Mosin for hunting?

I have two 91/30s that are featherlite. Another, my third, weighs a tonne. Handle a few before you judge.
M38, for handiness when hunting though.
Don't cut up an M44 in order to achieve the same result.
 
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I have plans for something similar..already have a chopped action coming...and a Boyd's laminate is next on the list...I have no idea what type of scope to use yet...
 
I keep a Mosin behind the rear seat of my truck with MFS 203gr soft points on charging clips just in case I see a deer while doing something that I wasn't originally going to hunt for one. 3" at 100 meters. Can easily hit a deer in the lungs 200 meters away without a scope. Cheap gun so it don't matter if it sits back there all hunting season long.

If you have to start cutting it up to make it more suitable for hunting then you may as well just buy a Savage Axis and save yourself the trouble.
 
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1944 VKT M39 with Igman 150gr SP at ~90m. No heavier than the M14 I carried back in the day, and almost overkill on that button buck.

Joel
 
RobertMcC said:
Canadian Rangers carried No4 Lee Enfield.
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Because nothings more reliable - you can yank on the firing pin/cocking mechanism and make sure its moving in cold weather. if you have a misfire you can recock it without opening the chamber. you can see how the thing is working without much if any disassembly.
and you can pack clips :p. Great old bolt rifle.
65cutlass said:
The worlds largest moose was taken with the 303 here in the Yukon. So the Mosin would also be a good unit.
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I love my old lee 303.
It's a old gun my grandpa had with matching sn's and i've used it for hunting since I was young with great effect.
Eventually i put a synthetic stock on it just to keep the old wooden stock in good condition when i'm banging it around in the bush.
only thing that not so great about them is the mountability for scopes the mount that is on the market is (OK) but not great by any means and i could see it being flimsy if a screw backs off even a little.
With handloads you can also get great acuracy 150Gr loads @ like 2700fps or so which puts the gun into a more modern era cartridge.

Ganderite said:
If you want to buy a Mosin for hunting, but a M44. The carbine version. Take the bayonet off and you have a good hunting rifle.
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Yup i would definitely take a shorter version of anything if i had a choice with express purpose of hunting.
 
delavan said:
Hi,

Although I have a .22 and a shotgun, I never owned a rifle for hunting purposes. That being said, i never hunted either.

Im looking at those Mosins that sell for around $150 as a cheap, yet interesting to own rifle.

Does it makes a bit of sense? Im not planning on buying an more expensive Mosin sniper, just an iron sight 91/30. I live in the NWT, and if somebody offers me to go on a hunting trip, I could go with that Mosin and a box of hunting grade soft-tip ammo.

Your take?
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After practice you should be good. With my mosin and I can hit 2 inch groupings at 200-300 m If I focus. Once it heats up (After 5 or more rounds) it can get as bad as 3-4 tho or even off the paper if I run 30 or more. Mosins get hot as hell, Mine seems to lose accuracy after the first 3 shots as it heats up the grouping gets farther out. Also if you have to take aim again its hard to do with the mosin its so damn long and the bolts ussualy sticky so your all over the place with it. Stocks awkward but Its cheap to get practice as a hunting gun, It would be my top choice for this reason to hunt something like deer. I bought a new stock for mine and I love it now. Mine seems to shoot abit high so I have learnt to compensate for that by aiming just under my target.
 
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