Brian Pfleuger
Moderator Emeritus
If I just add the scope , mounts anti cant level , cheek pad and bipod . That rifle will be getting pretty close to 10lbs
You sound like you're trying to build two different guns. A gun with all those doo-dads attached isn't a hiking around gun.
I went through a similar process last year. I wanted a deer and varmint gun. The trouble is, the two don't go on the same gun. A varmint gun is a heavy stocked, bipod wearing, long, stiff barreled, heavy scoped beast while a deer gun doesn't need a bipod, heavy stock, huge scope or thick, target barrel. A good varmint gun is not a good deer gun and vise-versa.
I couldn't have both. (Neither can you.)
Your hiking around gun doesn't need all that stuff either. You've already got all that on your .308 anyway.
My Savage 11, with a 24" McGowen stainless steel fluted barrel in Shilen #2 profile, topped with a Nikon Pro Staff 3-9x scope weighs 7lb 13.6oz.
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