Answer to a question that should not have been asked. In others words completely useless!
To each his or her own, I suppose, and no offense meant, but that is an "answer to a question that YOU should not have asked".....maybe. Maybe some day you'll be asking it too, for similar reasons to why I ask it. For the sake of
your health, I honestly hope you never have to......
I have a 26" heavy barreled R700 that shoots like a dream. I have an AR10 SASS rifle that has put 4 rounds into one hole at 100 yards with my son's much younger eyeballs. I also own a Gunsite Scout, and I love it. It actually DOES answer a question of
mine: "How can I get a
reasonably priced, off-the-shelf, left-handed, short and handy, fairly light, .308 BOLT-ACTION rifle with really fast sight picture that uses removable box magazines, light enough that an old poop such as myself with a
really bad back might be able to carry around?" Answer: "Off-the-shelf, you say? Buy the Ruger Gunsite Scout!"
It is not only my "grab and go" bolt rifle, it is my preferred hunting rifle for hogs and white tails in north Texas. Having some trouble working up a good handload for it, mostly because the bullets I want to buy are impossible to find lately, but I've had decent "
practical accuracy" results with Federal Fusion's 165 grain hunting load....say 1.0-1.5 MOA at 100 yards. Where I hunt, I never see shooting lanes longer than about 200 yards, so that is acceptable.
I mounted a Leupold ("SWFA Exclusive")
Leupold 1.5-5x33 VX-R Scout Scope on it with a set of
Leupold QRW 30mm Rings. The scope body is just a little bit longer than most scout scopes, so I moved it forward a tad and took out the spacers from the buttstock, and it works perfectly and comes up to the eye naturally, just like an AR carbine does. I love this rifle:
Assuming 2400 fps at the muzzle for a 175 grain SMK (I haven't chrono'd it yet, so this is just a guess from this short barrel) with a 200 yard zero, my ballistic calculator says it ought to be no more than 2.7" high at 125 yards to 4.3" low at 250 yards; which means that the Firedot reticle without any stadia lines can be relied on as basically a "point and shoot" reticle out to 250 yards.......well within the hunting capabilities I am likely to run into in the brush. Now, I've still got to go and
prove this through load development, but preliminary range sessions at 100 yards have been promising. This is NOT a sniping/varmint rifle, but neither does it weigh 10 or 11 lb. like either of my tactical bolt rifles, nor does it weigh the 17 lb of my SASS rifle. What it is is a lightweight and handy rifle or acceptable practical accuracy that a semi-disabled old man like me can hump around some hunting land without having to work too hard just carrying stuff.
And that most certainly does provide a valuable answer to a question that at least some people are asking......and again, no offense meant.
