The one rifle you can have if you can only have one...
The scout rifle concept imagined by the famous Colonial Jeff Cooper. The scout is a short, handy, light, general-purpose bolt action rifle designed to handle full size rifle rounds, such as the .308 Winchester. Scout rifles are generally factory outfitted with iron sights for engaging targets out to 450 meters. Typically they employ forward-mounted low-power long eye relief scopes or sights to afford easy access to the top of the rifle action for rapid reloading.
L.L takes out Ruger's iteration of the scout concept; the Gunsite Scout Rifle. Introduced by Ruger in 2011. This rifle features a matte black receiver, a 16" cold-hammer forged alloy steel barrel, a forward mounted picatinny rail, 10-round detachable box magazine, threaded barrel with muzzle brake, an adjustable ghost-ring rear iron sight, a polymer trigger guard, and a polymer stock with length-of-pull spacers. The rifle is chambered in .308 caliber and weighs roughly 6.2 pounds.
We outfitted our Ruger Scout Rifle with an Advanced Armament Co (AAC) Blackout Flash Hider which explains that annoying "twang" tuning fork sound. The flash hider acts as a suppressor mount for the AAC SDN-6 7.62 Silencer. The scope is a Leupold VX-2 1.5-4x28 IER Scout. We were shooting 168gr Igman .308 WIN in this video.
Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle #6830
Cal: 308 WIN
16" CHF 1:10RH Barrel (free floating)
5/8"x24 Thread Muzzle
Factory Iron Sights
M77 Mauser-type Short Action
Forward-mounted Picatinny rail
10 Round Box Magazine (Steel Accurate-Mag)
