Mosin Nagant rifles are as accurate as you are if the bore is alright. I have a soviet PU sniper rifle, a soviet PE sniper, a regular soviet 91/30, and two finnish mosins, and every one of them is a better shooter than I am. Russians were killing Germans at hundreds of yards with them 60+ years ago, so I figure you can kill a deer at a couple hundred yards providing you get to know the gun and how it shoots. Get proficiant with it and you won't have any problems, again if the bore is good. That's my opinion anyway.