Raven
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The forward mounted scopes took me some getting used to, also. But the advantages were too big to ignore. I can wear whatever hat I want (including a NV head harness or rhino mount kevlar), no more scope bite for any of my family members (my five year old got a nasty black eye, but he never did that again). I can reload thru the top faster, clear a jam faster (rare, granted) and there's nothing in the way of ejecting brass. My 16" barreled Paratrooper SKS has a forward mounted 2-7x Vortex, and my 10 round stripper clips load faster than my 20 round mags. I can stay real low in the prone with no 20, 30, 50 round mags sticking out the bottom. And I can leave my strippers loaded indefinitely, no problems with feed lips or springs or anything. (My 30 and 50 round SKS mags catch up to the strippers time, though.) If and when I want to go hunting, 20 seconds to swap it over to a flush fit five round non-detachable SKS mag and then my Paratrooper handles and points like a fine wood stocked Mauser, with a forward mounted 2-7x scope, in semiautomatic. Besides the semiautomatic capability, ALL of these benefits are available to the Mauser and Mosin scout rifle.I like the .308, for all the reasons stated above. The scout style looks good, but that scope stuck out on the handguard would be very different vs. A standard scope set up. ( after x about of years of shooting) I had a savage hog hunter( threaded, high IRON SIGHTS, detachable mag, etc, etc.)and should have kept it. Short, handy and very accurate with plain jane ammo. Savages can easily be rebarreled if another caliber catches your eye. I think baddog? On here that does alot of work with them and has some impressive builds.
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