JCooperfan1911
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I finally own one of the Colonel’s own:
The Steyr Scout Rifle is the brainchild of my idol and personal role model, Colonel Jeff Cooper, and Steyr of Austria and the USA. This versatile fieldsman’s rifle combines lightweight, portability, compactness, stopping power, accuracy, and reliability into a single package.
A highly versatile weapon meant for not only the hunting of animals, but also personal protection in a wilderness or rural setting. It’s many features such as flip up BUIS, integral bipod, forward-mounted low magnification optic, built in spare magazine houses in the stock, and accommodations meant to attach a shooting support sling, make for a great gun. This example chambers the .30 Government Short (,308 Winchester) and the 7.62mm x 51 NATO round.
I have equipped this fine rifle with a Burris 2.75x20mm Scout optic in quick-detachable Warne rings. This allows the scope to be rapidly removed from the receiver and the reserve iron sights to be deployed in moments en extremis. A Magpul’s RLS loop sling replaces the factory leather tri-strapped Ching pattern shooting sling in lieu of a more modernized lighter in weight option.
This is an early rifle, dating from the distant year of nineteen-hundred and ninety-nine the year of our Lord A.D., and since it’s introduction so many moons ago, the fine folks at Steyr have been steady at work with little upgrades here and there to the rifle. One of these is an improved geometry bolt cam pivot ring to decrease bolt lift forces when the factory adjustable firing pin spring system is set for use with 7.62mm x 51 NATO ball cartridges.
The fine resident gunsmith at Steyr USA has sent me this upgraded unit free of charge and I am excited to install it into the bolt of the weapon. Overall, my initials are this is a top arm, a treasure for the sportsman and able to certainly do “a great many things well” up to and including personal defense against aggrieved beasts and violent human attackers.
Take care,
JCF
The Steyr Scout Rifle is the brainchild of my idol and personal role model, Colonel Jeff Cooper, and Steyr of Austria and the USA. This versatile fieldsman’s rifle combines lightweight, portability, compactness, stopping power, accuracy, and reliability into a single package.
A highly versatile weapon meant for not only the hunting of animals, but also personal protection in a wilderness or rural setting. It’s many features such as flip up BUIS, integral bipod, forward-mounted low magnification optic, built in spare magazine houses in the stock, and accommodations meant to attach a shooting support sling, make for a great gun. This example chambers the .30 Government Short (,308 Winchester) and the 7.62mm x 51 NATO round.
I have equipped this fine rifle with a Burris 2.75x20mm Scout optic in quick-detachable Warne rings. This allows the scope to be rapidly removed from the receiver and the reserve iron sights to be deployed in moments en extremis. A Magpul’s RLS loop sling replaces the factory leather tri-strapped Ching pattern shooting sling in lieu of a more modernized lighter in weight option.
This is an early rifle, dating from the distant year of nineteen-hundred and ninety-nine the year of our Lord A.D., and since it’s introduction so many moons ago, the fine folks at Steyr have been steady at work with little upgrades here and there to the rifle. One of these is an improved geometry bolt cam pivot ring to decrease bolt lift forces when the factory adjustable firing pin spring system is set for use with 7.62mm x 51 NATO ball cartridges.
The fine resident gunsmith at Steyr USA has sent me this upgraded unit free of charge and I am excited to install it into the bolt of the weapon. Overall, my initials are this is a top arm, a treasure for the sportsman and able to certainly do “a great many things well” up to and including personal defense against aggrieved beasts and violent human attackers.
Take care,
JCF
