Thread: New ultra lite bush build - your thoughts?

I went down this path with a bush rifle where I bought a tikka .223 and replaced the stock with a carbon fibre stock, shortened the barrel, put on a suppressor but on reflection with the cost of the rifle and carbon fibre stock I should have just bought a kimber montana in .223 at the time.

Ironically I do have a Montana now but in 7mm-08 for the kids which is extremely lightweight with or without suppressor and we happily use it out to range.

If you’re thinking .308 then you could also look at a Remington Model 7 as there great see rifles where I really liked the older, earlier models.

As for scopes, I used a Leupold 1.5-4x20 for a few years and loved it, not only the weight savings when compared to a bigger scope but I never noticed any diminishing in light transmission even though there will be but most of my hunting wasn’t right on dark where light transmission mattered. My longest shot with that scope was just over 300 mtrs and it worked fine.

I’ve also tried red dot sights but found some form of magnification even in the bush helps as a shadow, shape can quickly be confirmed as to what it is and not be misidentified.

You could also look at the Leupold 2-7 or 2.5-8 powered scopes if your after something with a bit more magnification than a 1-4