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I am not sure I know what a Scout rifle is supposed to be except that it has to be blessed and anointed by somebody important and cost at least $2500. So you poor slobs can't even begin to consider one, and an Enfield certainly could not qualify. (How do you make those smiley faces?)
Seriously, the old No. 4 is a good rifle and can be made into a pretty good light rifle with a minimum of costly work. To my silly mind, the "Scout" rifles are ridiculous. They are so costly and so perfectly made that no one would ever take one into the field and if they did I doubt if all that precision fitting would work very long.
A good Mauser 98 or No.4 (better one converted to .308 or an Ishapore 2A) would be a very good rifle for the original idea. And if you leave one in the wrong place and a train runs over it, you haven't lost much (that is assuming the train hurt the gun, which it might not have).
Jim
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