Unfortunately, I do not believe that UA has a presence in the US. Here is a post from a couple of years ago on a different forum that explains the rationale behind the rifle:
Hello All!
And thank you for discussing our products in this wonderful forum, upfront please apologize for our bad English skills and let me introduce ourselves, we are the Unique Alpine Team from Bavaria.
Unique Alpine is probably more known for its modular high precision rifles like the TPG-3 a high-end tool used by special forces.
In 2018 our Team here at Unique Alpine decided to offer our knowledge and expertise also to other markets, so we started to design two new lines in our portfolio, the JPR-1 line (Jagd-Präzisions-Repetierer meaning in English “Precision-Hunting-Repeater”) and the UPG-1 line (Univeral-Präzisions-Gewehr meaning in English “Universal-Precision-Rifle”)
Today, unfortunately we are not present in the United States (believe us, we are most sorry for that) but we are working hard to start serving and supporting the community of hunters, rifle enthusiasts, sportsman and professionals within the United States. Just give us a little time, since it is not easy to find the right approach to start a company within the US as we are only a midsized company with 40 employees highly dedicated to quality and precision manufacturing.
Saying this we were really surprised that we found this blog, where our products are discussed, so we thought, well why not tell you folks a little bit about our stuff that we produce and explain why it looks the way it looks and why we call it “Scout”.
We are aware about Jeff Cooper’s definition about a Scout Rifle and what his great ideas behind it were. Meaning, we do know that our two models, the “Kodiak” or in this case the “Kodiak Scout” as well the “Nordland Scout” are not really 100% according Jeff Cooper’s Scout Rifles defining characteristics. Well, we are less than 40 inches, we do have detachable box type magazines (AICS standard) with a 10rd capacity (or 5rd flush fit) but we are with 7,9 pounds a little over weight and maybe we could put also the 1913 Milspec rail slightly lower for a scout scope. But with our heavy weight 16.5inch barrel with a “SUB MOA” guarantee, we may outperform many others, which might be closer to the original Scout specs.
But all this deviation of the “Real Stuff” can be explained.
So, let me start, since we are from Bavaria, we not only like our beer, we also like our rifles (both might be nowadays not anymore politically correct, but in Bavaria we don’t care about it), that is why we put a lot of thought in our products and the “Kodiak” was designed with the Canadian Mounted Police Solicitation in mind. That is why you see a lot of the features integrated in this rifle (Heavy Barrel, Laminated Wood Stock, Open Sights, etc.) so one of your fellows (donwin) was not so far out with what he was guessing, even if we did not submit the rifle to the solicitation.
But why we call it a “Kodiak Scout” and put a rail on it? Here the answer, the rail here in Bavaria is not used for a “Scout Scope” it is primarily to mount a night vision or thermal device in front of the rifle scope. So, while on one hand you will find a lot of the features described in the scout rifle characteristics by Jeff Cooper, we deviated from some features to be able to match with some specific need here in Bavaria and Europe.
Speaking about the “Nordland” it is pretty much the same, we are using here the stock of a very good friend, Oscar Haugen, a passionate hunter and the CEO of GRS Stock from Norway, so we using here the outstanding knowledge of ergonomics and combine it with unmatched precision and hold it pretty open with a long rail (1913 MilSpec) interface to adapt any scope and Night Vision Device on it.
We hope that this could explain a little, so let us apologize for the confusion.
However, as long we are not physically over in the United States, everyone is more than invited to visit our Homepage www.unique-alpine.com, we are more than happy and glad to hear your comments on our products, who knows maybe we should start a new project of a 100% Scout Rifle according the characteristics set by Jeff Cooper, meaning every input is always highly welcome!
And hopefully see you soon in the US.
Best Regards and stay healthy!
Your Unique Alpine Team