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Originally Posted by aigel
I would not buy a Varmint rifle for hunting big game. You are talking 8.75 lbs without a scope.
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Big time. Why lug a varmint rifle around? Heavy to carry, heavy to hold up and shoot if your in an odd position.
I have a standard Weatherby Vanguard .30-06, with a Burris 3x9 Full Field II scope. The rig has performed flawlessly in field, and the range. Unless I get into high desert big game hunting in the West (not likely), its the last hunting gun I'm buying.
People spend so much time thinking about the gun. What the person behind the gun does at the prime moment is far more important than the gun itself. You could take an ancient British .303 Enfield, learn the gun, and go out kill game like a champ.