No! The 7.62x54R was always a smokeless cartridge. The 303 brit on the other hand was not always. Check out 7.62x54r.net for mosin nagant absolution!Hell, I dont care...interesting stuff regardless ( I had no idea Nagants started life as 'smoke poles')
Either I will tinker this rifle into a good shooter or I will find another.
Then I will take over the world
You are right. The original roundwas in the neighborhood of 220gn lead with nickel cupro jacketed round nose. This was lighted somewhat after experience in the Russo/Jap war. And all the mosin nagant variants have a 1:9 twist. Wich acording to my calculations make them fire a 180gn bullet fairly decently."There was no such thing as heavy ball when these rifles were being designed"
Oh yeah? The very first rounds adopted along with Mosins had
heavy (round nose on pix) projectiles. They were around 180, or even more.
"adopted at the same time" -- I'm talking about 1890s not 1950s or 30s.
And barrel twist AFAIK was not changed during modernization. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
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I'm using yellow tips most of the time and yes I have noted that probably their MG origin theory has some ground. However it has nothing to do with groupings.
Klunk
IMHO it does not really matter what ammo you will be doing you tests after accurizing. In mine Mosin it all gives comparable results. Expect the same.
yaa...those Finn M-91s shoot sweeet...
Maybe I should just put the PU on my M-39...would that be bad?
I know I can shoot good from a bench with irons so even 5" groups wont cut it.
Whichever 91/30 I end up using it HAS to shoot under 2 inches before I drop the coin on mounting this scope



























