Thread: new canadian ranger rifle being evaluated

Originally Posted by bill f

The Canadian Rangers are a component of the Canadian Military. Briefly thier main duties are surveillance, sovereignty patrols, first response, scouting etc. A large percentage of them are aboriginals of many tribes of Indians....but not all.....mostly reflects the population of a given isolated Canadian vast wilderness areas. Since their inception in the 1940's they have been armed with the Lee Enfield SMLE#4 army rifles in .303. Aside from human threats, these people encounter wolves and polar bears and other bad ass criters plus they shoot game animals for sustenance. The old SMLE rifles are aging out and they are replacing them with a scout type rifle in .308 Win based upon the Tikka T 3 stainless laminate rifle. They are being evaluated now. See the link.....thought it was intersting

casr.ca/bg-crr-canadian-ranger-rifle.htm

if i screwed this up.....just google it

The have completed the evaluation, and the rifle chosen is the above, they will be made by Colt Canada, under licence from sako/ tikka,
I would love to buy one, perhaps tikka might do a civilian version. I know there is lots of interest, on Canada gun nuts forum and others.
the couple ranges I know, are looking forward to an upgrade rifle from the old 303.
There were several tested, ruger had a version I think.