I can't comment on the Scorpion, but we had a handful of Italian Victrix rifles in the UK maybe 10 years ago, Stuart Anselm one of our gunsmiths/rifle builders, sourcing them, or at least the F-Class versions. At that time, Victrix was a still relatively small independent company. It was a high-tech C-N-C equipped design and manufacturing outfit rather as Gary Eliseo's (
@gme) Competition Machine is in the US, but I imagine Victrix was a lot bigger. It also happened that its CEO was an international level F/TR competitor, so he started designing and making his own rifle models and applying innovative workshop techniques such as chambering and threading barrels on a C-N-C controlled lathe. Everything was made in-house bar the barrel (American Benchmark for the competition models). They were a curious hybrid - high-tech, factory built, but as precisely made, likely even more so, than the product of a small traditional top-grade gunsmith's workshop. Fantastic design, great handling, wonderful smooth low-friction actions, great triggers and they shot brilliantly. Stuart (
https://gsprecision.info) winning the GB F/TR national league championship that year. Prices though were custom rifle, not factory.
Sales / interest was low, modest at best. I imagine that most people paying full-house custom rifle prices want to spec the bits themselves with a gunsmith, not take an off the shelf catalogue item.
Victrix already had tactical models too and IIRC we saw a few here and some were sold. It was obvious that Victrix was increasingly focussing on the LEA / military SF markets in Europe. I don't know how big their business became in that field, but suspect that they had at least some success as Beretta, the world's oldest gunmakers and one of the largest arms companies in Europe made an offer to Victrix's CEO that he couldn't refuse and bought the company and its designs, presumably to gain entry into the fast-growing tactical/precision rifle market. Whether they've retained the original standards I couldn't say, but it seems unlikely as the big company bean-counters would have moved in to reduce costs and increase output.
