Mosin–Nagant 7.62x54R

[85_Ranger4x4]

military rifles have always been some of the most accurate. for instance my great grandpa was a WWI Marine and Grandpa was a WWII Marine. great grandpa used to tell the family about the 6th Marines (his unit) using 1903 Springfield rifles with iron sights to open fire on a German regiment as they left the trenches at a range of about 1000 yards the effective aimed range of the Gewher rifles the Germans carried were about 500 yards. by the time the Germans got close enough to the Marine lines to actually use their rifles effectivly most of them were dead.... so at half a mile the marines were making chest shots on enough germans to stop a regemintal charge. thats a damn fine rifle if you ask me. i actually have two of them. one was brought back home by each grandpa. ones got a 1916 serial number and the other a 1937 number. both were designed in 1903 and both will still outshoot every modern rifle i own. and ive got some good ones. the best ive got is my British NO4T Lee Enfield sniper rifle though. .303 10 shot magazine and a 6 power scope. if zombies or Democrats attack im getting on a mountain top with that baby

It would be neat to have the rifle a family member had in the army. Dad got a M1 Carbine back when they were cheap, it works perfect but it would be neat to have the one grandpa lugged around Japan while he was stationed there during Korea.

But it would have been nice if he would have grabbed one for me too, the guy at the gun show had a table full of them for next to nothing when he got his...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I got the scope pins in and everything locked in place and took it out over the weekend. Really pretty happy with the results, went hunting for a couple hours Sunday and didn't see anything within shooting distance.

My range:

My rest:

My target, about 70yds, 15 degrees with a nice cooling crosswind. Shot with my heavy gloves because it didn't take long for fingers to go numb exposed. Cheap $10/box Herters FMJ ammo. I fired the upper grouping of three that are touching, and then rather quickly fired the rest more or less just trying to get the scope to move... and it didn't. I knew it was close enough to kill a deer without much of a problem and I wanted to walk around and get warmed up so I called it good. If I took my time with better conditions I could have done a lot better.

The two to the right were pre-existing, I recycled the target because it only had those two so I notched them with a knife. The two to the left was me adjusting the scope.

In case any one is wondering, the stock pretty much fits like crap. I have it mostly floated I think, back to the scope mount. It took A LOT of wallering out with a dremel, is tight on one side and really loose on the other. Looks sharp from a distance though.