You notice his boots dont have any tread on them, at all? I wonder if he did that on purpose. The movie "The Hunted" showed how this was good training popular with SpecOps stalkers.
One of the benefits of surviving The RSSZ, you get to surrender to Good Times & Gravity. But being Old & injured, (2 out of 3 ain't bad) the extra pound & 1/2 between the SOCOM16 & the Ruger Scout Rifle will be felt more with each passing mile afield than it used to! Yet I already have the Hawkeye Guide Gun, so pew pew pew without throwing a bolt or repositioning the stock? Guess the question is: will a scout rifle spend more time on the range than in the field? If its fun on the range there is more time in a year to be there than time License Hunting.The Rung Sat is not bad when you are young and HS/LD. But the Escambia River backwater swamp is worse when you are overweight,old,a have "injuries". ---- SAWMAN
Part of that could be influenced by the USMC Known Distance Rifle Course of Fire used at that time? The USMC clung to the 500 yard KD Course for Basic instruction long after the other Branches of the Military abandoned it. (XM-3 DARPA Rifle)Several of the most important factors of a scout are easy to carry, accurate, powerful, and easy to feed.
Cooper later talked about a light scout but was always concerned with a good power factor.
Good article. I love how they were slated for destruction but eventually the CMP sold them to us and now they're worth thousands and thousands of dollarsPart of that could be influenced by the USMC Known Distance Rifle Course of Fire used at that time? The USMC clung to the 500 yard KD Course for Basic instruction long after the other Branches of the Military abandoned it. (XM-3 DARPA Rifle)
DARPA XM-3
The DARPA XM-3 was an improved variant of the M40A3 sniper rifle designed by DARPA in collaboration with Iron Brigade Armory Ltd. in 2005 and built by the Marine Corps Precision Weapons Shop in 2006. An experimental project that was never official, the XM-3 attempted to solve all the...guns.fandom.com
In stainless? I'm looking for one in stainlessSaw a ruger gunsite rifle for sale today. 308 $1,200. No scope, just irons.
I believe it was.In stainless? I'm looking for one in stainless
Frontrunners:
Ruger® Scout Rifle Bolt-Action Rifle Model 6829
www.ruger.com
M1A™ SOCOM 16 .308 Rifle - Springfield Armory
www.springfield-armory.com
Non-rotating Mauser claw extraction controlled round feed, vs M1A semiautomatic reliability and tritium irons.
Not gonna consider the Steyr?