Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Muzzle Blast--16.5 inch Barrel New Ruger Scout

The shorter 16.5" barrel chambered in most cartridges, is not for everyone.

From my own personal experience (but this is me and nobody else), I have no problem in dealing with any added noise (use hearing protection on hunts and at the range), or with any additional so-called muzzle blast when firing my 300 WSM Ruger Frontier. Also have a friend with a Ruger Hawkeye laminated compact chambered in a 300 RCM and another owning a 338 Federal Frontier.

From the standpoint of a shooter behind the butt and pulling the trigger, I don`t feel nor see all this muzzle blast even when using maximum loadings. I don`t hunt in low light or at night in the dark. No doubt in doing so, more visible blast would be obvious.

I use both a conventional scope and a scout scope as the need suits. The Frontiers are set up to use either, which imo has great appeal for optics versatility.

From the standpoints of recoil and noise, this new Ruger Gunsite scout in the 308, should be a pussycat when compared to what I`m used to.