I wouldn't hesistate to take a Mosin out to hunt. My M39 is 1-2 MOA at 100 yards but never count a Carbine out either.

My M44 at 50 yards

Bought my M44 a few years back for $75,the bore is in excellent shape but the original stock finish was in bad shape. I finally broke down and refinished it this year and added and S & K scope mount,my older eyes just don't see the irons at distance well anymore.

While I was at it I floated the the barrel and bedded the action and it now shoots 5 shot cluster all touching with my cast bullet loads at 50 yds. Can't wait to get to the range to try out some of my J bullet hand loads at 100 yds.

Nice work on the stock.

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I normally throw a fit over people not leaving Mosins original....but that wood sure is purdy. LOL

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i agree.. she is purdy

Thanks guys,I use denatured alcohol and 0000 steel wool to remove the old shellac,never had to touch the exterior wood with any sandpaper. I applied two coat of rub on Minwax Red Mahogany 225 and let it dry about 12 hrs. between coats then finished it off with five coats of fast drying satin poly. It was amazing all the different marking that had been covered up by multiple coast of shellac.

The old girl shoots good as well.


All the Mosin fans might be interested in this article on WWII Sniper rifles. It starts on P.52 http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/...GUNS/GUNS0211/

thats pretty damn close to the what i did with mine but i used some kinda orange stripper and walnut minwax. The stamps on the wood all survived

It is about 300FPS faster than the 308 yes it will make a good deer gun. Looks like you know how to shoot a very good grope how Meany yards was that? But do not use a mil round for deer hunting. GOOD LUCK

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That groups was my first cast bullet test loads shot at 50 yds. MV was around 1600+ fps. it's just a cheap plinking load that can be used or small to med. size game.

I've hand loaded for the 54r for several years,back before good reloadable boxer primed brass or ammo was available I pull FMJ surplus ammo bullets and replaced them with a good quality .311 jacketed SP bullet and made my own hunting ammo. Of course it not as simple as pulling the old bullet and replacing it with a new one there are certain things you need to do,but it will work with brass and steel case berdan primed surplus ammo if that's all you have and a box of SP bullets.

Some old ammo I reworked from L to R Bulgarian HB surplus,FMJ replaced with Hornady .312 174 gr. RN,Bulgarian LB,FMJ replaced with 150 gr. Tracer,FMJ replaced with Speer .311 150 gr. SP.


If you have the reloading tools and you find yourself in a survival situation and all you have is the FMJ surplus ammo you can pull and reverse the bullet which give you an open flat base bullet that similar to a flat nose bullet. The British call this a Dum-Dum bullet and Elmer Keith used it quiet a bit back in his day The Box O' Truth #50 - Shooting Bullets Backwards - Page 1