I just tossed a crappy Bushnell 3x9x40 on mine using the factory rings. It holds zero and works well for what it is. Im going to research and put a decent one on it eventually. Right now all I am going to use this rifle for is HP silhouettes.
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I just tossed a crappy Bushnell 3x9x40 on mine using the factory rings. It holds zero and works well for what it is. Im going to research and put a decent one on it eventually. Right now all I am going to use this rifle for is HP silhouettes.
I'm really impressed with the Nikon Monarch 3-9 that I got with my Gunsite carbine deal. I use Nikon cameras and the optics on the scope are just as sharp. I used the factory rings and the rail had to go back in the box. GF
I finally got to shoot a Gunsight Carbine on sunday. I retract my untrusting sentiments. I personally shot a 3/4" group with one off a bipod that was supported by a plastic table.
Also, I have gotten a very good taste of Ruger's customer service over the past year, and they have impressed me to no end. They stand behind their products and take more responsibility for them than any company should. They are a model company and they deserve all the adoration that has been lavished on them. I am officially a Ruger fan to the hilt. Both pistols and rifles, and the Gunsight in particular rocks. The checkering is the detail I respect most. They didn't press it.
NICE! What did you think of the trigger? How was the recoil and muzzle blast? What was the load? I'm dying to get home and play with my new carbine!
Dan;
You didn't address the trigger question to me, but I'll answer it anyway:
The trigger on MY Gunsite Scout is so good that I haven't even had the barreled action out of the stock. It's light and crisp at around 2.5 -3 pounds, and simply suits my preferences perfectly. In addition, the action is oily-smooth right out of the box, which apparently was NOT the case with the earliest GSRs. Mine is a left-handed model, given to me at Christmas 2011, well after the GSR hit the market.
I do believe you'll be a happy camper with this one....
My trigger and action are the mate to Bruce's, but in a right hand model. Mine is a 2013 production rifle. Very accurate, too right out of the box. When the temperature drops another 10 degrees I'm heading to south Georgia for hogs and deer with it. GF
The one I shot was a left handed model. I shot it right handed.
The trigger was a little on the heavy side, but did not interfere with accuracy.
The owner had removed all the spacers from the stock so it was like choking up on a youth rifle.
The bolt was very smooth, and easy to manipulate.
All that, and it shot a dam impressive group.
What more could a guy ask for from a rifle that cost less than $1500?
I had heard that the more recently produced rifles would have the poly mag, but my 2013 had the metal one. The rifle had several of the "tinny" noises I had heard about, but they all disappeared
when I used a poly mag. GF
WOO HOO!! Got home last night and picked up my scout rifle today! The guy I got it from threw in 2 ten round and one 5 round poly mag with it.
I pulled the tacti-junk rail off of it, as well as the rear sight. Mounted a cheapo 3-9x40 scope on it for now. Action is VERY smooth. Trigger is superb for a modern factory rifle. I will sally forth to ye olde shootin spot tomorrow with a bag full of various handloads, and see how it does. I may just have to go tip over an antelope with it on monday....
Well Dan: Welcome to the world of the Ruger Scout Rifle.
Tim: told ya so! Haven't steered ya wrong yet?
Randy
I am seriously considering having my GSR stock (comb area) altered so I can adjust the comb up or down. Does anyone have any recommendations on who to send the stock to for this work?
I can't get a good cheek weld with the scope on the rifle. I've got a long neck and can't get comfortable.
Any gunsmith should be able to do it for you...
http://stockpositioning.com/4.25_Comb_Assembly.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/Buil...-kind-of-comb/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zjIt4u4JQ0
Here's a shop that specialized in it
http://speedbumpadjustablecomb.blogspot.com/
Here's a non permenant fix.
http://artoftherifleblog.com/rifle-f...ld-part-2.html
Here's a permenant fix that some of my friends have used.
www.snipercentral.com/karsten.htm
How handy are you?
http://archives.gunsandammo.com/cont...justable-stock
http://www.graco-corp.com/t/adjustable-comb-hardware
http://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts...-prod6805.aspx
http://www.sniperforums.com/forum/di...ate-stock.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djzzir9ueb4
you may want to try just a slip on
http://www.beartooth-products.com/sh...sing-kits.html
http://www.beartooth-products.com/im...secallouts.jpg
Here's the Tacticool version with pouch or cartridge loops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjJMc1SO30
Once the correct height is figured you can do the permanent one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...0612112302.jpg
click pic to enlarge
My modified Mosin M38 scout had to have alterations to get a good snap shot off
- only mistake I made on that was you can't get the bolt out without removing it
held on by two screws.
Lefty: I would try different non invasive products like the ones Art showed here. Either one would do what you need and not cost an arm or leg.
http://www.beartooth-products.com/sh...sing-kits.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjJMc1SO30
It would give you the option of raising the comb of the stock incrementally without permanently altering it. A lot cheaper too.
Then if you decided you want something more permanent, you could have a gunsmith alter it for you.
Randy
Hmmmm.... This gunsite carbine is REALLY starting to grow on me. Shot was at 90 yards. He was chasing does, and was totally oblivious to me. Hit higher and farther back than I wanted to. I hit him in the liver, and got a lung on the exit. He ran about 40 yards in a big circle, then fell. I'm suspecting the scope I put on it is junk. It was shooting great groups but adjustments to POI were erratic. Load was a 160 gr FPGC(MIHEC GB) water quenched WW and tumble lubed with xlox. Powder charge was 20 grains of 2400. I did ZERO load development. I just loaded up 20 of these and went and sighted it in. I didn't mess with OAL to put it out near the lands or anything, and still got 1 1/2-2" groups at 100 yards. Once I put some decent glass on this thing I can get serious about developing loads for it.
Hmmm, how important to the overall "fun" factor of this gun is the detachable mag ? I asked because though I want a a RGSC I dont want another .308 bad enough to pay the price for one. I did however pick up a used (lightly if at all) from auction a Youth Hawkeye in 7mm-08. the finish and stock look remarkably similar and well the round allows me to share cast and Jwords from my 7x57. other than the muzzle brake (and thin sporter style barrel) and mag well it seems pretty much like what several of you have done with the conventional scope mount. I will have to say this thing is SLICK handling. So far I have been Real impressed with it AND I get to feel like one of the kewl kids with the tactical bolt guns.
Well, it killed him... LOL. I hit him high and back from where I should have. That being said, it was pretty darn effective. Entrance wound was caliber sized. Boolit chewed his liver up pretty good, and tore a 2" hole in the back lobe of one lung, before exiting with a 2" diameter hole, just in front of his offside hip. This is only the second critter I have killed with cast rifle boolits. The first was a big nasty warthog in Africa last June. I'm used to the big, lumbering hunks of lead that my 45 pistols spit out. There seems to be a totally different thing going on, with rifle boolits at 2000 fps. I have seen antelope take jacketed bullet hits MUCH better placed than this one, and go a LOOOOOOONG ways before tipping over.
Congrats Dan!!!! And with a Cast boolit too boot!
Note this is post number 531!
We are still just realizing the potential of these guns.
I see post #1000 within the next year or so.
Randy