Ever hunt with a Mosin Nagant?

tomh1426, jbrown

OR, someone could buy what they prefer. I have two Mosins that were made 1n 1892 and 1897. Both still shoot under one inch with Yugo ammo. I never killed a deer with mine, but not for a lack of trying though.

I was looking at a NEF 45-70 yesterday and the price is right and I know for a fact they shoot way better than they look. Dang it! I need to go read my own advice, or maybe get both like I am thinking of doing. You can get both for less than $300.00. Ok I need to stop thinking about this now.....................
 
I killed my first deer with a Moisin Nagant 91/30 "43r". I highly recommend the rifle. Also I used Albainian military ammo with a steel core and open sights. All it took was one shot at 45-50 meters.
 
My suggestion is to buy a Remington Model 700 in 270. 308 or 30-06 and be done with it. But if you just have to use a Mosin, it will kill a deer but don't use full metal jacket military ammution. Besides being typically illegal, the FMJ choice lacks respect for your quarry and you probably won't get many at-a-boys from many other hunters.
 
Mosins are great rifles. A lot of the supposed problems people see in them comes from the fact that they are Russian. The 7.62x54r will harvest anything you want in North America. Ammo is cheap and plentiful, but not as cheap or plentiful as it used to be. It is a metric 30 cal so it's not .308 but rather .311, this is the same as the British .303 go figure. And Barnes is now making all copper bullets in .311 for the .303 Brit and the Mosin 7.62x54R. Yes if you go to all the trouble of replacing the stock it does drive the cost up but why would you do that if you just want a good hunting rifle? Using a glass bedding kit from Brownells costs about $23. That and the Mil surp stock will work wonders. Cheaper then dirt has Sellier & Bellot 180gr soft point hunting ammo for $17. So you can buy a Mosin for around $100 on sale, put some bedding compound into it if it needs it for $23 and the get a couple of boxes of ammo and you are in the field ready for anything for less then $160. If you want to add a scope I would stay away from the no drill mounts. The scout mounts are OK and don't require you to change the bolt handle. But the best is getting a weaver side mount and using a Brownells Universal Bolt Handle. The side mount, all together, will be about $50 and the bolt handle will be about twenty. I fit and welded mine with a gas welding rig, worked just fine with Brownells high nickel rod. At this point you are at around $230. COuld you find a used rifle with scope and ammo that is a .308 power for $230?? Maybe but not likely. If you do it will be way used and you will, most likely, need to rebed it, the owner did sell it for a reason you know.

But it all boils down to the fact that if you can do your part the Mosin can do it's. And for very little money. And as a point of fact the 7.62x54R is about the same power level as a 30-06. The 7.62 starts to fall off with bullets over 200gr. But below that it is about the same. And the Mosins have won at the Olympic games in the past so there is nothing wrong with the MN.
 
A much better option, imho, would be to find an old sportered-and-scoped '03 springfield 30-06 or mauser 8mm (k98, m48, vz-24 etc.). All the necessary deer-hunting mods were done years ago, and they're common in pawn shops and online, often for $200 or less. A big plus if you go this route--a much better safety and trigger, and better hunting-ammo availability.
 
Hunted with my M91.59 this last year. Worked great, will find the picture and post it. IMO it makes a good brush gun (it's a carbine model) and works great if you hunt thick cover. Very accurate (mine is anyway) and great penetration. Knocked her over and cut clean through three ribs before exit. I think it would be more than enough for elk at 200 yards.
 
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