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Art lucky I have 'some' answers, a mate came up for a visit before I picked this one up and weighed my deer rifles with a handy digital hook scale.
So I cant give you a real total for the Nosler. As you can see it still wears the plastic barrel sleeve.I reckon that will come off and make it .25 of an ounce lighter lol. I have no way of accurately weighing the Nosler atm thus.

five rifles ranged from 8.84 lbs up to 9.43 lbs with a variety of scopes,outside of those, one .300 W M is only 7.35 lbs,its a pared down barrel lightweight wood stocked job...the heaviest is a 26" barrelled 308 NM wood stock.

The scope pictured was a NIB job that I got for a tidy price,discontinued or not it will still carry my wants for the life of the rifle.
Its funny as a 300 Sako TRG-S always seemed " a heavy solid bastard" at 9.30 lbs yet my old W 7 MM comes in at 9.13 lbs. Bugger all diff,yet feels much lighter!


None are too heavy to carry in the bush for me.

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I was just curious on the weight as I am looking and researching different weight combos for high mtn hunting...for me--from about 9000ft and up..every extra pound is noticeable after a few days hiking...so trying to keep those rifles i use for that as light but yet shootable as possible..

The Rifles Inc I took to Azerbaijan was 6 1/2 lbs all in with Zeiss 4-14 Scope..and is very accurate as well chambered in 280AI...The one coming in early next week in 6lbs 2oz without the scope but includes bases and rings...this is in 28 Nosler..so the few extra ounces may be appreciated while shooting ..still for these guns, ,my thoughts are, I carry them a heck of a lot more than I shoot them..so weight is an issue..but also need them to be dead on when the opportunity arises for the cross canyon shots that I have worked hard to get to..

Ripp

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