A properly qualified policeman should be able to take on any one dog without recourse to gunfire. If a dog is wearing a collar when he attacks, he is good as dead, and even if he is not wearing a collar, almost any sort of blunt or edged instrument will serve to stop him - in the hands of a qualified police officer. He ricochets from one scandal to another, endlessly self-absorbed and generally despised. I note with some puzzlement that the 376 Steyr cartridge is now announced for sale, even though I do not know any place where there are samples of it. The two weapons are structurally identical, and while there may be a few ounces more steel in the Dragoon than in the Scout, I cannot see that makes up to two hundred dollars difference.
Marketing is an extremely esoteric activity.
Clearly there is a lot of money out there somewhere. On the subject of money, we note that the whimpers we hear about the price of the Scout do not seem to discourage multiple purchases. About the only place we know of where a large magazine capacity is useful to a hunter is in Australia, where the pigs are a dreadful nuisance and legitimately taken in large numbers. We recently read a magazine account of a hunt which gathered up no less than 43 pigs in one day. If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting.