Most accurate surplus 7.62x54r

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Hey! Just bought myself a Mosin Nagant. :dancingbanana:

I'm wondering if anyone has any info on what would be considered the most accurate and available surplus 7.62x54r?

Interested to hear some opinions, thanks!!
 
Phat Eagle said:
In my experience it completely varies rifle to rifle. That said, most of my 91/30s do quite well with Czech silver tip.
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Silver tip is light ball, and cooks along a few hundred FPS faster than the heavy ball, which was more common circa WWII. At 100m, I haven't noticed a difference, really, between most of the light and heavy ball ammo.

Past 100m, the heavy ball starts to win out. It also tends to follow the adjustments of the rear tangent sights better. I spent a lot of time going back and forth between Bulgarian silver tip and Chinese heavy ball last year in my Mosins and SVT, and found with all of them the heavy ball "tracked" with the rear tangent sights a lot better all the way out to 400m (the furthest I tested).

Accuracy for both was fine up to 200m, but at 300m and 400m, the heavy ball started to shine.

Your mileage WILL vary. These are old rifles, with varying degrees of wear in the rifling, and all kinds of differences that will affect accuracy (crown condition, stock bedding/warp, etc. etc. )

If you ask around, it shouldn't be too hard to get 20 or 40 rounds each of a number of different types (seems like everyone buy by the crate, so tends to have enough to spot/sell a 20 round pack), and you can go from there to figure out what works best in your rifle.

Cheers - enjoy the Mosin journey. One of the best bolt action deals going. Good rifles, accurate enough, indestructible, fires a round that puts the fear of God into all within hearing distance of the muzzle blast.
 
I've personally found the older Chinese surplus to be fairly accurate. It certainly stays truer to the sight markings on anything I've shot it through. A good friend of mine has a Mosin Sniper, and although none of us are great shot, with the Chinese surplus our groups are usually a couple inches better at 200 yards than with the Bulgarian silver tip. With that said, I prefer the Bulgarian simply because it runs better in my SVT, than the Chinese stuff does. I've also recently picked up some newer production Chinese Surplus from CanadaAmmo, and that stuff seems pretty good as well. I haven't shot enough of it to give a better indication than that, but hopefully in the coming weeks I'll get the opportunity to shoot more of it.
All that aside, like Phat Eagle said, it really varies from rifle to rifle. Basically beg, borrow, or steal some of each off your friends and test them out to see which you like best, and then buy as much of it as you can afford.
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Mine seems to prefer the Russian light ball . Shoots that better than Chinese surplus and even S&B commercial softpoints .
 
So pretty much, each rifle can preffer different ammo than the next.

Thanks for the replies, I'll buy some smaller ammounts of whats available and try it out.
 
I know it is not what you asked but reloading with hornady .312 diameter bullets gives excellent results as long as the barrel is in good nick. The narrow contour of the barrel is quite sensitive to small changes in powder charge however so running a ladder is the best way to get a good load.
 
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