Poor man's scout rifle concept

[londonercsecse]

Is anyone familiar with this, any advice on it?

[DanTheMan]

I have forward mounted an Aimpoint on my M44 Nagant and that's been devastating on ETR targets, it's about as budget "scout" as you can get, will post a photo later. I think the criteria are light, short with a forward mounted low power scope, if you have the budget then the Ruger Scout is really good.

[londonercsecse]

I have forward mounted an Aimpoint on my M44 Nagant and that's been devastating on ETR targets, it's about as budget "scout" as you can get, will post a photo later. I think the criteria are light, short with a forward mounted low power scope, if you have the budget then the Ruger Scout is really good.

Future plan for me, maybe a Lee-Enfield.

[saddler]

An IDEAL donor rifle would be a Swede M38 carbine

The ONLY negative point I can make on the original Jeff Cooper concept was his adhering to the caliber....insisiting it must be 308.

I'd prefer 6.5x55 or 6.8x43...possibly the latter for most social distance work

XS Sights in the USA make a really nice Scout Rail that is offered in a few variations....I have one of them on my Winchester 94.

[ovenpaa]

I was lucky enough to aquire an Ishapore 7,62x51 from Sandgroper of this forum last year. It came with a shortened barrel, synthetic stock and 12 shot magazine and is *the* perfect poor man's scout rifle, Mark Bradly dropped off a new black M1 sling for it at the Phoenix so I need some swivels to suit now and fit the L1A1 flash hider which is probably going to involve shortening the barrel back a bit. I am struggling a bit with my current long eye relief scope so on the look for something a bit different in the 4-6x range.

The good news is it will happily shoot 147 grain 7,62x51 all day and is nice and compact.

Here it is in all it's splendour (Viewer discretion advised)

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[londonercsecse]

An IDEAL donor rifle would be a Swede M38 carbine

The ONLY negative point I can make on the original Jeff Cooper concept was his adhering to the caliber....insisiting it must be 308.

I'd prefer 6.5x55 or 6.8x43...possibly the latter for most social distance work

XS Sights in the USA make a really nice Scout Rail that is offered in a few variations....I have one of them on my Winchester 94.

308 is most common caliber in UK, so in a TEOTWAWKI situation it would be better.

[londonercsecse]

I was lucky enough to aquire an Ishapore 7,62x51 from Sandgroper of this forum last year. It came with a shortened barrel, synthetic stock and 12 shot magazine and is *the* perfect poor man's scout rifle, Mark Bradly dropped off a new black M1 sling for it at the Phoenix so I need some swivels to suit now and fit the L1A1 flash hider which is probably going to involve shortening the barrel back a bit. I am struggling a bit with my current long eye relief scope so on the look for something a bit different in the 4-6x range.

The good news is it will happily shoot 147 grain 7,62x51 all day and is nice and compact.

Here it is in all it's splendour (Viewer discretion advised)

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Very nice!

[saddler]

An IDEAL donor rifle would be a Swede M38 carbine

The ONLY negative point I can make on the original Jeff Cooper concept was his adhering to the caliber....insisiting it must be 308.

I'd prefer 6.5x55 or 6.8x43...possibly the latter for most social distance work

XS Sights in the USA make a really nice Scout Rail that is offered in a few variations....I have one of them on my Winchester 94.

308 is most common caliber in UK, so in a TEOTWAWKI situation it would be better.

....and here's me thinking .22lr was more popular than 308 tongueout

[DanTheMan]

Nagant M44 Scout

[ovenpaa]

DTM what is the 'scope?