Thread: Rifle weightloss : best bang for your buck ?

Originally Posted by ebf

Haha Toby, the innocence of youth... Get to 40+, knees buggered, etc, etc.

Valid points Spook, I already have a open sight, light bush basher.

This is more about reducing weight on a medium range, tops type rifle, so in my case it is always going to have a scope

Steel is generally heavier than wood right so I guess fluting is the obvious starting point. But if you can choose between 500g loss via fluting vs 500g for carbon stock, it comes down to cost. Having said that it would not make sense to have a massively front heavy barrel in a super light stock, so yup, balance comes into it as well.

For a tops rifle I prefer the longer barrel and extra weight the rifle has to balance against the distance one is shooting at and any wind factor.
I don't use a suppressor as I don't have the heart to chop the end off the 26 inch's.