Maybe It’s Just The Fudd In Me…

… but the whole scout rifle concept just leaves me cold.

Yeah, I know it's heresy against the Church of Jeff Cooper, but something about taking a nice, quick-pointing and lightweight bolt action rifle and uglying it up just makes me want to heave.

I know such a rifle just makes some people all happy in their pants, but you know what that setup really needs?

One less flash hider/compensator, no iron sights, no rail, no butt-ugly removable magazine, a nice 2.5x scope, and a recoil pad that doesn't look like a fucking afterthought, that's what it needs. If I had to, I suppose I could leave the rail and forward-mount a long eye relief scope on it. That way, you'd have this rifle, and a full 2.5 inches shorter than that Frankenstein pictured above.

If I wanted a rail farm and a compensator and a high-capacity magazine in a bolt-action firearm, I've already got one of those.

It's called an AR15. All I have to do is stop cleaning it.