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Congrats on your new hunting rifle! I have taken a few antelope but yet to take an elk. I am also running a Vortex Viper (same as yours). Just picked up the Vortex today.
As far as cutting some weight off your rig, I'm not sure. It's pretty reasonable for the weight as is. I spent 3 days climbing cliffs on an Aoudad hunt with my Remington 5R Milspec 308 with a bull barrel. That was heavy enough to motivate me to pick up a lighter Tikka!
