Since the SCAR-H was released on the market, people have been doing their ready best to transform it into a DMR. Usually, they start and end with a longer handguard and some glass — and that’s it. Today we’ll be performing the reverse: chopping down a SCAR Mk20 to fighting length.
The main issue is that the SCARH was never really intended to exist at all, not in the form we have it in. When FN made the SCAR-H, they basically just stretched out their smaller SCAR-L 5.56mm rifle to accommodate the larger 7.62x51mm. They even kept the skinny, whippy pencil barrel from the SCAR-L, much to the chagrin of those attempting a higher level of precision.
When the FN SCAR Mk20 was initially developed, 7.62 was still considered a viable long-range cartridge. By the time the Mk20 was released to the public? The swan song of 7.62 had already been sung. And though it’s not the worst for precision, it has since been surpassed by lighter, faster, wind-bucking calibers. FN FN’ing finally released the equally vaunted-and-maligned precision SCAR Mk20 in 2019 in 7.62 and followed that up with a fantastic
