Mosin zeroing tips

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I went to shoot ny 91/30 for the first time this weekend.

I love the cartride and the platform but it was shooting way high and left.

After putting the bayonnet on it started shooting a bit better but jt still shoots high and like 4 inch to the left.

I read you could have it rezerod without the bayonnet and replace the front post to achieve quite good accuracy.

Can a gunsmith do that in his shop or are there relatively easy ways for an untrained noob to do it myself ?
 
Never shot mine with a bayonet on and have gotten at worst 2" groups at 100 yards best .75 with a ex PEM sniper 42 Tula [rarity 9/10]
 
A gunsmith can do this but if you have basic hand tool skills you can adjust or replace the front sight yourself. Youtube is helpfull. Essentially you need to move the front sight to the left. This can be done with a tool which slides over the barrel and uses screws to slide the sight left or right. Alternatively you can use a brass punch and hammer/mallet to drift it. The front post height can be used to change the elevation. You may choose to just adjust your hold position ie. six o'clock

I don't shoot any of my mosins with the bayonet. When needed, I replaced my front site with a height adjustable finer sight from Smith-sights. This allowed for both vertical and horizontal adjustment. Google FORS "front opposite rear same" for how to adjust open sights.

For me part of the fun of a mosin is learning about it and working on it myself. It not an expensive gun to learn with.
 
I replaced the front sights in my two Mosins with Canadian-made, adjustable Euclidean front sights (h ttp://www.euclideanmachine.com/mosinsight.html). Problem solved. Each of them shoots now POA=POI.
 
On my ex-dragoon the rear sight slide had material removed from the bottom to lower the point of impact. It came that way out of the crate.

Shoots point of aim without bayonet.
 
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