AFIK, Burris and Leupold are the two makers of quality, purpose-designed Scout scopes.
When ordering your scope, I strongly suggest you obtain a [i]heavy[/i] plex reticule, as it is much more visible to the shooter than finer reticules.
Most Scout afficianados obtain a scope in the middle of the range of available magnifications, YMMV.

The clips referred to are standard USGI 5-rd M-14 stripper clips, which are used to reload detached mags quickly via the use of a stripper clip guide.  The '03 Springfield/Mauser stripper clips ARE NOT identical to the M-14/M1A clips.
The stripper clips can also be used to top off the mag while it is attached to the rifle, as the M1A has an integral stripper clip guide attached to the rifle's receiver.
BTW, this attached guide is often sacrificed when attaching a conventional scope and mount to the M1A.  Yet another point in favor of the Scout concept.
Many shooters store their ammo on stripper clips and bandoleers, with a stripper clip guide for each bandoleer. Makes a handy grab-and-go package, as it was designed. Just a thought.

One aspect of the Scout concept is to sight and shoot using both eyes.  The offside eye is used to find the target, while the scope-side eye does the final dialing-in.  Thus, the Scout scope must not be too high a magnification else there is too great an image disparity between the offside and scope eyes.
I suggest that you practice with an adjustable magnification scope to see how much magnification disparity you can tolerate, then back down a bit in magnification.  Here's a link:[url]http://pw1.netcom.com/~chingesh/scoutrifle.html[/url].  Let me know if I can help.  Good luck!