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The Forever Rifle: rOm's Scout Rifle
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Had both the Mossberg and the Savage Scouts, and wasn't impressed. Savage had those crappy 2-piece mags and the Mossberg was just poorly made.
For my money the Ruger Scout is the best out of the box. I also just picked up a Gun Talk Radio (Tom Gresham) "GT-30" special edition which is a Ruger American Gen 2 set up as Scout. Since I already have the RGS in 308 I went with 5.56 on this one, even though Col. Cooper would heartily disapprove.
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For my money the Ruger Scout is the best out of the box. I also just picked up a Gun Talk Radio (Tom Gresham) "GT-30" special edition which is a Ruger American Gen 2 set up as Scout. Since I already have the RGS in 308 I went with 5.56 on this one, even though Col. Cooper would heartily disapprove.
NEW Ruger Gun Talk Scout Rifle Revealed | Gun Talk Nation
Gun Talk Nation presents the exclusive reveal of the Ruger Gun Talk Scout Rifle (GT30) — a special edition rifle celebrating 30 years of Gun Talk Radio.
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That was the idea. Ounces become pounds.
So why buy a rifle with a scout rail on it and then mount the glass in the traditional place? If that's the plan, I'd look at the patrol model of the same rifle. The bolt was fine. It ran smoothly and had nice, crisp actuation and closing.
I usually dig all the Gun Jesus content. I thought the original Steyr Scout model was faithful to Colonel Cooper's specs although I didn't really dig the stock. I remember reading the article on the whole Scout Rifle concept article in the late 90s. I just can't remember if it was in The Shotgun News or other popular magazine. If my memory serves me the original rifle used a long eye relief lower powered pistol scope mounted further forward. That was the neatest part of the whole project to me. Having an optic but still being able to engage at close distances. Back then I really wanted to build one on a Mauser rifle but 308 chambered Mausers were pricey then and worse now. In fact I really thought a Spanish FR8 rifle would make a great candidate. But these days those are even more expensive.
But yeah I'm following this project.
The first one that I built was a Mosin. Knocked of the silver solder on the rear site and put a weaver dovetail to picatinny adapter on it, hacksawed the barrel at 16" and put it in an ATI stock. I was in it, minus optic, for less than $100...those were the days.
Have you ever shot one? It has the weirdest recoil impulse of any rifle that I've ever fired.Had both the Mossberg and the Savage Scouts, and wasn't impressed. Savage had those crappy 2-piece mags and the Mossberg was just poorly made.
For my money the Ruger Scout is the best out of the box. I also just picked up a Gun Talk Radio (Tom Gresham) "GT-30" special edition which is a Ruger American Gen 2 set up as Scout. Since I already have the RGS in 308 I went with 5.56 on this one, even though Col. Cooper would heartily disapprove.
NEW Ruger Gun Talk Scout Rifle Revealed | Gun Talk Nation
Gun Talk Nation presents the exclusive reveal of the Ruger Gun Talk Scout Rifle (GT30) — a special edition rifle celebrating 30 years of Gun Talk Radio.
It's funny you posted this comment. I just watched a 9 Hole Reviews video which is a channel I really dig. Anyway it's their latest video and about Bubba Rifles. Turns out there are three levels of Bubba rifles. One is Bubba guns that can be unBunba'd without much expense or work. Then there is Level 2 Bubba which is of course more egregious in the mods. But the next level was called and I **** you negative "Cocaine Bubba". Well you can imagine how bad that can get.
