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Something I don’t get: Scout rifle.
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December 30th, 2010 at 11:00 am
$900 for a factory scout rifle. Hmm.
December 30th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I’m with TomcatsHanger on this.
I bought a Ruger Frontier on a CDNN closeout a few years ago for $500. Figure $100 for a gunsmith to thread and recrown the barrel with another $75 for a Smith Vortex flash suppressor. Then add in the cost of a ghost ring and front sight and then having them mounted. You are probably close to the $900 and you still wouldn’t have the detachable 10-round magazine.
I think it is a win for those of us who want a Scout rifle.
December 30th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
So with the Mosin/AK blend. 1 Trigger pull, 2 rounds fired. Am I the only person seeing a problem with that?
December 30th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
A scout rifle for self defense. Hmmmm not realy I have an old gun digest with jeff cooper discussing his scout rifle. This only vaguely resembles his idea. Steyr did it more accurately for about 3-700 more… I do not consider 900 bucks inexpensive when I could assemble something similar for much less. Think Lee Enfield in .308 with a little barrel cutting and a flash suppressor. Then there is the smooth action and lockup of the enfield…
December 30th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
The barrel is a bit short and the weight almost a bit much to meet the Cooper Scout concept, but for 10 rounds in a magazine, maybe OK. No bipod attached, however, and I still need a reason to own one that will pass the wife test. But to paraphrase the Colonel, “need” is not an issue, compared to “want.”
December 30th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
You want it, you got it.
But why?
December 30th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I see two triggers being pulled, Tango.
December 30th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I don’t want a Scout rifle, but I understand the utility of the concept.
But did Ruger have to make it so damn ugly?
December 31st, 2010 at 12:47 am
What John Smith said. An Enfield Jungle Carbine is it.
If you want 10-round capacity, get a Remington 760 and buy an Eagle 10-round maggy for it.
No offense to Col. Cooper, but he was re-fighting WW2 when he thought of the Scout Rifle concept. Since then, we’ve departed from most of the points of his concept as to infantry doctrine.
JC Garand had it perfect with the M-14. Springfield Armory still makes them, and their SOCOM CQB model is a scout rifle.
Open eyes, look around, there are Scout Rifles all over the place.
December 31st, 2010 at 4:01 am
“No offense to Col. Cooper, but he was re-fighting WW2 when he thought of the Scout Rifle concept. Since then, we’ve departed from most of the points of his concept as to infantry doctrine.”
I think you’re missing the point of Scout rifles entirely.
To wit: “”The general-purpose rifle will do equally well for all but specialized hunting, as well as for fighting; thus it must be powerful enough to kill any living target of reasonable size. If you insist upon a definition of ‘reasonable size,’ let us introduce an arbitrary mass figure of about 1,000 lb (454 kg).”
I seriously doubt he was talking about killing people that weighed 1,000 lbs, unless we’re talking about fighting your average mall-ninjas.