/out/ - Outdoors » Thread #2586755

[9 / 1 / 8]

298KiB, 661x496, IMG_1737.jpg

/SRG/ - Scout Rifle General

Anonymous Wed 24 May 2023 20:11:36 No.2586755 View View Reply Original Report

Scout Rifle General

>Jeff Cooper’s concept for the ultimate outdoorsman’s rifle
>lightweight and meant for the end times
What do you think of them?
>Which are the best?
>are they overrated?
>best cartridges or attachments?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 May 2023 20:25:20 No.2586763 Report

Quoted By:

I’m a thru-hiker, and I’m thinking about trading my Steyr Scout for something like a NULA Model 20 Short

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 May 2023 20:27:20 No.2586765 Report

Quoted By:

The Steyr Scout is really good for most folks, but with slings, two full mag, and a scope, it’s about 9 lbs, and that sucks on a long hiking trip

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 May 2023 13:02:09 No.2587066 Report

Quoted By:

You've really got to personally love stripper clips to bother getting a gun that takes them at all nowadays, much less compromise your scope options to long eye relief. Semi autos and understanding of them has also matured enough for them to largely take over the discussions of "general purpose" "versatile" rifles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 May 2023 13:17:23 No.2587072 Report

Quoted By: >>2587893 >>2587907

>>2586755
Scope manufacturers killed the concept, by pretty much abandoning long eye relief scopes. All of the ones available are pretty shit in comparison to standard eye relief ones, in terms of things like holding zero and repeatable adjustments and clarity and durability and useful stuff like zero stops.

His general direction was good in that light weight quick handling rifles are great, but there are better choices now that aren’t scout configs. A Kimber Montana, a NULA, a Barrett Fieldcraft, a Tikka Light, or a Seekins Havak are all better mousetraps. They are all lighter, with better stocks, and can be had in stainless. The Seekins even has a DBM which is a much better solution than a stripper clip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 May 2023 13:01:47 No.2587568 Report

Quoted By:

I spent a long time down this rabbit hole, bought a ruger scout, and now I’m back to carrying a sporterised smle with a fixed 6x scope from the 60s or a takedown 44mag lever gun with a red dot if I'm backpacking.

Scout rifle was a product of its time and a cool concept but realistically it’s niche is so niche you probably already have a rifle more suited to your conditions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 May 2023 23:36:47 No.2587848 Report

Quoted By:

>>2586755
I don't remember all of the tenets of the scout rifle concept but a Colt 723 AR with a scope slapped on top would be really lightweight and fulfill the role for my purposes really well. I just don't have a scope on mine sadly, maybe I should get a Brownells one?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 May 2023 02:42:04 No.2587893 Report

Quoted By:

>>2587072
long eye relief scopes will always be shittier than standard contemporaries and the only reason to have one is clearance for clip feeding

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 May 2023 03:41:44 No.2587907 Report

Quoted By:

>>2587072
I think an LPVO is an acceptable substitution for a long-eye relief scope

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches

/SRG/ - Scout Rifle General