Personally, I see no need to upgrade the power of the 30-06 by increasing its speed. I have long held that if you want more power than is available in the 30-06, you do not want more velocity, you want more bullet. Three cartridges that might really use additional velocity are the 308, the 350 RM, and the 458, since each of these is hampered by a case capacity too small for optimum ballistics. (John Gannaway can indeed achieve full velocity in the 350 RM, but only by loading up to the point where the cases are not re-usable.)

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.2 No.2  Feb. 1994

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On the matter of Scouts, we are mildly annoyed to discover that the term has been picked up and run off with by all sorts of people who have never seen a true Scout and do not know what it is. Most of these people do not realize that a Scout must make weight, and it must use a general-purpose cartridge readily available worldwide and suitable for any target up to buffalo. This points towards 308, but options include 30-06, 303 British, and the 7-08 for jurisdictions where 30 calibers are prohibited. It does not include the 223.

Anybody is at liberty to call anything whatever he wants, but the Scout attributes were fully discussed at the Scout conference held nearly ten years ago at Gunsite, and customized versions have distinguished themselves all over the world. I have tried to write the matter up on several occasions, but I am amazed at the number of people who adopt a term without reading into it.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.3, No.2 Feb. 1995

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Those involved in competition should remember that the start signal should always be visual rather than audible. In the real world, you start because of what you see, not because of what you hear.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.4, No.3 Feb. 1996

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One of the curious legalisms we discover back in the Darkest East is the fact that while New York state has an open season on deer and permits its citizens to take the field with a rifle, the state policy on training insists that a student may not even be allowed to touch a rifle that is not his. Apparently they do not mind if you take to the woods, but they do object if you try to learn how.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.5, No.2 Feb. 1997

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Recent television releases from the White House deliver the message that it is all right to lie as long as one is not under oath. The Chief Executive made this very clear in an interview last week. “It doesn’t matter what I said, I wasn’t under oath.” That is an interesting message to transmit to our youth. Teaching our young people to speak the truth is never easy, but it can be done. Dismissing the matter as essentially irrelevant is yet another example of the general decay of our culture.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.6, No. 2 Feb. 1998

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Our hero Charles Schumer, the new Senator from New York, is on record as inflamed with a “passion to legislate.” Legislation, by definition, is coercion. Here is the bare face of tyranny! Perhaps the first item on the senator’s legislative agenda should be a new federal law making “a passion to legislate” a federal crime.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.7, No. 2 Feb. 1999

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Somebody told me that the factory has come up with a rifle very much like the Scout, but in caliber 223. I cannot verify this, but I hope that it is not true. There is no possible reason for a scout-type rifle in that caliber, but then a year ago at the show I saw a muzzle brake on a 22. You can become very unpopular by asking people “why?”.

Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol.8, No. 2 Feb. 2000