: 29953"><p>I have had a bunch of ultralight and lightweight rifles built and I find a scoped rifle of</p><p>6 to 6.5 lbs with a 22" barrel seems to be the most practical from a backpackers perspective.</p><p>What I want is an all Stainless rifle as Sheep hunting in Northern BC can be a very wet miserable outing.</p><p>I have had built and donate an UltraLight Rifle each year to the Wild Sheep Society of BC and usually use a Kimber Montana 84M or 84L donor rifle and add a #1 Benchmark Contour barrel, this years(2019) rifle will be a 6.5-284 built on a Kimber Montana 84L.</p><p></p><p>I use a Leupold VX3i 4.5-14x40 CDS 30mm and Talley lightweights for my examples as this adds 1lb to your build and is a great compromise in a Lightweight/Longrange scope.</p><p></p><p>this is how I breakdown my goal weights when building UL rifles</p><p></p><p>Ultra Lightweight 5-6lbs scoped</p><p>Lightweight. 6-7.5lbs scoped</p><p>Standard. 7.5-9.5 scoped</p><p></p><p>here's a Cpl pictures of my own hunting rifle, Kimber Montana 84M 6.5-284 5Lbs with no scope and 6.5lbs with the Zeiss on it, this is my everyday sheep and deer hunting rifle</p><p></p><p><a href="https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_4919%202_zpsjkib2frf.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_4919%202_zpsjkib2frf.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_4914_zpsz9vlxw5o.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_4914_zpsz9vlxw5o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>here's the 6.5 Creedmoor we donated last year at 6 Lbs scoped</p><p><a href="http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_3406_zpswl8gjx7j.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_3406_zpswl8gjx7j.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weatherby Fan, post: 1525845, member: 29953"] I have had a bunch of ultralight and lightweight rifles built and I find a scoped rifle of 6 to 6.5 lbs with a 22" barrel seems to be the most practical from a backpackers perspective. What I want is an all Stainless rifle as Sheep hunting in Northern BC can be a very wet miserable outing. I have had built and donate an UltraLight Rifle each year to the Wild Sheep Society of BC and usually use a Kimber Montana 84M or 84L donor rifle and add a #1 Benchmark Contour barrel, this years(2019) rifle will be a 6.5-284 built on a Kimber Montana 84L. I use a Leupold VX3i 4.5-14x40 CDS 30mm and Talley lightweights for my examples as this adds 1lb to your build and is a great compromise in a Lightweight/Longrange scope. this is how I breakdown my goal weights when building UL rifles Ultra Lightweight 5-6lbs scoped Lightweight. 6-7.5lbs scoped Standard. 7.5-9.5 scoped here's a Cpl pictures of my own hunting rifle, Kimber Montana 84M 6.5-284 5Lbs with no scope and 6.5lbs with the Zeiss on it, this is my everyday sheep and deer hunting rifle [URL='https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_4919%202_zpsjkib2frf.jpg.html'][IMG]https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_4919%202_zpsjkib2frf.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_4914_zpsz9vlxw5o.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_4914_zpsz9vlxw5o.jpg[/IMG][/URL] here's the 6.5 Creedmoor we donated last year at 6 Lbs scoped [URL='http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_3406_zpswl8gjx7j.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_3406_zpswl8gjx7j.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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