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Steyr Arms has announced that the Scout rifle is once again available with a gray stock in a rifle-only configuration.

Col. Jeff Cooper’s Signature Gray Scout Now Available From Steyr

(GunReports.com) — Steyr Arms is now offering its Scout rifle with the original gray stock.

Reintroduced at the 2010 NRA Annual Meetings as part of the limited Jeff Cooper Scout Commemorative Package, the gray-stocked Scout sparked a renaissance in Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper’s all-purpose scout-rifle concept.

And now, Steyr Arms is pleased to announce that its Scout rifle is once again available with a gray stock in a rifle-only configuration.

The Colonel’s lightweight, .308-caliber bolt-action, rabbits-to-elk, bug-out Steyr Scout rifle may well have been ahead of its time during its introduction in 1998.

The market is now teeming with one-power reflex sights that can be forward-mounted to provide the user with accurate fire and the ability to operate with both eyes open in order to immediately detect flanking dangers.

Backup “ghost-ring” iron sights that rest snugly within the Steyr Scout’s profile can be deployed within seconds should the optics fail.

Colonel Cooper felt the 1903 Springfield’s magazine cutoff was a “superior device” to anything then produced, but Steyr filled Colonel’s prescription from a different direction with the incorporation of a newly designed two-position magazine system that allowed the rifle to be fed singly with the five-round magazine in a lowered position.

The magazine could be seated one step further with minimal pressure, allowing the bolt to feed cartridges directly from the magazine. The Steyr Scout’s magazine then becomes flush fitting, and that is a feature that can be found on all current-production Steyr rifles with a double-stack removable-box magazine.

An optional high-capacity magazine adaptor and 10-round magazines are also available for the Scout.

Steyr engineers knew that to build an optics-topped Scout rifle that weighed in at less than seven

An opening for a second box magazine was also designed within the buttstock to keep a backup five- or 10-round magazine held in ready reserve, flush along the bottom of the stock. Also seamlessly incorporated were five push-in-and-turn-to-lock sling swivels attachment points in the stock that would facilitate the addition of Cooper’s favored Ching Sling.

This sling allows the shooter to lock himself into the rifle much in the same way as the loop sling allows the Marines of his beloved Corps to become one with their rifles in order to successfully engage targets at distances at 500 meters and beyond.

The overall length of the Steyr Scout was kept within Col. Cooper’s maximum requirement of exactly one meter (39.4 inches) by way of a cold-hammer-forged 20-inch barrel that was fluted for heat dissipation and weight reduction.

“Steyr has done a remarkable job of bringing my original concept to reality,” said Col. Cooper in 1998. “The Steyr Jeff Cooper Scout system is everything you could want in an lightweight, all-purpose rifle that can perform virtually any task!”

Reader Comments

The Scout Rifle is a concept that leaves me scratching my head as to why. More of a rich man's Transformer toy.

Comment by: Mister E | July 14, 2011

C.D.I. factor, Mister E !

Comment by: Dragonchow | July 14, 2011

The Steyr Scout leaves me pretty cold. While I have never handled or fired one, I don't think that I could ever warm up to it. On the other hand, however, I recently purchased a Ruger GunSite Scout, and it fits my needs and aesthetic appreciation completely. The Ruger is an M77 action with a 16.5" barrel on a laminated hardwood stock that is length-of-pull adjustable using spacers. It has good metallic sights, and it also provides a picatinny rail for the mounting of a long eye relief scope. With a birdcage suppressor and a ten-round detachable box magazine, it is a very user friendly, handy rifle.

Comment by: canovack | July 15, 2011