Ultra Lightweight Backpacking Rifle Wanted

[jackelope]

Can't imagine it being too much lighter. I don't have a contender but they've got to be close. Maybe a few ounces different?? Maybe JDHasty could weight a contender frame then you could compare.

My original Contender(frame only) weighs 19.5 oz with the grip. The G2 frame weighs 23.6oz and the Encore weighs 26.2 oz. These are all without barrels and with pachmyr handgun grips on them.

[JDHasty]

Can't imagine it being too much lighter. I don't have a contender but they've got to be close. Maybe a few ounces different?? Maybe JDHasty could weight a contender frame then you could compare.

My original Contender(frame only) weighs 19.5 oz with the grip. The G2 frame weighs 23.6oz and the Encore weighs 26.2 oz. These are all without barrels and with pachmyr handgun grips on them.

So going w/a first gen Contnder knocks off .42 lb.  That is considerable considering what he is starting with.  Flute the barrel and use a VX2 Compact on it and he might shave off almost 3/4 lb from what he has.  So long as he is not hot rodding the loads I would think a first Gen Easy open would serve him well. 

I know this thread is long in the tooth, but It still keeps me amused considering it.   

When it is getting late in the chuck season I will go with the family to central WA and will take off in our truck at ~ 04:30 and shoot for a few hours at the stragglers or on colonies that are not populous enough to bothers setting up on earlier in the season and am back in camp no later than 11:00.  Since I am getting back to camp about the time the crew is still in the protracted process of getting out of bed, it serves two purposes, I get to shoot and I am not making noise waking up the wife & kids that enjoy staying up late and sleeping in.   

On these junkets I generally climb up a talus slope and sit among sage brush with my either CZ 22 Hornet or 204 or my H&R Ultra Wildcat 17 Rem and just my 8x40 binocular and my rangefinder.  Oh and my seat cushion - I will sit in one spot from sunup until ~ 9:30 or 10.  Or I hike in a few miles to a couple remote spots and sit and shoot off my Harris Bipod.  I could live with a minute of angle carbine in 17 or 22 Hornet quite well, unarguably better than with a sub half minute CZ American w/5-20 Nitrex TR2 on it in portability.  What would suck though is not having a 5-20 scope because I am frequently "slipping" a bullet betw rocks that my target is behind when up on a slope.  I really have to "thread the needle" on a lot of those shots.  I would rate the Easy Open Contender trigger right in there with a set 527 trigger.  My Ultra Wildcat has a 3-9 on it and while it is superbly accurate, Douglas Ultra-Rifled barrel and Sako A1 Action, I have been frustrated at times trying to slip one trough a slot betw rock or through a hole in a plant that I knew I could ace with more power and fine cross hairs and quarter minute dot to work with.   

FWIW, I've knocked off more than my share of coyotes too doing this.     

I have a friend who has a Hornet on a first frame and one of the stocks that the criminal from Cali made back in the 1980s.  I was waiting for that setup when he was shut down for firearms violations.  IIRC, he couldn't have a gun in possession and worked from an inert frame but when visited by the ATF someone had sent a receiver to him. 

He has a Leupold Compact 6X on it, I think.  I am still hoping to duplicate the stocks off that gun some day and replicate it.  The whole shebang is light as a feather and he cherishes it and I lust after it.  It has a snap on foreend with Schnabel to it and resembles an octagon pistol foreend only longer. The butt stock is so far and away more attractive, while being half the weight of almost anything except plastic.