Thread: Browning Blr takedown

Originally Posted by res

to be fair I would call all of those heavyish as well, personally prefer to shoot heavy guns but carry light ones lol

To be really fair the guy that told me it was heavy carries a 2.3kg single shot (2.3kg incl scope, ammo AND suppressor) so I think he would find almost all other guns "heavy". In fact the Ruger M77 was my first rifle and I sold it to him some 25 years ago and recently got it back and it was the rifle he carried everywhere. So I found it slightly funny that he gave me stick for carrying a heavy stick that weighed 1 oz less that his last stick.......

I have done nothing to make it lighter. and apart from a lighter scope and mounts, a lighter suppressor and maybe attack the lovely piece of timber on it, there is not really much I can do and it would not return much weight. But it carrys well, and recently I got the chance to use it at 300 metres on a range and was incredibly surprised.

I wanted to see what "real world" drop I would have using it as I would in the field. So while it is set up as zeroed at 100m as I carry it, I fitted a bipod and tried it at a paint bucket lid at 300. I got three shots, an inch apart and a couple inches left of centre. I did not believe it and after some ribbing from my mates at the hut who also did not believe me (the wholes in the lid "pucker" in the plastic and look smaller so they believed I had missed) I went out again and repeated it. and both times the rifle had been disassembled and reassembled. (I admit I was starting to question it myself as I did not think I was capable of that group either) But it repeated the group. SO I now have better confidence in that rifle. Also handy toknow that the pressure from the bipod moves my zero from 100mm to 300m.....