I have owned a SCAR 16 for the last year and over all have been pleased with it so have been looking for a SCAR 17 lately and finally picked one up last week.
Concerning ergonomics, the 17 follows suit with the 16 in the pros and cons. See my SCAR16 post for further...
http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1800612&page=1
With only 400 rounds down the tube I am not going to jump the gun and comment on the reliability. Everything has worked flawlessly but 400 rounds is only a drop in the bucket.
Accuracy is another story... I zeroed the irons at 100 yards and fired several stings of prone (with and with out an ATLAS bipod), sitting and kneeling. All of these positions I was able to keep my rounds in an area smaller than 5 inches with the iron sights.
SCAR with iron sights
Here is a target after a positional drill of 2 rounds from the prone, sitting, kneeling and paddy squat and then immediately repeat it for a total of 16 rounds.
I pulled my SS 3-9 off of my SPR and mounted it on the SCAR17.
First thing that concerned me was how different the rail on the SCAR 17 was compared to my Noveske SPR... My SS 3-9 is on a one piece Larue and was nice a snug on the SPR but the rails were so much different on the SCAR 17 the mount would not stay on the SCAR with out a drastic adjustment. Not saying this is a terrible thing but I found it odd that my Larue mounted SS 3-9 has been moved from rifle to rifle with little to no adjustment until the SCAR 17.
After sorting the mounting issue I zeroed and fired several 5 round groups with little satisfaction in the groups. The groups were at best 1.25 MOA. Realistically it would group 2 MOA on a regular basis. The ammo going down rang was Black Hills 168 Match. Here is one of the first targets that ended up being the best of the lot. The top left hand dot was used to zero then I fired 5, 5 round groups....
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The last few range days I spent doing carbine fighting drills with irons and red dots but need more range time to formulate a solid opinion from that perspective.
Over all I need more rounds down range and a lot more range time but my gut tells me the civi SCAR 17S is only a battle rifle and not a precision rifle though I could be wrong. On;y time and ammo will tell.
Concerning ergonomics, the 17 follows suit with the 16 in the pros and cons. See my SCAR16 post for further...
http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1800612&page=1
With only 400 rounds down the tube I am not going to jump the gun and comment on the reliability. Everything has worked flawlessly but 400 rounds is only a drop in the bucket.
Accuracy is another story... I zeroed the irons at 100 yards and fired several stings of prone (with and with out an ATLAS bipod), sitting and kneeling. All of these positions I was able to keep my rounds in an area smaller than 5 inches with the iron sights.
SCAR with iron sights
Here is a target after a positional drill of 2 rounds from the prone, sitting, kneeling and paddy squat and then immediately repeat it for a total of 16 rounds.
I pulled my SS 3-9 off of my SPR and mounted it on the SCAR17.
First thing that concerned me was how different the rail on the SCAR 17 was compared to my Noveske SPR... My SS 3-9 is on a one piece Larue and was nice a snug on the SPR but the rails were so much different on the SCAR 17 the mount would not stay on the SCAR with out a drastic adjustment. Not saying this is a terrible thing but I found it odd that my Larue mounted SS 3-9 has been moved from rifle to rifle with little to no adjustment until the SCAR 17.
After sorting the mounting issue I zeroed and fired several 5 round groups with little satisfaction in the groups. The groups were at best 1.25 MOA. Realistically it would group 2 MOA on a regular basis. The ammo going down rang was Black Hills 168 Match. Here is one of the first targets that ended up being the best of the lot. The top left hand dot was used to zero then I fired 5, 5 round groups....
The last few range days I spent doing carbine fighting drills with irons and red dots but need more range time to formulate a solid opinion from that perspective.
Over all I need more rounds down range and a lot more range time but my gut tells me the civi SCAR 17S is only a battle rifle and not a precision rifle though I could be wrong. On;y time and ammo will tell.
