Light Weight Rifles: What is your lightest, handiest rifle?

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Browning BL22 in rimfire caliber
Puma '92 in 38/357 for pistol caliber
Remington model 7 in 243 for rifle caliber (followed closely by Marlin TK in 30-30)
 
My CZ 527 Carbine in 7.62x39 is the lightest, handiest rifle in my safe. It's right at 6# with a sling, loaded magazine and no optics.
 
Winchester M94 in 30-30 :) I have lighter .22's and small overall rifles, but when it comes to carry "in hand" it the old Winchester that gets the nod :)
 
My lightest rifle is my M1 carbine. My handiest rifle is my 1873 Trapdoor Springfield rifle.....chris3
 
The lightest rifle that was extremely accurate, glass bedded receiver, Timney Trigger was a model 70 Winchester 22-250 Featherweight. I think that was the name. I had a leupold Vari-X-III scope, leupold mounts and shot quite a few woodchucks with that thing. I needed money for something else, and, as usual, took a beating when I sold it. I remember the stock even had some nice knarly-looking figures in it, something you don't see every day in a mass-produced product.

I should still have that gun today. I live and learn. Within the past ten years, I resigned myself to the fact that, no matter how hard things go, financially-speaking, I won't ever trade or sell a gun again. If I have absolutely no use for the gun, that's a different story.

If I still had all the guns that I purchased then later sold, I would have quite a nice collection of 20 to 30+ guns! And, I am talking these were all guns which I developed loads for and could shoot every one quite accurately! When I think of the literal hours, no Days, that I spent working up loads for each of these guns, I am dissapointed there is nothing left to show for it, except possibly my house which we bought. So, all things are not that terrible when I look at it that way!
 
You want light and handy?

About 28" and 4 pounds.

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About 29" and 5 pounds.

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Anything with a magazine will not be truly tiny.
 
Mine was a Tompson Contender carbine in 7x30 walters. A light 4x scope and was @5lbs with a 23" tube and a great deer rifle....till the house was robbed...
 
I used to go for my AR with a 1.5X ACOG on it that came in at around 7lbs, but these days I've found myself grabbing my little Rossi .357 16" carbine lever gun. That thing is not only on the light side, but is really compact.
 
My lightest big game rifle is a customized M98 Mauser FR8 in .308 with a Leupold 1.75-6 (discontinued short model). The rifle features an 18 inch step barrel and weighs 6.5 lbs with scope.
 
Marlin 1894 in 44 mag. Even compared to my Colt 6920 it's a light, handy and powerful rifle, but a short range one. 6.5 pounds, which is a little heavier than an unloaded Colt. But who hunts with an unloaded rifle? With my Colt 'loaded up to go' with a full magazine, 4x optic, leather sling, slipoverflash hider.. it's more like 8 pounds.
 
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Not sure what it weighs, but mine is a Marlin XL7 .270 win with a Redfield Accurange 4-12x40 scope. Bipod just for the picture.

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Weighing in at just over 3lbs the lightest by 4lbs would be the Bronco .22lr but it's really not all that handy.

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The handiest rifle I own is a 7.5lb.30-06, it can handle any North American game with the right load.

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