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A while ago a posted results and some pictures of a shoot I did with my 1942 Izhevsk Mosin Nagant 91/30 repro PU sniper. I recieved a lot of positive feedback so I thought I would do another, this time with another rifle. The rifle I took with me today was my Finn capture matching 1939 Tula 91/30. The rifle is NOT a standard Soviet refurb, but has been re worked by the Finns at one point in time. The rifle is (as far as I can tell) all original, and the date/damage suggests a Winter/Continuation war capture.
Here are some pictures of the rifle.
All Tula, right down to the bands
Battle Damage? (Finn added shims)
The rifle features the "SA" (Finn army) stamp, the D (D166 ammo) stamp, and the Finn "41" stamp. The "41" stamp meaning is a debate among collectors, however from what I have read many seem to think this is a year, meaning the year of capture/rework/reissue. Of course this is speculation.
More battle damage?
Matching Reciever
All in all a real piece of history! I have posted pictures on another forum and a few people seem to think the damage may have been caused by shrapnel. Of course there is no way to tell, but there is what looks like the same damage to the back of the reciever. and the right edge of the stock.
Down to the shooting!
Today I headed up to my local range where it was about -10 or so, about -15 or colder with the wind. The weather was great, clear and sunny all the way out, there was a slight wind however coming straight at the firing line.
I fired at both 50m and 100m with good results. Again keep in mind this is all iron sights and on a front rest.
Pictures of the range:
Ammo:
The ammo I was using were custom reloads. I only had 180gr .311 Sierra bullets, so I loaded them into Prvi brass (third time fired), with Winchester primers and 46gr of Reloader 15. I found this combo to be very good for my 91/30's.
The rifle shot VERY well and exceeded my expectations in all regards. My best group of the day measured a pretty decent 1.2 inches at 100m, and a little under that at 50m. The rifle has a VERY long and hard (haha) trigger, and a very rough bolt (what do you expect?!?!), but performed flawlessly, with no fail to feed/fail to fire/fail to eject etc... The rifle fired a little high, but thats my reloads (I typically use a different combo, but as such am out of those bullets!) Recoil was very manageable and shooting the rifle was a real pleasure. Overall my favourite 91/30 hands down!
The 100m Target.
My SVT - just because!(range report to come later)
Thanks for reading, any and all comments/feedback greatly appreciated!
A while ago a posted results and some pictures of a shoot I did with my 1942 Izhevsk Mosin Nagant 91/30 repro PU sniper. I recieved a lot of positive feedback so I thought I would do another, this time with another rifle. The rifle I took with me today was my Finn capture matching 1939 Tula 91/30. The rifle is NOT a standard Soviet refurb, but has been re worked by the Finns at one point in time. The rifle is (as far as I can tell) all original, and the date/damage suggests a Winter/Continuation war capture.
Here are some pictures of the rifle.
All Tula, right down to the bands
Battle Damage? (Finn added shims)
The rifle features the "SA" (Finn army) stamp, the D (D166 ammo) stamp, and the Finn "41" stamp. The "41" stamp meaning is a debate among collectors, however from what I have read many seem to think this is a year, meaning the year of capture/rework/reissue. Of course this is speculation.
More battle damage?
Matching Reciever
All in all a real piece of history! I have posted pictures on another forum and a few people seem to think the damage may have been caused by shrapnel. Of course there is no way to tell, but there is what looks like the same damage to the back of the reciever. and the right edge of the stock.
Down to the shooting!
Today I headed up to my local range where it was about -10 or so, about -15 or colder with the wind. The weather was great, clear and sunny all the way out, there was a slight wind however coming straight at the firing line.
I fired at both 50m and 100m with good results. Again keep in mind this is all iron sights and on a front rest.
Pictures of the range:
Ammo:
The ammo I was using were custom reloads. I only had 180gr .311 Sierra bullets, so I loaded them into Prvi brass (third time fired), with Winchester primers and 46gr of Reloader 15. I found this combo to be very good for my 91/30's.
The rifle shot VERY well and exceeded my expectations in all regards. My best group of the day measured a pretty decent 1.2 inches at 100m, and a little under that at 50m. The rifle has a VERY long and hard (haha) trigger, and a very rough bolt (what do you expect?!?!), but performed flawlessly, with no fail to feed/fail to fire/fail to eject etc... The rifle fired a little high, but thats my reloads (I typically use a different combo, but as such am out of those bullets!) Recoil was very manageable and shooting the rifle was a real pleasure. Overall my favourite 91/30 hands down!
The 100m Target.
My SVT - just because!(range report to come later)
Thanks for reading, any and all comments/feedback greatly appreciated!
