The Scout Rifle Idea – by Jeff Cooper

July 31, 2025 Jared Larsen Comments 0 Comment

From the 1984 Deluxe Edition of Gun Digest:

The Early Days

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The "Sconce" taking shape.

Janelle gets in a little target practice.

Major Cooper.

Young Jeff with friend in the side yard of the house at 500 North Rossmore in Los Angeles, circa 1924

Jeff and 'Baby 'in Africa with the skulls of two buffalo. 2 Shots, 2 Seconds, 2 Buff. Taken 10 May 1990 on Jeff's 70th birthday.

Jeff handing out graduation certificates at the Sconce.

Random Quote:

“This day I completed my thirty-first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely felt the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. But since they are past and cannot be recalled, I dash from me the gloomy thought, and resolved in future, to redouble my exertions and at least indeavor to promote those two primary objects of human existence, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which nature and fortune have bestoed in me; or in future, to live for MANKIND, as I have heretofore lived for MYSELF.” (sic).

Meriweather Lewis