762 54R Ammo for Hunting

Butcherbill said:
I thought the same till I spent more time shooting a Mosin freehand, I find any milsurp with a metal butt plate to have more felt recoil when shooting from a bench. It’s a whole lot nicer when you’re shooting standing or kneeling and slung up tight.

I was bruised for a week the last outing with my 91/30 off the bench and it was only a box or two that I shot lol.
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I was shooting off hands kneeling and off the Primi stick. I also have a rubber recoil pad on my rifles. Still a ##### to shoot, lol!
 
Go nuts an buy the Lapua, for the price difference its well worth it. Hell at that price its a major steal. If you can make it to gunshows you can look for the Norma 150/180s, I picked up a box of 150s this month for 40$.
 
Painkillers said:
That's precisely what I was suggesting. While I hadn't anticipated the gas blowing the lead out through the jacket, which I suppose it's possible, I think that would be very unlikely. The main concern as I see it could be accuracy. Modifying the projectile could impart an imbalance to it, producing nothing but "flyers"?
If I had an old sewer pipe Mosin, I'd be doing some experimenting with the ball ammo rather than trying to locate hunting sp ammo.

I suppose my question was; should a game warden come across someone with downed Moose and Mosin in hand, if asked to show the ammo used, would modified ball ammo (if it even works), be legal in the eyes of the game warden, or is he going to be taking a position that it's ball ammo (prohibited for hunting with.)?
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It wouldn’t be ethical, the rounds won’t expand still and you won’t have a quick clean kill. Any animal shot deserves to at least have a humane death. You wont feel very good when you see the animal trot out of sight bleeding either.
 
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