Good Day:
What commercial load of 7.62mmx54R ammunition expands the quickest or most violently upon impact with a living target?
I had to re-purpose my usual truck long gun, a Remington 870. My next most appropriate long gun for that duty is a M-44 Mosin-Nagant. Yep, the one with the folding bayonet. Were I made of money, I would buy a long gun for this purpose, but, alas, I was neither born nor have become Mosin-in-cosmo filty rich.
All I have shot thus far from my Mosin is heavy ball (174gr FMJ, IIRC) milsurp. Since it is going to get more serious duty, I intend to spend a bit of time working it over (another deep-clean, lube, "accurizing*") and shooting several variants of soft point and/or expanding projectile cartridges to see what groups best. Might even get a mojo sight for it, just like my M96/38 Swede.
My final ammunition choice will be a function of the following factors:
1. Reliability
2. Accuracy
3. Expansion in target, the earlier and more violent the better.
Thanks for any and all insight.
* Don't laugh, now. Most any rifle's inherent accuracy/precision/dispersion can be improved with a little attention.
What commercial load of 7.62mmx54R ammunition expands the quickest or most violently upon impact with a living target?
I had to re-purpose my usual truck long gun, a Remington 870. My next most appropriate long gun for that duty is a M-44 Mosin-Nagant. Yep, the one with the folding bayonet. Were I made of money, I would buy a long gun for this purpose, but, alas, I was neither born nor have become Mosin-in-cosmo filty rich.
All I have shot thus far from my Mosin is heavy ball (174gr FMJ, IIRC) milsurp. Since it is going to get more serious duty, I intend to spend a bit of time working it over (another deep-clean, lube, "accurizing*") and shooting several variants of soft point and/or expanding projectile cartridges to see what groups best. Might even get a mojo sight for it, just like my M96/38 Swede.
My final ammunition choice will be a function of the following factors:
1. Reliability
2. Accuracy
3. Expansion in target, the earlier and more violent the better.
Thanks for any and all insight.
* Don't laugh, now. Most any rifle's inherent accuracy/precision/dispersion can be improved with a little attention.