One more thing. The LWS I have now is a short action, wearing a 20" sporter weight 7mm-08 barrel. It's 6 lbs. 3 oz. bare. I ordered a 20" Proof Research barrel for it in .308 and then sent that barrel back because it was actually too light. I think it was 2 lbs. 2 oz. and the rifle didn't balance well at all with it, which is the reason I pulled the factory LWS barrel in the first place.

BUT, had that been a 16" barrel with a suppressor on the end, I think it would have balanced really well. I just don't use suppressors. So for me the gun didn't have enough barrel weight to hold steady, even at 20" and I decided to send it back.

I think if you went with a 16" CF barrel and a suppressor on a short action LWS, you'd be very happy with that in the mountains.