Posted December 29, 2015 1:37 pm by Comments

By Caleb

Leupold Scout Scope

Doing this is something I’ve talked about before, and I have a couple of friends who have kicked the idea around as well. Why not mount a scout scope on an AR15 pattern rifle? Luckily, I happened to have a Leupold mount sitting around, and a Leupold FX-II Scout so I naturally paired them on my Troy Defense rifle. So why put a scout scope on an AR?

The idea behind the scout rifle concept and the scopes it created was to have a lightweight, fast handling rifle capable of delivering accurate fire out to intermediate ranges. The true “scout” rifles are bolt guns in .308 usually, although I think that the advances in .223 ballistics move the 5.56/.223 Remington in to the category as well. To follow the path of the scout gun, I wanted the end result to be an AR that held as closely to the ideal as possible.

The starting platform is my Troy Defense Lamb carbine, an 18 inch AR that would work very well as a DMR gun, yet manages to weigh under 7 pounds loaded. Once the scout scope was mounted, it was off to the range for zero and testing. Once the …Read the Rest

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