If weight is a concern a short action 700 is hard to beat, with over 70 years of longevity in one form or another it's proven to be a work horse, it allows itself well for weight reduction if one is looking for a true mountain rifle, as is out of the box one can still end up with a light handy rifle, I've built up a number of light short mags, as is the factory magazine box at 2.850 is a little short, I've never played with The Wyatt may box, but I have modified both the long and short Remington factory box's to 3.125 for the short 700 and 2.990 for the Remington model 7, once the tinkering is done I've never had a problem with feeding or ectraction, in calibers ranging from the 257 Ackley to a wildcat 7MM/325/338 WSM and all those in between, the fella with the 338 has traveled near and far Alaska to Africa and will likely be buried with that rifle, for me a 8 lb rifle is to heavy and wouldn't hunt with a gun that heavy, I've never taken a half mile shot, but I remember when 400 yards was thought to be to far, the heaviest of these rifles was 270 WSM with a 24 inch barrel and a 4 x 12 Leopold 4 rounds and 1 inch nylon sling tops out at 6 pounds 4 ozs, the rifle was not to picky it shot so well with both Barnes x and nosler accubonds 110 to 140 grain that other bullets were ignored, if I couldn't hit a coyote size critter at 600 yards with a rifle like that I'd give up hunting, so moose should not be a problem,
