What scales do you folks use for weighing your guns?

why would you weigh your gun??

To see how much it weighs?

I just use a regular postage scale that I bought at Harbor Freight.

I use this one .

Just use a normal scale you weight yourself on. First, weight yourself. Second, weight yourself holding your gun. Next, subtract the first weight from the second. That is the weight of your gun.

I use a kitchen scale, similar to the one Grumpybiker posted up.

It depends how accurately you need to weight the rifle. If it's for competition purposes with specifications, I suggest looking at something from Old Will Knots. Something that will handle the weight that you're considering.

For instance in F-class, your rifle has some very specific guidelines to meet when it comes to overall weight, so I purchased a certified scale that could go to 50lbs.

The last thing you want to do is build a rifle and then take it to a state or national, or worse yet a world competition and find out it weighs too much. I have seen people do strange things to stocks when this occurs. And it does.

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Originally posted by Ironworker:
To see how much it weighs?

hehe

OP, I get why Nikon might weigh a gun...but why do you need to know and what gun is it...

Typically the maker has a website that lists all the pertinent particulars....

unless you made your own franken-AR..there might be questions...

Why ask why? All that matters is that someone wants to weigh a gun. The reasons are totally immaterial. This is a perfect example of, “It’s not something I am interested in doing, so it’s stupid.” Shooters in particular should keep in mind that people who aren’t shooters believe that almost everything we do is stupid.

I personally got interested in weighing guns and various parts after reading claims that some people could detect the difference in handling caused by an ounce or two of weight variance in two-pound guns (and no, I don’t believe such claims). And because I started doing that I found that factory data is often incorrect.

I use a digital luggage scale. Just hook it through the trigger guard, and you're done. They're usually accurate to 1/10th of a pound.

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Originally posted by JJexp:
I use a digital luggage scale. Just hook it through the trigger guard, and you're done. They're usually accurate to 1/10th of a pound.

Thanks for mentioning this.
My lab scale is very accurate but only useful for pistols & smaller items.
Your luggage scale statement sent me looking.
Found one I can hang from my pull-up station & weight all my ARs.
Especially the ones I put together for folks.
They always ask & my old hanging scale was proving very inaccurate.
Got two day shipping on this for less than $25 on Amazon !

With regards to the "why?" question...

Mostly just idle curiosity.
Sure the manufacturers list the weight of a rifle on a specs page - but that's before I get my hands on it and start adding shit (scopes.... lights... cruise missiles.. etc)


I'm just curious what the end result weighs after all is said and done.
Sadly it's not as simple as: "default rifle weight + scope weight + rings weight" because sometimes the stock stuff gets pulled off and replaced with different items.
My Scar16 is barely recognizable as a Scar anymore.

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Originally posted by creslin:
With regards to the "why?" question...

Mostly just idle curiosity.
Sure the manufacturers list the weight of a rifle on a specs page

And the manufacturers' sites are not even close sometimes, even with SIG. They list my P220-10mm as 39.4oz (presumably with no mag), while it actually weighs very close to 42 oz with no mag, and 44.6 oz with an empty mag.
 
A good quality line of analog scales, which can also be used for trigger pull weights, is Pesola. They operate like a fish scale, or the luggage scale, with a spring, but are highly accurate within a limited range. I have used them as postal scales, as well as trigger scales, as well as checking bearing preload on LandCruiser front wheel bearings (different models, of course).
 
https://www.pesola.com/e/  
 
Forestry Suppliers is a major vendor in this county, but I am sure there are others.
 
My "goto" scale is an Ohaus Valor 1000 (V11P3 model) digital platform scale. It supports up to 3kg, and reads to an accuracy of .5gm. It is a great general purpose scale.
 

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Originally posted by Tiburon91:
Just use a normal scale you weight yourself on. First, weight yourself. Second, weight yourself holding your gun. Next, subtract the first weight from the second. That is the weight of your gun.

That is what I do.

I do the cooking in our house and the food scale works very well for my guns. (Don't let the wife watch.)

Electronic kitchen scale has worked well in the past for mushrooms or hand guns

Many years ago I stopped by the grocery store and weighed a hand gun and individual magazines on the meat scale

I use a postage scale I got off Amazon. Use that thing all the time for weighing guns or gun stuff. Really helpful to have. Used it last night in fact to tune the buffer weight on my 9mm AR buffer.

My new hanging scale arrived today!!!
I'm sure I'll be annoying my wife , running around weighing things for no reason !


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