Mosin Nagant at 300 yards

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I took the Mosin last week and the old girl (1942) still shoots pretty good. I was hitting things at 300 yards prone and standing at 100 yards.

I thought to myself a soldier that got to live long enough to understand how his/her rifle worked had a good weapon in the Mosin Nagant.

Mine shoots high to the right with the bayonet on and shoots really high to the right with out it.

I'm just an average shot with open sights and this thing just shoots for effect if not groups. The Chinese ammo does bind in the mag.

I may have to try 500 yards in the coming weeks.

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I will get some Privy ammo and give it whirl at 300 then 500 yards. Thanks for decoding the ammo. THe cheap ammo matches the sights nicely I set those open sights to 300 and they were close enough. Cleaning the rifle feels like a chore. Every patch you think is the last just loosens up more carbon.
 
I loved the Mosin design. I owned 6 of them over the years. All of which I shot a lot.
The only issue I had with them is spinning the roulette wheel of accuracy on them every time you bought one.
I've seen the best looking ones that wouldn't do less than a sewer lid size group at 100 meters and some beat to s**t ones put 5 rounds of Comm Surplus in a 4 inch circle at 100 meters.
The last one I owned, I tweaked slightly to squeeze out accuracy, ie bedded the action, recrowned the muzzle, modified the trigger and opened up the rear sight notch and then filed down the front sight post.
It would shoot very well but I long since have migrated to more accurate modern guns. I sold her and I regret it a bit sadly.
Will always hold a place in my heart for the Mosin Nagant though :D
 
I strongly suspect the width of your front blade will be a big factor when you try at 500 yards/meters.

When shooting the stock surplus Garand at 400 yards with the regular blade, (0.075) three of us had 50-50 strikes on a man size Fig #11 target from the supported prone.
Once we substituted to a match front blade, (0.062) hits on the same target out to 700 yards/meters was common place.
And 400 was a snap.
 
If you can't see the target,you can't hit it.Simple as that.I have been lucky as I never had any that shot that shot worse than 2-2.5 inches at 100 yards.These were handpicked from crates for condition of course. Have several i kept [hexes] that still shoot 1.25-1.5" with PRC machinegun ball.and a Tula PEM ex-sniper 42 refurb........10/10 on the rare charts.........that shot .75"last time I took it out. I like to think of them as Russian center fire Cooeys...... Harold
 
Next time I can muster a day off when we can get the long range I will give her a run at 500 if the wind isn't crazy and when I get back home I will drink vodka either in celebration or defeat.
 
I think you are correct. I find looking down the sights of my brothers 1940 Tikka Mosin Nagant easier than my 1943 Tula ex sniper.
His Tikka has the sharp front blade for the front sight, while mine has the round hooded peg.
Even at 100 yards his is far easier to get the elevation correct.


Brutus said:
I strongly suspect the width of your front blade will be a big factor when you try at 500 yards/meters.

When shooting the stock surplus Garand at 400 yards with the regular blade, (0.075) three of us had 50-50 strikes on a man size Fig #11 target from the supported prone.
Once we substituted to a match front blade, (0.062) hits on the same target out to 700 yards/meters was common place.
And 400 was a snap.
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I try to take at least one deer with a mosin 91/30 each year. Hunting at the farm is quite hilly or well treed so 300 yards is most likely a maximum shot, but quite doable.

I find most Mosins shoot a bit high but can be quickly fixed with a small piece of tube or wire insulation extending the front sight by a millimeter or so. Other than small tweaking on sights and such the only other work I've done to a Mosin is a re-crown.

The Mosin shoots a decent hunting bullet and is well suite for our weather and any game we have.
 
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