Thread: Light weight carry rifle options

Originally Posted by Chkm8

I did see that Kimber you linked, my two points of contention are it’s aesthetically rough, is that a sign of a hard life? I’d be taking the sellers word for it.
My other issue is at 2.7kgs no can or scope, howa Superlite are between 2.0-2.1kgs in the same format, I do want to buy once and cry once…(to a point, not made of money haha) I just wonder if I’ll be happy with it for 6 months then be doing this dance all over again..

It is rough and certainly shows that it's been used and carried, Kimber's have a rubber like coating which wears off so it's far from durable, my one also has coating in areas worn off. I'm not sure what the Howa superlite stocks are like, hopefully they don't suffer from the same fault.

If I bought that kimber, I would strip the stock, fill in the hole with some filler, hydro dip the stock, potentially also get the barrel bead blasted, again that's all extra cost on top of the initial purchase to be factored in but if that was all done then it sure would look purdy.

I can understand your stance of wanting to buy once but as many will attest on the forum, you can't just own one rifle