Re: Best Light Weight Hunting Rifle
Budget?
Recoil sensitivity?
Experience with stalking-weight guns?
Without these answers, I'm a huge fan of Tikka's T3 Lite. For elk, I prefer a 300WM.
I had a 300WM in Tikka T3, it was a butter-smooth action, very accurate, and generated a fair bit of recoil. For stalking, it was perfect.
On the "cons" list, the bottom "metal" isn't metal, the stock ain't my favorite, and magazine is plastic. I haven't broken any of the above, but it is a concern.
There are now a few companies that sell after-market parts of Tikka, so you can swap out anything you don't like.
For the money, there is no better deal.