How do you weigh your rifle?

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Norrick

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For the sake of not trusting published specifications, and wanting an accurate number for the whole package, rifle, bases, rings, scope, and ammo, what is the best way to weigh my rifle?


I dont think my bathroom scale is accurate enough to even give me +/- 1 pound accuracy at this low in its measuring range.

Would a decent fishing scale work fine?
 
Bathroom scale, First stand on the scale by yourself, then stand on the scale with your rifle in hand, subtract the difference and that is your rifle weight.

Jim
 
I've got one for bikes that goes to 55 :eek:

The bathroom scale method kinda works, but it's not very accurate... I'd give it +/- 2 lbs on a good day
 
Yeah I kind of would like half pound or even quarter pound increments (4 oz?), I guess I'm going to go look for a fishing scale.
 
I agree with you all. I usually tare my bathroom scale with a 2.5 gallon bucket, then add equal amounts. Not so good for exact weights, but good enough for comparative weights.
 
I use a digital refrigerant scale that I use from off my work truck. I sort of just keep it in my reloading room, and if I get a job where I might need a scale I take it with. It's useful for weighing bags of brass instead of counting them also.
 
I was given some analog postal scales when a friends office upgraded to digital scales. They were going to throw them away, but I asked for them. They are really the only way to accurately weigh stuff. Bathroom scales and most fish scales aren't nearly accurate enough.
 
Weighing rifle...

Same as weighing dog, or package to send, or anything else that weighs, say, 2 to 50 lbs:

1. Step on bathroom scale, fully clothed, hands empty. Note weight. Try not to gasp.

2. Step off scale; pick up item to be weighed.

3. Step back on scale. Note increased weight.

4. Step off scale, put item down. Do the subtraction. Put scale away.

Close enough, as they say, for government work. Why would one need a more accurate weighing of a rifle? After a day in the field with it, it will gain about 25# anyhow.

If more accuracy in weighing is desired, you'll have to find a feed mill or some similar place, with a certified scale and a friendly owner.
 
I have used a couple methods. One is a balance beam scale I know to be accurate. The other method is a RCBS trigger pull scale. I have tested the trigger scale on objects of known weight and it is accurate as well.

I would not trust a bathroom scale.
 
I use a digital fish scale that lists weight out to the hundredths decimal.

It can be a little tricky to find a place on the gun to hang on the scale. If I use the trigger guard, the stock of the gun sticks up and may press against the scale itself, which could alter the exact downward pull. So I loop a bit of twine around the gun somewhere so it hangs without any interference.
 
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