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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:03:10 PM EDT
[#1]
Could probably loose a couple oz with a modern light and mount
but 7lb 14oz unloaded 8lb 4 oz loaded with a 40 round pmag  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:08:49 PM EDT
[#2]
 8.5 as it sits . |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:21:28 PM EDT
[#3]
12.8 lbs with a full 20 and the scope covers still on.
Never have understood the complaints about weight. Uncle Otto was a BAR gunner. 1918, mag belt, +2 extra bandoleers, grenades, and his pack across Italy and Europe. He was 6' even, I've got 4" on him. John |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:23:02 PM EDT
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12-ish...
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:24:11 PM EDT
[#5]
What if my go to long gun isn't an AR?
 I think with a loaded 30 round PMag, my ACR was around 9.5-10 pounds? |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:24:14 PM EDT
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Well, I could have gone lighter on this current build - but have an aimpoint on order. While I did seriously consider going with a low mass bolt to save some weight (I am using a spare bolt right now). I have not really pushed forward with this build - as the dollar signs started spinning in my mind, defeating the purpose of a semi-disposable build. It would be real easy to blink and drop an extra $500 or $1k in efforts to save weight. Magnesium lower, light weight bcg, adjustable gas block, captive spring buffer - new furniture...
The origin of this build was I had almost all the parts lying arround to do it - so all I really needed to start with was the sling, Aimpoint and barrel. Had spare lowers, triggers, hand guards, bcg, charging handle... It currently even has a spare scope on it till the aimpoint shows up. |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:25:22 PM EDT
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6.5 lbs.
Never understood the guys lugging around 10+ pound boat anchors. Let's hang some more shit on it. First one to 20 pounds wins! Must be a fat-girl fan thing.  
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:29:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 6.5 lbs. Never understood the guys lugging around 10+ pound boat anchors. Let's hang some more shit on it. First one to 20 pounds wins! Must be a fat-girl fan thing. A lightweight magnified optic, white light, and IR laser / illuminator will get you close pretty quick. |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:33:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 6.5 lbs. Never understood the guys lugging around 10+ pound boat anchors. Let's hang some more shit on it. First one to 20 pounds wins! Must be a fat-girl fan thing. |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:34:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No clue, Not that it matters. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/20856/ksui0lkh-1422590.jpg @freefalle7 14.5s or 16s? |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:37:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 6.5 lbs. Never understood the guys lugging around 10+ pound boat anchors. Let's hang some more shit on it. First one to 20 pounds wins! Must be a fat-girl fan thing. My preference in women is the inversion of my rifle. And I’m okay with that. |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:40:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:44:21 PM EDT
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Sig 10.5” 516 with OWL, MRO on a G mount, and YHM Turbo K.... too much
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:44:25 PM EDT
[#14]
8.4 loaded 29 rounds
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Posted: 7/27/2020 7:56:38 PM EDT
[#15]
I don't think a bathroom scale would cut it but a pre ban 6530 lightweight sporter that I took off the new unfired stock assembly off and tossed on a light collapsible stock, no sling and no "heavy" bayonet lug to bog it down.
 Just feels so handy. If I wanted something heavy to "go to" I'd grab my M1A or FN FAL for more thump.  |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:00:58 PM EDT
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My general purpose AR is about 8.5 lbs with mag, my yote rifle is closer to 10. NV be heavy!
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:01:08 PM EDT
[#17]
My Service Rifle weighs 20 lbs. unloaded.
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:05:44 PM EDT
[#18]
idk probably like 12lb loaded
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:23:30 PM EDT
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The colt I took to Gonzales weighted 7lb 14oz with an acog and light (unloaded, bipod removed). Current light weight build is 7lb 1oz without light, but with a heavier optic. Betting the Aimpoint will give me another
Polymer lower weights 1.5lbs vs colt lower weighing 2:25lbs. So lower alone is 12 of the 13 oz difference so far. Without starting from scratch, the only weight left to shave off that lower is in the buffer. --- Just did some more weighing. Current scope and mount are a light 25oz (rofl). The aimpoint is listed as 12 oz. So when that comes in, will get the rifle down to 6lbs 4oz. If I go with an RMO, can knock another 8oz off that to 5lbs 12oz. If I just want to say fuck it, the light weight carbon fiber hand guard will put it down to 5lb 3oz. At some point I have to ask myself, what is light enough. --- Borrowed an Aimpoint from a 22lr - it now weights 6lb 5oz. Reluctant to do the RMO - not much battery life. As it stands now - that is not bad with virtually no functional compromises. |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:23:35 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Rugged can? Nice rifle! Yep. Thanks! Its my latest attempt to answer “if I could have only one....” |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:23:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How well does your AR work when it's dark outside? Capability adds weight. Pretty good. The weight is on my helmet, not my rifle. I've got Eotech XPS3s no magnifier on most rifles. No fat guns!  |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:31:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @freefalle7 14.5s or 16s? 14.5 with pinned warcomps |
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:36:26 PM EDT
[#23]
It's right around 8 1/2 pounds with an Aimpoint micro, light, sling and a loaded mag
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Posted: 7/27/2020 8:46:09 PM EDT
[#24]
16 pounds ;-)
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Posted: 7/27/2020 9:05:25 PM EDT
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It's funny how people dog the Steyr AUG for supposedly being heavy while most of the ARs in the thread are 8+lbs with 16" barrels, but my AUG-A1 comes in at 7.9 lbs with a built-in optic, vfg, 20" barrel, and balances right over the pistol grip. Swapping the barrel for a 16" puts it at 7.3 lbs
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Posted: 7/27/2020 9:12:36 PM EDT
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My bedside AR15 is around 7lbs.
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Posted: 7/28/2020 1:01:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Could probably loose a couple oz with a modern light and mount but 7lb 14oz unloaded 8lb 4 oz loaded with a 40 round pmag https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/454522/20200727_175524_jpg-1522018.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/454522/20200727_175537_jpg-1522019.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/454522/Untitled_png-1522020.JPG Your scale is off a loaded pmag 40 is definitely more than 6 ounces ETA 40 rounds of 5.56 weights 17.3 ounces loaded a pmag 40 is about 24 ounces |
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Posted: 7/28/2020 1:21:17 AM EDT
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My competition rifle is 16 pounds.
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Posted: 7/29/2020 1:49:46 AM EDT
[#29]
I would need to put it on the scale, but I think my first ar was about 13lbs.
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Posted: 7/29/2020 2:25:39 AM EDT
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Daniel Defense 10.3", Aimpoint T1, Modlite PLHv2, Silencerco Omega comes in at 8.1 lbs.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:42:17 PM EDT
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At some point in this thread I was thinking about lightening the buffer. By removing the weights. I was not thinking that through. While the buffer weighs are reciprocating mass-they act somewhat independently from the bolt carrier (just as the bolt is somewhat independent of the bolt carrir) They function as a dead blow hammer. Removing that mass can screw with the how the bolt functions
anyway. Going to try a lighter red dot. Also have a variable gas block on order. Low mass bolts are a bit hard to find right now. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:05:36 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: At some point in this thread I was thinking about lightening the buffer. By removing the weights. I was not thinking that through. While the buffer weighs are reciprocating mass-they act somewhat independently from the bolt carrier (just as the bolt is somewhat independent of the bolt carrir) They function as a dead blow hammer. Removing that mass can screw with the how the bolt functions anyway. Going to try a lighter red dot. Also have a variable gas block on order. Low mass bolts are a bit hard to find right now. Yeah I’d start with the stock, handguard, optics and optic mounts, then I’d move to lightweight BCG if still wasn’t light enough |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:19:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 9 lbz 3 oz, with optic, loaded mag, and light. I don't understand how you guys have 10 and 11 lb rifles.. mine has a friggin quad rail and it's not even 9.25. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:25:07 AM EDT
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Quoted: 10.2 LBS loaded here 9.2 without mag  pictures welcome!gen2 window pmag with 30 is exactly 1LB Don't know, don't care. Doesn't matter. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:29:33 AM EDT
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Wrong thread...
Everything ordered but the low mass bolt carrier and carbon fiber handguard. Sadly I am distracted by the riot threads. If I have a low mass carrier, might as well put a binary trigger on it... |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:37:06 AM EDT
[#36]
A4 with ACOG and SureFire Scout.
I don't know what it weighs but it's not going win any lightweight competitions. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:40:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No clue, Not that it matters. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/20856/ksui0lkh-1422590.jpg St. Freefall, I agree that it doesn't matter Plz bless me to become less of a fatty, as I am slowly becoming so 7 vs. 11lbs doesn't matter when one isn't a fatso |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:45:10 AM EDT
[#38]
It starts to matter when you have it hanging on a sling on your shoulder for 6hrs.
Other than that - I have other AR's. My go to is 8lbs loaded. Range toys weigh more. Right now I am just building a gun to hang on my shoulder, that should go bang if I need it to. But going bang, bang is better - right... I understand why cops like glocks, every oz, every hour adds up. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 6:53:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/6/2020 12:26:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/6/2020 12:32:00 PM EDT
[#41]
Whatever an SR15 weighs. It’s certainly far from the lightest but it’s one I’d trust my life with. My lightest rifle, meh. Don’t think I’d bring it to a gunfight, not that I’d ever be in one anyway lol.
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Posted: 8/6/2020 12:33:05 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: DD mk18 with Eotech, Surefire scout light, and surefire socom556...So 45lbs?  Add a PEQ and 3x magnifier for me.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 12:37:26 PM EDT
[#43]
16" midlength HBar, 7#14 loaded. Heavier than I would have guessed.
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Posted: 8/6/2020 12:42:16 PM EDT
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My 11.5” HBAR pistol weighs 10.7lbs with a full 30rd mag, YHM suppressor and Aimpoint PRO mounted. My 14.5” SOCOM weighs almost a pound more with the same can & 3X prism optic.
Fuckin’ rifles need to go on a diet, just like their owner... |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 1:37:47 PM EDT
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Quoted: My 11.5” HBAR pistol weighs 10.7lbs with a full 30rd mag, YHM suppressor and Aimpoint PRO mounted. My 14.5” SOCOM weighs almost a pound more with the same can & 3X prism optic. Fuckin’ rifles need to go on a diet, just like their owner... Speak for your self Porky....
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:05:58 PM EDT
[#46]
6.5 lbs w/o can
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:11:55 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Speak for your self Porky.... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My 11.5” HBAR pistol weighs 10.7lbs with a full 30rd mag, YHM suppressor and Aimpoint PRO mounted. My 14.5” SOCOM weighs almost a pound more with the same can & 3X prism optic. Fuckin’ rifles need to go on a diet, just like their owner... Speak for your self Porky.... Workin’ on it, Slick. I’m pushing 50 & changing things up while it’s still optional. The guns? Heavy ARs are the bane of my existence, but mine just shoot so damn nice. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:13:42 PM EDT
[#48]
About 20 pounds.
It's an Old School match gun. |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:18:04 PM EDT
[#49]
LWRC M6IC
LMT SOPMOD stock Eotech 553 Surefire light Tango Down stubby VFG Loaded Magpul D60 BFG single point sling 11.2# on the electronic bathroom scale, so not sure if it registers accurately at that low of a weight.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/6/2020 2:19:22 PM EDT
[#50]
~5.9 LBS iirc
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