Scout Rifle Build Questions

[45ACPKING]

just modify a shooter grade , non restorable lee enfield no1 mkIII
I have made 1/2 a dozen handy bush rifles for myself and friends over the years .
The difference between .308 and .303brit inside 300 yards on any game animal there are tags for is pretty slim and for the inside 100 yard shots I would personally take a straight shooting .303 with a 180gr pill.
I hunt around for nice monte carlo wood stocks or a guy could use a synthetic and then add a modern scope rail. The scout models I have done utilize a full length rail, notched above the ejection area , mounting in 3 locations and using a modified enfield rear sight base for mounting the forward end of the scout rail.
There are a few ideas and options for the open sights and I like to run something like an eotech a65 or a true 1x to 7 or 8x x 32 scope.
Since my first deer dropped to my dads old surplus BSA no1 shtle 3* right around 25 years ago, I have taken more animals inside 100 yards with the .303 brit than I can remember. Never had to try and find one after the shot either. Something about a 180gr .303 brit in a handy scout rifle package really appeals to me
I don't have a pic of the scout rail mod rifle but I'll see if I can find one.

 

[caramel]

Look good. JP.

 

[Leg]

I’m quite infatuated with the Lee Enfield Scout at the top of this thread: http://www.scoutrifle.org/index.php?topic=7157.0

I’ve got a sporterized No.4 that would be the perfect candidate. There was a 5rd mag in the EE recently that would have been perfect but I found it too late as it was already sold.

Unfortunately they no longer make the LE scout mount that tiriaq posted. Not the most elegant but certainly the easiest and cheapest way to a pseudo scout.

 

[Meroh]

I'm starting a project; I picked up a Husky M96 in really good shape, but the stock had been chopped. Rifling and Chamber appears to be new, and the date in the receiver is 1944. Straight bolt, and original sights, and threaded barrel. Previous owner bought it some years back, put one box through it, and then put it away. I have never given much thought to a "scout" rifle, but with a trigger upgrade I think it would be a great cantidate (I am already loading 6.5 x 55 for another rifle), so ammo is not a big deal for me. If I get it shooting well, I'm planning on slapping a compensator on it, cutting and turnign the bolt down and upgrading the stock. Weight wise, and length wise, I think it will make a perfict "Scout".

 

[gallen270]

I’m quite infatuated with the Lee Enfield Scout at the top of this thread: http://www.scoutrifle.org/index.php?topic=7157.0

I’ve got a sporterized No.4 that would be the perfect candidate. There was a 5rd mag in the EE recently that would have been perfect but I found it too late as it was already sold.

Unfortunately they no longer make the LE scout mount that tiriaq posted. Not the most elegant but certainly the easiest and cheapest way to a pseudo scout.

It’s a little more work and usually requires a gunsmith unless your handy, but buy the largest Mauser Clifton mount (1.06” if I recall) and have a few thousandths turned off the chamber area of your enfield so it slip fits than glass it on. It’s not a huge amount of material to remove.

 

[351 power]

I was able to put a lot of these ideas together over time. But using peep sights became un seeable with a short barrel. I could use a 26" barrel but didn't find it too handy. I'm satisfied with a short barrel and a red dot sight for my short range use. Mounted on the receiver ring front base.

 

[Sun_and_Steel_77]

The Ruger scout is built on the Hawkeye action, very much a controlled feed action not a push feed.

No,not exactly. AI magazines are a center-feed design and when you use that system you eliminate usage of the original MKII side feed rail etc and change both the feed path and presentation of the cartridge entering the chamber. Basically you are a push-feed for just over three quarters of the forward bolt travel. I am on my seventh ruger GSR scout rifle now and every single one I have or had feeds the same as the video below. Try it for yourself and see!

https://imgur.com/a/61eRdbK

 

[Sun_and_Steel_77]

Yet, on the Ruger scout specifically (just for the sake of discussion) I feel that it is significantly hurt by budget target it was built to.

The mag is way too bulky for the overall lines of the stock and there is no flush magizine option.

The lower photo shows a new MDT compared to rugers 3rd factory offering for comparison.

 

[mark k]

6.5Grendel and 7.62x39. 7lb3oz loaded.
I know I’ve posted this duo before, but for the money, they are the two most accurate rifles I own under 1k.

 

[Butcherbill]

I love the no.4 and no.5 and they would make a nice scout rifle, they would fit most of the requirements. Weight is the only area they fall short, that’s the one thing I really liked about the Ruger scouts I’ve handled, even the laminate version is around 7-7.5lbs. Synthetic stock is 6.5 lbs, a far cry from the 9.5-10lbs my sporter no.4 is without ammo lol.

 

[MRP]

I redone a 98k and put a scout scope on it. After 5 years I still could not get use to it. Moving the scope mount back this winter.