It seems to me that the "Scout" concept is just an expensive way to skin the same cat as the good old lever gun.
The lever gun was made to be small, light quick and cycle fast. With open sights, it excels within the 100 yard realm.
The Scout rifle just seems like an expensive and BULKY, fragile, way to skin the same cat. The optics might be a little better visually, but they are not any faster to aquire, and shooting open sights is a little more conducive to keeping both eyes open and seeing everything in the field. Optics are lso fragile and picky, and when the optics go on a scope=only rifle, you are not very well off.
Anyway, I was just noticing that it seems that a lever gun can do everything a Scout rifle can do, and that this new Scout movement is just kinda silly. Is there any reason to own a Scout rifle over a simple lever gun?
The lever gun was made to be small, light quick and cycle fast. With open sights, it excels within the 100 yard realm.
The Scout rifle just seems like an expensive and BULKY, fragile, way to skin the same cat. The optics might be a little better visually, but they are not any faster to aquire, and shooting open sights is a little more conducive to keeping both eyes open and seeing everything in the field. Optics are lso fragile and picky, and when the optics go on a scope=only rifle, you are not very well off.
Anyway, I was just noticing that it seems that a lever gun can do everything a Scout rifle can do, and that this new Scout movement is just kinda silly. Is there any reason to own a Scout rifle over a simple lever gun?