Templar: Mosin Nagant 91-30R 7.62x54R

[TOrrock]

Personal taste I guess. I actually love their looks.

They definitely have a very 19th Century look to them.

[P2000]

I brought mine along the last 2 range trips recently. Shooting steel plates at 200 yards with a mosin-nagant is one of the most fun things to do at my local range. You feel the history, and it is just plain fun.

[YZINGERR]

Personal taste I guess. I actually love their looks.

I agree with the other guy. I have never been a fan of most foreign military wood-stock rifles... especially the mosin and its hideous 10 mile long barrel.
To each his own of course!

[Vic303]

Yzinger, you should look at the Finn M39 then. They have a much better look to them.

[J-Dub]

Ok y'all have my intrest up. What kind of accuracy can one expect from a mosin? $79 from AIM is very tempting...

[TOrrock]

Ok y'all have my intrest up. What kind of accuracy can one expect from a mosin? $79 from AIM is very tempting...

Can't really make a blanket statement, as it totally depends on barrel condition and ammunition used. Typically, Finn reworks are as accurate as the Soviet sniper rifles were.

I haven't put mine on paper yet, but it was minute of 12" steel when firing rapidly off hand with Czech surplus light ball.

[sgtrock82]

Everytime i think im going to buy one....i just cant get over how ugly nagants are.

The fact that you can pick one up for like 80 bucks is awesome though..

There is an element of aquired taste for me. Ive had one since I was a 12 or 13, it been in the family since the 50s, an early import. Ive had a number of them but have pared it down to that first rifle, a finnish reworked 1898 dragoon, an original finish, mismatched, 1936 tula 91/30 from the spanish civil war and an original finish, matching except bolt, 1940 Izhvesk 38 carbine. My finnish m/28 was the best shooter

and as of october 14 i added an original 1944 PU sniper to the line up

[afd524]

I just picked up my first M91/30 it is a 1930 Tula. Took it to the range the other day and loved shooting it, even had the girlfriend shooting .

[YZINGERR]

Ok y'all have my intrest up. What kind of accuracy can one expect from a mosin? $79 from AIM is very tempting...

I can place a solid grouping of 2-3" at 100 yards with my 18.25" barreled with surplus yugo (i think) ammo.

[Travis B]

I can place a solid grouping of 2-3" at 100 yards with my 18.25" barreled with surplus yugo (i think) ammo.

Unless you chopped the barrel that isn't a 91/30