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Angus WAS going to go hunting with it extended, but I told him to keep it stowed. As it turned out the danged deer came up close enough, he probably could have skewered it!

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There are two that are basically the same rifle, if i remember correctly. The m38 has a fingergroove stock, no attached bayonet. The m44 no fingergrovve, and attached bayonet. It is designed to be fired with the bayonet extended. Or it is exactly the reverse.
They are pretty good thumpers. Almost as much thump in your shoulder as the 91/30's which are cut down straight pulls from WWI.
A few years ago you could buy real nice mosins in the wrapper that came in as i understand it from soviet georgia. They were arsonel redone and stored away. About 69 bucks at the time.
the finnish mosins are another story, they are as good or better than the swedish mausers.

I bought one of the $90.00 Nagants at Fleet Farm. Just because. Once I got all the grease cleaned out and started playing with it, I was pleasantly surprised with how well it shot. Maybe one of these days when I get real ambitious, I'll cut it back, recrown it, chop the stock and make it a little more serviceable as a backup gun. Did anyone ever try one of those drop-in scope mounting kits that replace the rear sight? Worth the time or not?

I would not be afraid at all to hunt with my Mosin! For some odd reason I am very deadly with my M44. It fits me well and I shoot it better than some of my other rifles. Benchrest accuracy no, but killing things accuracy to pretty far out. And yes it does shoot better with the bayonet out.. I scoffed too until I tried it...

3300 fps with a 125gr

Well the finns had problem with the russians, and they used hex recievers off captured rifles, replacing just about every thing else. I have a finn mosin, with a SAKO barrel on it, free floated, ajustible sights and so on. When i first go it, i swabed out the barrel, nothing else, and loaded five rounds of russian mil/surp. gallon red folgers coffee can at 100 yards, five rounds, hit it every time, offhand.
The problem is like a lot of mil/surps, how in spec it is, they were often used hard. The other is crud mil/surp ammo. Put good ammo in it with the projectiles sized to the barrel, different story. It's somewhere between .308 and 30.06 in power.

with that axle grease they put in those rifles, a good cleaning is very important, particularly in the bolt, firing pin, areas and chambers. A lot of malfunctions can be traced to that.

carried it a few times but never seen deer.

I would take my 8X57 Mauser over any Mosin. The bolt on the one Mosin that I owned would seize after every shot. I had to open it with a hammer. It may have been the exception but it ruined Mosins for me.

First time I heard that happening to a mosin.

That seems to be due to a chamber that needs cleaning/polishing. I've had a number of Mosins and the Finns are definitely the nicest. Very smooth, at least those I've seen.

Really? Seems to me that about 1 out of 10 need a whack with a 2x4 to unlock the bolt.

2 That I've owned were that way.

Both had a couple of small burrs in the chamber that dug into the brass when fired, making rotation of the bolt difficult.

Once those small burrs were polished out with a dremel bonnet, bolt rotation was positive.

Would like to know how the burrs get in the chamber to begin with...

Best $60.00 I've ever spent. Loudest rifle I've ever fired.

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Has anyone tried one of the scope mounts that replaces the rear sight? Do they work or just a waste of time?

Has any of you guys tried the Winchester 180gr soft points on game?

Unless you could get some rounds loaded with ttttttsss sssxx bullets it would be usless.