i find it a bit long to walk around in the bush with, i have a scout scope mounted on it and i have already cut the stock so i thought i may as well cut off some of the barrel to make it lighter and maneuverable, i may even cut off more but it all depends on what kind of feedback i get from guys that have tried it, those carbines look really cool but guys are asking alot for them so i thought i would try and make my own. my annoyance comes from the fact that you get some guy on here that will ask a question and about 3-4 responses later you have guys trying to talk him out of it or the conversation morphs in to something else. ie:im hunting deer with a .223 blah blah blah, and then some yoko comes on here and says try a .308 and then another cowboy shows up and says "no no no get a 30-06" and so forth and then we get into ballistics of 308 and 30-06 and everyone forgets the original question.
mosin nagant barrel shortening
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i find it a bit long to walk around in the bush with, i have a scout scope mounted on it and i have already cut the stock so i thought i may as well cut off some of the barrel to make it lighter and maneuverable, i may even cut off more but it all depends on what kind of feedback i get from guys that have tried it, those carbines look really cool but guys are asking alot for them so i thought i would try and make my own. my annoyance comes from the fact that you get some guy on here that will ask a question and about 3-4 responses later you have guys trying to talk him out of it or the conversation morphs in to something else. ie:im hunting deer with a .223 blah blah blah, and then some yoko comes on here and says try a .308 and then another cowboy shows up and says "no no no get a 30-06" and so forth and then we get into ballistics of 308 and 30-06 and everyone forgets the original question.
Thats not what my m44 did. Mind you, it does have a fairly loose bore.
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Hey I have a polish m44. It was brand new when I got it. I took the wood and bayo off. Put it in an ATI synthetic stock. It made it into a handy little rifle. Considerably reduced weight. It's nice and short and compact. Great little bush gun now. The butt pad on the ATI stock is much more comfortable than the steel one. I did all this to lighten the rifle and to be able to keep the wood stock from getting beat up. I've been thinking about getting the scout scope mount too. How do you like it? I'm a shooter not a collector so I don't give a sh!t what they say. It's your $100-$200 gun do what you want and have fun. It will help if the rifling is worn near the end of barrel
