I have a love for the precision rigs. Cant say I pay attention to factory sporter options. Those pencil barrel 30-06 and 308s let you know when they fire! I killed a lot of deer with a 1980s model savage 110 in 30-06.Yea those heavy rifles are not even the same realm as an off the shelf rifle from the local sporting goods stores.
I weighed rifles today.
Heavy barrel savage axis in .243 with a wood laminated Boyd thumb hole stock and Redfield 6-24x50 30mm tube scope and a Harris light weight 25" bipod weighs in at 12 lbs.
My next heaviest is a 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser with a scope on it 10.75 lb.
The 30-06 I just cut the barrel on is 8.75 lb with scope and short bipod.
Bipod is .66 lb.
The 4" of barrel I cut off the 100ATR 30-06 weighs .26 lb.