I have one as well.
Yes, there's recoil if you aren't used to heavy calibers or don't know to hold the stock back firmly into your shoulder to mitigate runup of the recoil velocity. But, frankly, if you've shot any of the more standard configuration magnums in field weight rifles, it's not anything to write home about. If you've need to shoot one a lot at full power, get a PAST recoil pad to avoid the same annoyance a 12 gauge causes your shoulder after a long day of shooting.
The forward scope concept is about not obscuring field of view. You have both eyes open and can see well around the scope to pick up changes in conditions or target, to make it easy to recover a sight picture if the target gets out of the scope field of view, and to make it easy to change targets. It combines with low magnification to avoid you getting "lost in the glass". Some eschew the low power scope, but I think it is a good thing. I won the shoot-off at the end of my 270 class, and did it with iron sights. I think if you can hit with iron sights you can certainly hit with a low power scope, plus it saves you having to shift focus. The older I get, the more I appreciate that last point.
The main technical accuracy feature of the scout is that the aluminum receiver extension tensions the barrel like a barrel tube. This leaves only the portion of the barrel forward of the tensioning point free to whip around. That greatly reduces the influence of whip on point of impact, so a large variety of ammunition shoots well in the gun. Mine groups in the range of 1/2 to 3/4" at 100 yards with about any well-made round. It likes Federal Gold Medal Match. I've not noticed any problem with heat walking, which may be an artifact of the barrel tensioning system, at least in part.
That said, if I were going to shoot a high volume of ammunition to practice field positions and fast bolt operation, I would probably put together some practice loads of about 16 grain IMR Trail Boss loads with the 135 grain flat base MatchKing bullets. At 1600-1650 fps from the 18" tube, this is also perfectly adequate for shooting small game like rabbits. It certainly won't punish you in any regard.
For more serious target loads, you can do worse than to mimic Federal's Gold Medal load with 43.5 grains of IMR 4064 under a 168 grain MatchKing lit by the Federal 210 primer or the Russian KVB-7 primers. For an intermediate load, I recently switched to the bulky Vihtavuori N135 for 150 grain 30-06 Garand loads, and in 308 Win, with that same bullet, you can do worse than the same 43.5 grain charge weight giving you around 2500 fps for a moderate practice load.
This is a fast pointing rifle. It is intended for targets that reflect that, and your practice with it should reflect that, too.