I'm considering buying one to hunt with. Yay or nay..........pro's and Cons. Talk to me Goose.
Lots of people hunt with a Mosin. In fact, there's a show not NatGeo: "Life Below Zero" that highlights a few groups of people that live above the Arctic Circle. One of the families they follow, the Hailstones. The wife, Agnes shoots a PU sniper when she hunts Caribou and long distances.
I'd be perfectly happy to hunt with my Mosin - the only problem is being able to scope the rifle. I refuse to "bubba" a mosin, and I don't own a sniper. Iron sights on the mosins are only adequate, at best, for hunting.
I'd be perfectly happy to hunt with my Mosin - the only problem is being able to scope the rifle. I refuse to "bubba" a mosin, and I don't own a sniper. Iron sights on the mosins are only adequate, at best, for hunting.
I watched that show a few days ago. Agnes was shooting at muskrats and coulnt hit them to save her live.
Yeah, minute of muskrat vs. minute of Caribou is a little different.
Yes sir it is.
Makes sense, wimmenz can't shoot Mosins
That husband and wife duo, on that show are on gunboards and they hang out in the mosin section. A mosin would do just fine for deer hunting.
I gotta tell you, I have a mosin and bought a couple of those "scope mounts" on EBay and one wouldn't work and the other was stripped out. I guess I could go to Ace and look for a very slender bolt/nut to see if it'd mount but it's not worth the trouble unless I'm in the store anyway. I have the bent (crap can't think-I'm 70) bolt arm that seems to work very well. They are easy to disassemble and put back together. Rugged and shoot corrosive ammo unless one buys the more expensive food.
Don't forget the Russian women snipers during WWII. They have some kill counts that may still be records. If they've been broken it was only recently. One record I heard was 57 kills with 58 shots. Not bad stuff.
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