Do you know the answer to this question? Or, do you just think you know the answer? Maybe the more important question to ask is, can the scout rifle be definitively defined?
Conducting research and experiments to support my upcoming book, The Scout Rifle Study, I’ve spent the last two years with my head so far up a scout rifle’s muzzle I’m beginning to wonder if it is a thing that actually exists or if its only a conceptual apparition that is used as fodder for campfire and gun counter arguments.
Regardless, the book is coming along nicely. Not only am I learning things about rifles, I’m learning things about how shooters interact with rifles. The latter might be the most important aspect of the discussion and the book to come.
At the end of the Advanced Scout Rifle Course at Gunsite Academy each attendee wrote down their thoughts on what makes a scout rifle and what its purpose was. Surprisingly, even though there were some similarities in the essays, there were some stark differences too. This, from shooters who had just completed the most sophisticated scout rifle course in the world, at the very home of the scout rifle.
So this brings us to the point of this post. What do you think makes a scout rifle? Let’s call this additional book research conducted with a random and anonymous focus group via the Internet. After all, does it really matter what the manufacturers or the gun writers think? The consumer drives the train and you are the consumer.
Please select each feature listed below that you believe is mandatory for a rifle to be considered a scout rifle.
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