About four years ago I undertook the task of writing a book about Scout Rifles. (I hope to releases it in early 2017.) The research has been exhaustive and during the process I stumbled on The Scout Rifle Forum. Now, I learned long ago that forums are a lot like houses of ill-repute; they look appealing from the outside but once you become …
I like ARs, I own ARs, and I hunt with ARs; hell, I even wrote a book about ARs. Some folks like to use the term “Modern Sporting Rifle – MSR to describe the AR but I think this is nothing more than an extension of political correctness. It’s an AR and if you see where I have used the modern sporting …
The conventional definition of the term “scout rifle” is any rifle with a forward mounted optical sight. Gunsite Academy founder Jeff Cooper coined the term and on multiple occasions defined it. However, his efforts to perpetuate a certain type of firearm are largely lost on the modern shooter. The result is a bastardization of a concept that had a lot to do …
