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Posted: 7/18/2002 3:02:32 PM EDT
| Just curious because my girlfriend was saying how much heavier my current AR with a 24" stainless bull barrel is compared to the collapsable stock 16" barrel I used to have. So I weighed myself without the gun (boy am I fat) and then with the gun. The gun as it sits right now without a scope OR mount weighs 10.5 pounds! Is this heavy or about right for the configuration? |
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Heaviest is my custom AR15 I use for squirrel shooting, weighs in at about 15 pounds unloaded. home.bak.rr.com/varmintcong/jpar.html When I get my AR10 into an accurized target form it will probably outweigh my custom AR15. |
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The thing that is funny is that it nearly fills a 56 inch long Blackhawk sniper rifle case, it leaves about 6 inches of space at the front of the case. Rifle measures between 48-50 inches long depending on how I have the buttstock adjusted. I do carry it around quite a bit, literally cause I don't have a sling on it. When I'm walking around I set the butt into my hip and carry it muzzle high, it's just a "make my day" sorta thing. Here's a bit of a joke picture for you when I recently put on all my "Tactical Fag" gear to post in another forum, I'm holding my squirrel rifle pretty much in the only way that is comfortable. home.bak.rr.com/varmintcong/squirrelgun2.jpg But typically I like to hike to one good spot that over looks a large wide open area, then I just setup shop and lay waste to as many squirrels as possible. The rifle is good enough for 500+ yards accuracy wise, at the local range I've hit Ca. Ground Squirrels out to 400 yards and very nearly hit them at 500-550+ yards by putting bullets under their bellies and kicking dirt in their faces. Good news is the gun is almost entirely recoiless, only a little bit of buffer "slap" manages to bounce the crosshairs off target. The buffer slap appears to bounce the crosshairs off target by only about 1/4 inch at 100 yards even when viewing at 20x magnification. |
This is the beefy bastage that everyone SWEARS must weigh about 15 lbs. It just looks that heavy. Actually it weighs in at just under 8 pounds. Next in line, weighing in at just a hair over 6 pounds is the postban Bushmaster V-Match Carbine.  Next skinniest is the most plane jane of the bunch. Weighing in at about 5 and a quarter pounds.  Last one I tried to build with light weight in mind while still having everything I wanted. Without the Reflex or Surefire, it weighs in at under 4.5 pounds. With the accessories, it is just barely 5 pounds. 
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