Mosin Nagant two-fer

[VitSports6]

You should slug the barrel on the MN's as the Soviets weren't too fussy about things like specs and dimensions. I've heard a lot measure out to .310 and if that's the case will benefit from .303 handloads. Sort of like a Russian Enfield you might say.

I slugged my first Mosin for reloading, It measured out at .312, There was a post on 7.62 that some guy had measured a few different bullets and found that the Sierra .303 cal 180 grain Spitzer bullets measured .311 out of the ten or so he pulled to check, So I went with them.
I should check my M44, It will give me something else to do other than plink away on the computer.

[VitSports6]

Its a nice balmy 20 something deg. outside, So why not go take some pic's of the rifles?!?

In honor of Stalin's birthday AND the two year anniversary of my first MN purchase, I offer this picture along with a couple other rifles with Bayonets...



'42 Izhevsk 91/30
'44 M44
'43 M1 Garand
'11 DTI AR-15



Its tought to get the pic of all the bayonets with the 91/30 in there...