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It's not really a "Scout" by Cooper's standards, but it does meet length and weight requirements, and it would work for me, within my concept of "scouting".
You can see how I walked it from left to right at 25 yards until I could get them in the little box. Took about three full turns of the windage knob to do that! That Norma box is super old, probably the first box of ammo I ever bought for it, and I've had the rifle since age 16.
Sorry about the double image. I moved the scope forwards since the green blanket picture ("show us your scout rifles") to get better access to the safety knob. The Arisaka safety knob works great without a scope, but is not very user friendly with one. You can see how much eye relief this 2.5X scope has. I don't have to push my head forward or creep into the scope to use it. You can look "through it" instead of "into it".
My rifle has the war-production smooth knob, unlike the early ones that had really nice knurling on them. Even with the rear of the scope ahead of the knob, gloved or slippery fingers would have trouble manipulating it. So, I got out me detail files and put my own knurls on it. Works really great. I never used the safety on this rifle back in the day when I hunted with it. You really can't get to it with a regular scope on the rifle. So I carried it with empty chamber, and just worked the bolt when I was ready to rock. This works really well now.
The final result, for the day. I think I'm rough-sighted in. 123 grain bullets, 90 yards. The top plate was my second to last group, gave her three clicks of windage to the right, and shot the bottom plate. Probably should have put a couple more into it, just to verify if the double hole was a fluke, or the shot to the right was a fluke or representative of group size. I thinks it's more a group size thing. all my other groups looked about like the top plate. If you look closely at the bottom plate, you see tape covering the holes of another group. That's about how she was shooting today. The cartridges were reloads that I made quite a few years ago for coyote, before I declared peace on Coyote. That was a long time ago, and I never had fired any of them before.
The 7.7 "GPR" says: "Thanks for listening".