Best way to weigh a rifle?

[memilanuk]

Why not just lay it across the bathroom scale?
If you at close to weight limit, I would suggest a scale as described in post #2, and you will be laying it across the scale.

Just guessing, but I'd imagine his original thought was that our rifles (especially F/TR with the bipod hanging off) aren't really scale friendly. Laying the rifle across the scale typically results in something contacting the ground, or the table the scale is on, unless you either stand it up, which interferes with the reading unless you are very careful, or set the scale on a chair or the corner of a table so the gun can overhang the sides of the scale platen. Even then, I typically detach the bipod and set it on top of the gun on the scale, to try and keep the weight centered. Plus, that's the way they always weigh the guns at the matches I go to.

 

[snowpro440]

Why not stop by your local rifle builder that has a scale and let him weigh it?

 

[memilanuk]

Why not stop by your local rifle builder that has a scale and let him weigh it?

Not exactly conducive to iterative testing. If you get it right the first guess, then yay! your done. Unless you need to take a little off, or have enough room to add or sub something else. Then... back and forth with an hour plus drive each way (for me) to check weight... or quit being a tight-wad and spend about one box of (good) bullets to get a scale to use at your convenience. Hmmm... which one....?

 

[snowpro440]

Not exactly conducive to iterative testing. If you get it right the first guess, then yay! your done. Unless you need to take a little off, or have enough room to add or sub something else. Then... back and forth with an hour plus drive each way (for me) to check weight... or quit being a tight-wad and spend about one box of (good) bullets to get a scale to use at your convenience. Hmmm... which one....?

Give your smith a few bucks to get it right

 

[memilanuk]

Really And what happens when I change scopes... take it back to the gunsmith to re-check? Change bipod? Add a rain shield? Is that his problem/responsibility? Nope, its mine.

 

[USMCDOC]

i went out today and bought a postal scale, weighs up to 25 lbs.. used my 100g check weight, it was spot on.. rifle and bipod is about 17.3 lbs