My RRA Pred weighs a ton

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pyscodog

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Well, maybe not a ton but right around 11 lbs. With the exception of the Mag-Pul stock, the gun is bone stock and weighs 11 lbs. I carried it for 4 days this last week for deer/varmints, and is was just short of miserable. I really like the RRA but man it wore me out packing it around. Did the Mag-Pul add all this extra weight or what? What do all of you folks carry AR's weight. Am I just getting soft on my old age. I kinda felt like I could have carried a HB Varmint rifle and not been any worse off.

Pyscodog
 
RRA states the weight is supposed to be 8.1 lbs. Which mag-pul stock did you install? Even their UBR is only 1.56 lbs and since you replaced an A2 stock with it I don't thin it would weigh any more. Do you have any optics or optics mounts on it?
 
8.8 lbs. empty, 20" fluted SUM (Dtech), EOTech and sling.
I found that's about all I want to carry all day.

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I kinda felt like I could have carried a HB Varmint rifle and not been any worse off.



Sounds like it. It's sure a nice rifle, though. How much weight do you have without the scope/mount? That can add up to a couple pounds real quick.
 
Guess I should have stated, It has a Nikon Buckmaster 6x18 SF scope, but didn't think it weighed that much. It does have the UBR stock. Just seems like it got extremely heavy.I just weighed it again( on bathroom scales) and its dead on 11 lbs. Please don't tell me my scales are bad, my wifes on a diet and she'll kill me if I tell her the scales are off.
 
Sorry, had a brain fart, its is the PRS stock. 20" barrel, no flutes. Its the Pred Pursuit, so its the lighter weight barrel. Just weighed my Remmy 700 243 HB. 10 lbs.
 
Well...I have two "lightweight" guns for coyote hunting and both of them with optics are still not far off from yours.

I have a SBR with a 10.5" barrel, Larue 7.0 FF, Aimpoint ML2 with Larue Mount and forward grip. With a 10 round mag with 10 rounds loaded it weighs 7.64 lbs.

My other coyote gun is a RRA 16" bull barreled gun with a Bushnell Elite 3200 and 1 piece scope mount, harris bi-pod and it comes in at 10.44 with a 10 round mag loaded with 10 rounds.

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Nikon Buckmaster 6x18 SF



19.4 oz. + mount. Ouch.
EOTech 512 (mine): 11.5 oz. w/mount

PRS stock Weight, w/ Rifle Receiver Extension: 1.85 lb.
ACE ARFX stock (mine): Weight: 10.9 oz. (.68 lbs.)
 
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Sounds right to me.

Here are your numbers:

Rifle: 8.1 lbs
Stock: 1.85
Scope: 1.21

11.16 lbs.

The A2 buttstock probably weighs a bit less but not much.
 
Bushmaster 16" carbine w/ a Burris Fullfield II, empty=8 lb. 1 oz.
Rem 700 sps varmint w/ buck mstr.6-18 & Harris bipod, empty = 11 lb. 13 oz. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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I am with gripdog, I have a bushmaster shorty with 6 pos stock. No sights. Pic Rail.

With truglo 2x red dot and empty mag.

7lbs 9ozs

Dave
 
Often times guys new to Ars go with a HBAR or Varmint profile. For a calling rifle, I prefer the lightweight pencil barrel profile.

I am "fixinta" do a lightweight build here hopefully soon. When I get around to it I will post the results.
 
My heavy 24" barreled 243 WSSM weighs 10.4 pounds with scope, rings, sling, and empty mag. My 458 Socom Carbine with 16.5"heavy barrel,and Magpul CTR stock weighs right at 7.9 pounds. Barrel length, and optics add a lot, but I do not usually notice the rifle wieght. I got used to an M-14 when I was in the Marine Corps. Those were somthing like 10 lbs loaded but all the other ruck made them seem a lot heavier. The M-16 A1 was some lighter but did not really seem like so much because there was the same amountof ruck or more, seems like the number of loaded mags doubled.
 
Hey pyscodog, how bout you let me take that HEAVY gun off your hands! Just what I am looking for! I dont mind heavy just as long as it gives great performance in return!
 
T'ain't the rifle it's what you added. Now replace that scope with a Leupold 2.5-8x32 and the stock with a skeletol stock and be happy again.
 
my oly with a 16' bull bbl and freefloat weighs almost as much as my model 700 VLS. but i really dont mind toting a heavy rifle, i am a big boy. no weenies around here:D just pulling your leg. some like light rifles, other like em heavy.
 
I guess sometimes you have to suffer abit. The accuracy of this rifle is so frickin awesume that maybe a little heavy ain't so bad. Even on a bad day, this rifle is a tack driver. I guess carrying it for so long and not getting to whack something I got to thinking about the weight and not the quality. I talked to a gun shop owner in Tulsa today and he had 300 RRA's on order. He told me at minimum 150 days, could be longer. Glad I got mine when I did. I'll quit my whinning and unload some of the junk in my back-pack and keep carrying my heavy ( but oh so cool) RRA. Thanks for the comments and good hunting.

Pyscodog
 
I hear ya on the heavy AR. I had a 20" standard contour DPMS A2 with full aluminum float tube that would wear you out to carry. I fixed that. Went to a 16" M4 contour and had that turned down under the hand guard, compact scope, and JP forend. Shaved more than 2 lbs. off the orig. rifle. Much easier to pack around.
 


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