Mystery Mosin
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PerversPépère
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Shawinigan (Quebec)
Went this afternoon with a Chatellerault action M-91 topped with a 1943 Tikka barrel and a 1941 Sako straight-stocked M-39.
Had about 100 once-fired NNY brass to fireform so I was hoping to find enough time to shoot a few dozens before targets plunge in deep shadow at the 100 m. mark and my front sight gets hit by glaring sidelight.
But this was not counting with two of my friends yakking it up on the firing line.
When they finally concluded, light was horrid and the slightest mirage from my barrel was blurring my front sight.
I managed to keep my groups in the black and got some nice 9/16" three-shot clumps but there were always two flyers to ruin the works...
Besides being great pieces of history, those old Finns can be very good shooters if you feed them what they like.
Keep what you have preciously. That rifle has passed through two great conflicts and uncounted small wars to end up in your hands.
You are very lucky.
PP.
Had about 100 once-fired NNY brass to fireform so I was hoping to find enough time to shoot a few dozens before targets plunge in deep shadow at the 100 m. mark and my front sight gets hit by glaring sidelight.
But this was not counting with two of my friends yakking it up on the firing line.
When they finally concluded, light was horrid and the slightest mirage from my barrel was blurring my front sight.
I managed to keep my groups in the black and got some nice 9/16" three-shot clumps but there were always two flyers to ruin the works...
Besides being great pieces of history, those old Finns can be very good shooters if you feed them what they like.
Keep what you have preciously. That rifle has passed through two great conflicts and uncounted small wars to end up in your hands.
You are very lucky.
PP.
Went this afternoon with a Chatellerault action M-91 topped with a 1943 Tikka barrel and a 1941 Sako straight-stocked M-39.
Had about 100 once-fired NNY brass to fireform so I was hoping to find enough time to shoot a few dozens before targets plunge in deep shadow at the 100 m. mark and my front sight gets hit by glaring sidelight.
But this was not counting with two of my friends yakking it up on the firing line.
When they finally concluded, light was horrid and the slightest mirage from my barrel was blurring my front sight.
I managed to keep my groups in the black and got some nice 9/16" three-shot clumps but there were always two flyers to ruin the works...
Besides being great pieces of history, those old Finns can be very good shooters if you feed them what they like.
Keep what you have preciously. That rifle has passed through two great conflicts and uncounted small wars to end up in your hands.
You are very lucky.
PP.
Thanks! I have 2 of these. The other is a VKT 1940 M91 on a Westinghouse reciver. It shoots just as good. For some reason it kicks way more than the Tula
or maybe its just me
PerversPépère
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Shawinigan (Quebec)
We're in the process of organizing a friendly shoot sometime in the upcoming summer.
Many guys of the Quebec's Extreme Precision website will show up so I told them I'll give myself a slight handicap and only bring some of my best shooting Mosins (with selected ammo, of course) against their ultra-precision rifles.
Since this will take place on a 100 meter range, I have good hopes of showing some of them what an 110 year old "Finn-improved tomato stake" can do to a good target...
Eh-eh!
PP.
Many guys of the Quebec's Extreme Precision website will show up so I told them I'll give myself a slight handicap and only bring some of my best shooting Mosins (with selected ammo, of course) against their ultra-precision rifles.
Since this will take place on a 100 meter range, I have good hopes of showing some of them what an 110 year old "Finn-improved tomato stake" can do to a good target...
Eh-eh!
PP.
