Practice Shooting

[Mat]

I suspect that the scout deviates too far from what people consider to be a conventional rifle i.e. wood and blued steel... I used to own the 223 version, but I got annoyed with it because it did not properly feed from the mag, I traded it in for the 308 version, I eventually sold it because I wasn't using it and had to fund another rifle, though that was long before I decided to start stalking. Should have kept it, they're silly money now!

I did like the concept, like having a spare mag handy, the backup iron sights, the built in bipod, size / weight, the magazine cut-off. I never did try the intermediate eye relief scope, more because I never saw one for sale and I had normal one. What I didn't like was that the bipod wasn't particularly quick/easy to deploy and clicks loudly, also the action was a tad stiff. What amazed me was that the paper thin barrel, how does something like that group or just not burst on the first shot!

 

[matt458]

What I didn't like was that the bipod wasn't particularly quick/easy to deploy and clicks loudly, also the action was a tad stiff. What amazed me was that the paper thin barrel, how does something like that group or just not burst on the first shot![/QUOTE]

The bipod is easy to deploy with practice and the click has never been a factor for me. The excellent SBS bolt is stiff compared to some but has never caused me a problem getting a rapid second shot off. The barrels are quite something are they not. I have shot courses demanding rapid repeat fire and though the fluted barrel gets too hot to touch it has never spread its shots.

 

[Brithunter]

Hi All,

Right the P-H Scout is not really a scout rifle at all and I believe it was aimed at the Practical Bolt action market after the S/A rifles were banned. Funnily enough I have so far not managed to find a P-H catalogue of leaflet that mentions the Scout rifle. On another note I have today found and agreed to purchase a P-H 1200TX which of course is a single shot target rifle and I believe it will complete the 1200 series for me.

As for the Mannlicher Scout I don't recall bashing it. I just said I personally would not have one as a gift. Firstly I detest plastic stocks and I find the Steyr stocks style to be dreadful to the eye it might feel all right and even work OK but I have no interest in it at all. I have never used a modern Steyr with the SBS bolt system. My newest Steyr is Pre 1924 the oldest is dated 1893 and both have the typical glass smooth bolts that Steyr was famous for and I am sorry if it offends you but I consider their modern rifles with those dreadful plastic handles to be vastly inferior to the rifles they built in the past. Of course that's just my personal honest opinion and your quite welcome to disagree with it. I promise I wil not be upset at all!

 

[Muir]

Tacking back towards the topic, I must tell you about the young lady I took shooting yesterday afternoon. This is a friends daughter and this was her third shooting session. Over the previous two sessions she shot a Springfield Armory 9mm pistol and Marlin Model 60 semi auto .22, and a Taurus .22 LR revolver (all hers)... along with my Smith and Wesson Model 17 .22 Revolver.

I spent much time teaching her foot position, form, and sight alignment and all our shooting was off hand. Yesterday, she was shooting a steel post 1.5" across at 25M with her iron sighted .22 Marlin. She then shot some aluminum disks a bit smaller than a 2 pound piece. She missed very few times. At 50M she was hitting 20 ga shotgun hulls. At 12 yards she was shooting old 7.62x39 casings that were shoved neck first into bullet holes in a plywood backer; in other words, she was shooting at the hind ends of the cases.

With her 9mm she knocked down 10 consecutive bowling pins at 25M and hit 5 or 6 of 10 at 50M. She shot her revolver with equal ease.

I am amazed. I have been teaching people to shoot for several decades but never have I found someone who listened to the instructions and did exactly what they were told to do. She is 23 years old and wears thick glasses... and told me that she LOVES shooting. I have yet to see her fire a round from a rest or the bench. She is a real Natural... a rare thing in my experience! ~Muir

 

[Harry mac]

Annie Oakley reincarnate?

 

[Muir]

I think so. She has another lesson on Saturday. This time with the .357 Magnum and the .44 magnum. We'll see how she fares with recoil and muzzle flip.~Muir