Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles The Steyr Scout rifle....why?

Never did drink a lot of CooperCoolAid but I must be really nutz as I have at least a dozen carbines with forward mounted scopes.

Most of the .308 bolt guns have had their fixed low power scopes replaced with the Burris 2-7 with BallisticPlex reticle that makes hitting out to 600 yards fairly easy...

I have both IER and standard scopes and hunt and shoot with both...have never had a problem using either.

Savage 7.62x39...400 yards...



Ruger 18" stainless GSR



Remington 700 Youth/Synthetic w/Leupold M8-2X



Remington 600s .350 and .308



Ruger Frontiers in .358 and .308



Marlin 1894S .41 Magnum...




Have shot and would would be proud to own one of the Styer Scouts but just have never found the right deal on one...

Bob

I'm having a scout mount installed on my browning 71, I haven't shot it yet but fail to see how it could be a disadvantage compared to the peep it had on it.

Mm

I looked at this rifle closely at the NRA show a few weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the receiver has picatinny/Weaver slots in the conventional places on the receiver for a "normal" scope mounting option. If you like the feel and features of the rifle (which i did) I would mount a traditional scope in some QD rings at this location and go forth and shoot stuff! With the QD rings you could pop the scope off and use the flip-up iron sights in a pinch.

If someone has a Scout that offends them greatly contact me and I will take it off your hands...

I'm a little amused about you never finding the right "deal" on a Steyr Scout. If you sold all of the rifles pictured, you would likely have enough money for two Steyrs in two different calibers. :-)

It isn't that I can't afford one...I just like it when I sell something that it cost me nothing to shoot while I had it. I have several friends who have lost more money on one deal than I have in all my gun deals in the last 30 years....

Bob

The Steyr Scout is not strictly a hunting rifle, but it can be used as such. I'd call it more of a survivalist rifle for when one is alone in the wilderness. It can be hunted or used for self defense against predators.

I use mine for hunting only and have reconfigured it with a S&B 1.5x6-42 scope in the Normal mounting place. In .308, it's my pig rifle. I still have the EER scope in reserve if the SHTF.

BTW it's a very accurate rifle with an excellent trigger.

There! My thoughts exactly.

Mind you, The most I would probably use this rifle on is a whitetail, but I've handled the Ruger and you cannot help but see these things mentioned. Jeff Cooper hit a home-run as far as making it a conversation topic.

What impresses me about the rifle is that, although it is a nice light rifle, it is trying to address issues I do not have, nor will I have.

A detachable mag? In 15 years, I have not needed more than 3 shots on a deer.
Lightweight? Yes, but where I hunt, despite the hills, I sometimes opt for a M1 Garand. Weight is not an issue
The scope position? I cannot think of a time where a huge eye relief is going to be a plus. I can think of a bunch of times where it would really screw things up.

Scout rifles = marketing ploy. Also known as: Make an unneeded product and then find someone to buy it. Happens all the time, especially with firearms, especially with cartridges that don't do anything older cartridges do just as well, but do stimulate certain nervous systems to uncontrolled coveting of advertising hype and that drooling on the keyboard of gun writers eager for another paycheck. A ding-dong and his/her money are soon parted. Really, is there any real need for a .260 Remington and 6.5 Creedmoor? How about a new Stupidly Short Deer Scrambler Magnum? Probably Norma will crank out the brass for Noseler's new Bogus Plastic Plus Deluxe Rifle to fire the thing. But then I'm a big sucker for new gadgets. Things such as primer seaters that are CNC controlled to place the primer within a Planck length. Or case trimmers that use laser guidance and three phase power to reduce .223 Remington cartridge cases to 1.750" dead on. Better still are new smokeless powders that are immortal in storage, completely temperature insensitive, eliminate copper fouling, leave a rust preventative in the bore, flow through a powder measure "like water", cost $3.00 a pound and are always in stock everywhere. What's not to like?

RJM. Nice collection.

Would you mind to give me few pointers on the mounts?

To the OP....WOW! My first thought when scrolling through your pics was " Did this guy ever drink the Jeff Cooper Kool-aid!"

Then I scrolled to the top and your opening sentence dispelled that idea.