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Some years back during my C&R days I picked up three; two carbines and an M39. The carbines were a bit snappy in recoil and good for perhaps 4" at 100 yds. The M39 was pretty decent, 1.5" at 100. Toyed with the idea of slugging the bore on the 39 and handloading for it, and is showed promise using com bloc ammo

Yep, the carbines are fun. Much more pleasant to shoot offhand than from a bench. They provide a hellish ball of flame around dusk.

When I was all so young, about 1961, my dad got the great Idea that I should learn to shoot, so dad being dad, never owned a gun or did any kind of hunting or shooting for that matter, bought me a Marlin Bolt 22 and a Mosin Nagant that came out of the armory in 1938. I still have both guns. The thing with the Mosins is that all they need is a little TLC. The Finn's rebuilt captured rifles and they are good ones. Mine is a carbine version. I would like to get a full sized one complete with a 3x PU scope and use it for deer hunting old gun style. Remington- Westinghouse made a bunch of them for the Czars Army during World War I and didn't deliver a bunch after the October 1917 Revolution. There were a lot of them around. I think Dad paid all of 8 dollars for mine, I know it was not much. its a fond memory of my youth. I even killed my first deer with that rifle, and it was only a few months after I got it, we didn't have a whole lot of deer around then. Snuck out Saturday while dad was giving my brother some lessons, I didn't expect to see anything and well this deer came by and I just brought the rifle up lined up the sights and well next thing I know I got this deer on the ground, and now what. My father didn't know what to do either, so he called my Uncle Felix , he was one of my mothers brothers and he took care of it and had me drink a shot, and put a tab of blood on my forehead and told me things would be different from now on. My that was 51 years ago. It would be a good 10 years before I would shoot my second deer in VT. One of the reasons I love 24 hr Campfire, I get to think about the days of my youth. In 67 months from that shot, dad would pass on. I was 12 and a 7 months at the time. The rest of the country was in a real crap fest in 1967 pretty much like the current crap fest. I'm just a whole lot older and maybe a little wiser.

Now we should be careful with all the new found love for the Mosin Nagant's Vadimir Putin will find out and jack up the prices the greedy spy that he is.