M1A Forum

Post edited 7:36 pm – March 11, 2010 by Tapatio

Here are some pictures of my M1A Scout. I've put 100 rounds through it so far and absolutely love this rifle. My friends with AR-15's are jealous.

Sighting it in for the first time at 100 yards. 6 clicks up and 2 clicks right, hitting bulleye's.  

Springfield #5 ballistic rifle bag. Probably could have bought this somewhere else cheaper. It's a nice bag, well padded, good construction. I wonder who manufacture's this for them?

I made this cleaning stand out of some scrap oak after reading that it is important to clean the rifle upside down, barrel pointed downards. Why buy what you can make.

My next mods

- Harris 1A2 Bipod 6"-9"

- Leupold Scout Scope

- MORE AMMO!!!!!

 Your avatar is great Tapatio. Should build a cleaning stand myself too. 

I bought the bag from Springfield $75, look in their online store under M1A rifles. I'm pretty sure you can get a very similiar bag from Midway for less – http://www.midwayusa.com/viewP…..2362613316

Now that I have the pattern it wouldn't be too hard to make some stands, $25 + shipping sound fair?

OK tapatio,  Educate an old gringo: what is a "tapatio"? (besides being the name of my most favoriite real mexican restraunt) Love your Scout. Now you need a "Scout scope". Jeff Cooper thought the M1A with Scout Scope was the best all-round international go-to rifle. Accurate, powerful, reliable, fast to reload, good magazine capacity, and find ammo nearly everywhere. I hope I don't regret getting the full size M1A but I trained with the M14 50 years ago so it just feels right.

Tapatio,

 I have sereral rifles with scout scopes. They are different than pistol scopes as the eye relief is shorter. My experience is they too work best at low maginfication (probably not more than 2.5X) as it becomes increasingly difficult to find the light exit cone and then target at anything higher. I have both Burris and Loupold "scout" scopes, both 1.5X fixed and 1.5-5X variable. Target acquisition should be almost instantanious when you bring the rifle to your shoulder otherwise the "Scout-scope" advantage is lost.

yeah some guys at my range had the same reaction when i was shooting my buddys socom 16 and they were over shooting their ar and ak's. they saw me pull it out of the case and pop a mag in.  you have to admit it looks pretty intimidating with a 30rnd mag in something that short. the guys came over while i was shooting kneeling but stepped a couple paces back due to the muzzle blast. i was drilling a 4" steel plate at 100 with the eo tech. my buddy sean let them run a mag each thru it and they were hooked and stood there asking him all kind of questions while i continued banging away

First of, that's quite the stand you made. I'm unfortunately not very talented when it comes to wood working so I can only admire such things. As for your range tale, a similar thing happened when I was with one of my buddies who's a Scout owner as well, except it wasn't cops but some of the regulars who were impressed as we were in another town visiting a friend. It seems that no matter where you go it's always in the spotlight.

I'd keep the front rail if I were you. Here's a picture of my weapon with a Burris 2.75 Scout Scope. I'm very happy with this setup for 0-250 yards.

View at 100 yards