05-06-2011, 03:24 AM
Bwaites is right. Go with a 20" for hunting. If you make the gun too heavy you'll never want to hunt with it and end up buying something different to hunt with. Chances are you wont be knocking anything down at the range that it would make much of a difference between the two (that sounded weird but I hope it makes sense). I built a 24" anticipating to hunt and bench shoot with it and the gun ended up weighting 14.5lbs with optics.....sooooo now it's a great bench shooter.