Ideas for lightweight rem 700 300wm

Longleaf

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20oz stock

Hawkins bottom metal

Cut the barrel down or get a 22" carbon barrel.
 

PRC_GUY

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Proof serendo light 26 in 1-10 twisted
Stocky stock sport
Leupold VX6
Hawkins BDL and Rings

My 300 WM is weighed right st 8.1 lbs with sling and bipod
 

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If you buy a carbon barrel buy a Bartlien sendero, its the #13. and a carbon fiber stock. I know someone with 6 of their carbon barrels and everyone of them is very accurate.
 

Seeknelk

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Man looked at LRIs fluting and they have some great looking patterns. Does the claim of no accuracy decrease really hold up with some of the really deep aggressive patterns?
A lot of those fluting patterns are just silly unless you love the looks and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But when you have isolated diamonds and islands of metal...it just dead weight at that point, you lost any stiffening benefits of that metal. May as well turn it down to a pencil barrel.
A #2 bartlein stainless no fluting, in an AG composites stock would breath fresh life into that old 700 for sure. A quality lightweight contour barrel will shoot with the heavyweights. I had a 3b bartlein in a McMillan edge Game hunter. Loved that stock also, but the 3b contour is just too heavy for my wimpy ass. And made the rifle way too front heavy.
 

excaliber

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I went the same route with my Rem 700 300WM. The gun shot good but not good enough for me and that thin fluted barrel got hot after three shots and needed to be cooled down for a while before proceeding.

I had the action trued, Bartlein #3 5R 26" barrel and a McMillan Hunter stock. With the Zeiss V4 6-24 x50 it's pushing just over 9.5 lbs.

The scope weighs 24.4 oz so the rifle weigh is around 8 lbs bare. The gun is the most accurate rifle I've ever shot and It's a keeper. Rem 700 actions can make nice semi custom rifles.

To have one built much lighter than that could be tough.
 

RGARNER

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Definitely a lot of weight can be dropped in optics. I went from a 30oz. Nightforce to a 19oz. Leupold VX5hd. 3/4 pound drop without sacrificing anything in my opinion.
 
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