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Making Lightweight Hunting Rifles Behave
By Wayne Van Zwoll If your bullets wander about the target, and game inexplicably runs off, maybe you lack ounces. The lighter your burden, the more you enjoy walking, climbing, hunting. Many early bolt-action hunting rifles weighed over 8 pounds. In the 1950s Winchester introduced its Featherweight Model 70 at 6 ¾ pounds. Now 6-pound…