7.62x54R - What shoots this?

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mhowarth

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So as the title suggests, I'm looking to get some ideas as to what shoots this particular size round.

I am of course aware that the Mosin family of rifles is chambered in this size, as well as the SVT-40, but aside from these old Mil-surp work horses, what else is available?
 
It is not a red rifle, but you can get a Winchester 1895 lever action rifle in 7.62x54R....if ever found for sale.
 
Not much in this country - almost everything else than what you said (aside from the SVT-40) is prohib.

Soviet machine guns and Dragunov sniper rifles are chambered for the 7.62x54R round, but they're prohib in Canada.
 
Good call on the Winchester lever gun. I bet that thing is pretty damn mean, not to mention expensive IF you can find one.
 
a 1 second search from Wikipedia gave me this:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62×54mmR


Rifles

* The various Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifles including the sawn-off "Obrez" pistol.
* The American Winchester Model 1895. Approximately 300,000 made for the Russian army in 1915-16.
* AVB-7.62
* AVS-36
* Dragunov sniper rifle (including Chinese NDM-86 variant).
* JS 7.62
* SVT-38 and SVT-40.
* PSL sniper rifle.
* M91.
* Berkut-2M1
* IZH-18MH
* SV-98 (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Model 1998)

Machine guns

* 2B-P-10
* Degtyaryov machine gun (DP28) / (RP-46)
* DS-39
* Fedorov-Shpagina Model 1922
* GShG-7.62 machine gun
* Hua Qing Minigun
* Kucher Model K1
* Madsen machine gun
* PK machine gun (also known as PKM).
* PM M1910
* PV-1 machine gun
* Slostin machine gun
* Savin-Narov machine gun
* SG-43 Goryunov
* ShKAS machine gun
* Type 53/57 machine gun
* Type 67 machine gun and Type 80 machine gun.
* Type 73 light machine gun
* Uk vz. 59
* Zastava M84
 
Also the Ross, as used by the Russians for biathlon:

BiathalonRoss.jpg
 
120 years of service and still going strong, people say the AK47 and 762x39 have killed more people in the world than any other, i believe the 762x54r has that title, 2 world wars, a communist revolution, vietnam.....
 
Remington Rolling Block.
Want a really nice 7.62x54R? Get a Ruger No.1 in .308 and rechamber it.....
 
mhowarth said:
Good call on the Winchester lever gun. I bet that thing is pretty damn mean, not to mention expensive IF you can find one.
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Neat piece.:D built for the russians.

http://imageevent.com/willyp/russiansovietcomblocsection/russia/weapons/1895winchesterm1916

Grizz
 
There was a batch of these dumped on the surplus market in the 60s. Saw a quantity at Williams Gunsight in Michigan. They were really hurting.
 
The 7.62mm Model 1895 really should be fairly common: they were well over HALF of all '95 production..... which means that all the OTHER '95s are even scarcer.

That there are not more of them around is down to wartime attrition.

Either that or Ivan still has a warehouse full and is just waiting for the right time to sell them off.

Wish they would sell us back some of our Rosses. They got better than half of total 1910 production either by begging, borrowing or stealing. Don't think they ever actually BOUGHT any, but they sure ended up with a heap.
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Several target rifles used this round which was similar in power to a 30-06 in power, but ballistically excellent:
MTS-13 (looks like MU-13 on the rifle)
BI-7.62 (Nagant-actioned biathlon rifle)
Record-1 and Record-2 (in production now, but they are also chambered for .308 Winchester)
Strella
Typhoon (one of the versions)
 
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