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Nice Browning High Power..
Kinda makes me want one.

 

 

Cooper is best known for his revolutionary work in pistol training, but he favored the rifle for tactical shooting. He often described the handgun as a convenient-to-carry stopgap weapon, allowing someone the opportunity to get to a rifle.

"Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons."
"The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized."
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
—Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

 

Speaking of our earlier discussion about scout rifles, it was cool to see the recent article in American Rifleman about the Ruger Gunsite scout rifle. Looks like you snagged one? How does it shoot? Anyway - Nice...

I wouldn't mind one of those sometime. (In addition to my Mohawk 600 .243) I think the scout rifle genre has been sadly overlooked by many.

 

Having used cobbled together Scouts based on a Remington Seven and 700 for years I have found the Ruger interesting. The largely Mauser derived action is tough and simple, the whole rifle is geared to hard use.

Took it out of the box, used a little locktite on the rail and rear sight screws, mounted a Leupold scout scope in Leupold rings and headed to the range.

Crisp trigger, nice balance and handiness. I was able to shoot around an inch at 100 yards with good ammo and it seemed to shoot a variety of ammo well.
Overall it makes a pleasing package that meets most of the types criteria.

It is a little heavier than ideal, but I like that and much of that weight is in the barrel-the barrel itself seems quite smooth and showed almost no evidence of fouling. Hammer forging has proven to be a good way to make a tough and accurate barrel. Not a huge fan of laminate stocks, but in this application it works well, durable with good grippy checkering and the ability to adjust length. Many seem to underestimate the cost of a really good synthetic stock, the plastic many makers use just won't cut it.

The mags are high quality, but a polymer mag would be cheaper and lighter.
Don't care much for the length of the ten round mag.

Handy, durable and suitable for most of what I use a rifle for, I think you will be pleased if this meets your concept of utility

 

Don't those Ruger scouts use AICS mags?

 

Yes, the OEM mags are made here:Home Page

Rumor has it that polymer mags are coming soon. The quality of the current mags is very high, but so is the price.

 

Thanks for the report!

 

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