Across all shooters and ammunition, we took the best 10 of our five-shot groups and averaged them to get our accuracy score. We shot all groups prone off a bipod, and the Ridgeline Scout performed very well. When testing the best rifles at our gun test, each of our five-member test team shot a minimum of five different five-shot groups at 100 yards. We did through accuracy testing with the Ridgeline Scout. The Ridgeline Scout in Action The author running the famous “Scrambler” with the Ridgeline Scout. Although some traditional scout rifles are set up to mount a scope forward of the receiver, the Ridgeline Scout features a zero-M.O.A. The bolt handle is skeletonized to reduce some weight, and a slightly over-sized bold knob aids with rapid cycling and confident operation. The machined action on the Ridgeline Scout is coated in a black nitride finish and is very smooth to operate with the AICS magazines. Rather than a front sling stud, the Ridgeline Scout uses a section of rail with a barrier stop, making it more versatile. For a lightweight rifle that’s intended to be driven hard in a wide variety of conditions, it’s a smart choice. Steel pillars add a little bit of weight, but they are less susceptible to thermal expansion and contraction changes than aluminum. It’s carbon-fiber and bedded with steel pillars and additional spot bedding as well.
The sporter-style stock is sleek and handsome. The rifle could be used in NRL hunter, where a brake would be appropriate. The rifle begs to be suppressed, and even if used for hunting without a can, I’d certainly want a flush thread protector that would be easier to tape over when using in the field. The included 3-prong-style flash suppressor gives a nod to the scout rifle ancestors but it’s a bit impractical for most users. Certainly, one would give up some velocity in a shorter barrel like that, but for many standard applications, it likely wouldn’t be a detriment in practical field applications. The 16-inch carbon-wrapped barrel is short and stout. The rifle was also to have a useful shooting sling (not a carrying strap) and could be topped with an optical sight, but one that offered no more than 4X magnification.” Using the AICS magazines, the Ridgeline Scout is easy to “top off” by dropping a single round in the action. It was supposed to be less than one meter in length, weigh less than 3 kilograms, and have functional iron sights capable of hitting a man-sized target at 450 meters. To give some meaning to this broad mandate, Cooper and his cohorts created a list of specific criteria that a Scout rifle needed to abide by. It was to be a nimble magazine-fed bolt gun that could be carried all day and called upon to haul the shooter’s bacon from the proverbial fire when the need arose. Here, Snow references Jeff Cooper’s (who established Gunsite) founding of the platform: “A Scout rifle, properly speaking, is a general-purpose rifle that can be used for survival, hunting and personal protection. Snow wrote the following great description of what a scout rifle is intended to be in an article when Ruger introduced their Gunsite Scout Rifle in. To evaluate the Christensen Arms Ridgeline Scout as a scout rifle, we have to understand what a scout rifle is and what it’s intended to do. Trigger: Triggertech flat-shoe trigger-2 pounds, 1 ounce (measured)įeatures and Function of the Christensen Arms Ridgeline Scout.Stock: Christensen Arms carbon-fiber, sporter style, stainless pillar-bedding.Barrel: 16-inch 416R stainless steel, carbon-fiber-wrapped.
Receiver: Christensen Arms precision machined receiver.Capacity: 10+1 (AICS magazine compatible).
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