Wait, no. He's not there now. He lives in Romania. Balls.
Any Romanians here around Ploesti willing to punch him in his big dumb mouth? Should I get on the line to the USAF? Those guys know their way around Ploesti...
e: http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmoID01.htm Yours would be the third down. If you ever find any of the ShKAS stuff, well... party times. Those are for aircraft MGs. You'd want to check pressures though to make sure they wouldn't fuck your rifle (don't shoot heavy ball!)
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I always check the headstamps on any cartridge I get, dunno why but I just do. And I would find it odd for ShKAS rounds to be loaded onto clips, just saying. Also for sure one of those rounds I will be getting will be saved and displayed in my collection of "7.62x54mmR" line up.
Fuck
I have all this 8mm Yugo ammo, and have been planning on buying an M24
But for that price I practically can't resist buying that Mosin ammo. On clips? $130n for 600?
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Also that guy sounds hilarious Ross lol. Obviously a customized sporting rifle is going to be more accurate than a old mil surp rifle. The difference being that the sporting rifle is going to be ungainly, heavy, and far more fragile than a Mosin or K98 or M1903 ever will be. Thats the point of a custom sporter. Its for sport.
How do you think I felt Tyrant ha, I got a crate and after S&H (urge fuck I hate those charges) it was $160.94 so it aint half bad at all.
Fucking damn that's cheapOriginally Posted by Spartan094
Did it come with a can opener or not?
It's more of an 'if you find someone at a gun show with a shitload of red-tip they can't ID correctly' thing. As long as it can be done without risking damage to the rifle, I can imagine firing PZ out of a Mosin would be hilariously awesome.
Yeah, he's basically distilled Fudd. Loads of hunting and gunsmithing experience, so his only judgement of a weapon's worth is whether it's useful for hunting and target shooting. No appreciation for old milsurp stuff, because his only contact with it sounds like when people bought in a beautiful old rifle for "improving" into a DEER RAHFUL (fuck everyone who does this these days, seriously, there is zero excuse). No fucking humility because he is an old grumpy shithead who does one thing well and will not take anyone younger than him or from another aspect of shooting seriously (fuck, being 22 and getting even other collectors to take you seriously is hard at times).
He is literally that guy who sits at the range with his little weather station and humped-to-shit-and-back Swede Mauser complaining loudly when someone turns up with an AK and rips ten rounds into the berm. Or who gets up and leaves amidst a sea of passive-aggressive mumbling and cursing when he sees someone walking towards the firing line with an SVT-40, haha.
Lol. Yeah, but America does produce some really awesome sporting weapons for great prices. The difference being that they aren't shitting them out, and most don't have irons
Most of America's good stuff is overseas-made now, including pretty much all of Winchester's stuff and I believe Remington's as well.
Remington still makes their best guns here in the US
The Marlin XL7 is an excellent budget rifle thats made in the USA
Savage makes all their rifles in the States
IDK about Winchester and Browning (they're the same company) but I think theirs are made in Belgium. Not many are made anyways though, because FN refuses to sell legit Winchester rifles (levers I mean) at any kind of reasonable price.
Winchester went to Japan quite some time ago, as did Weatherby (for all intents and purposes, Weatherby and Howa rifles are the same - they're made in the same factory far as I know). Browning was Belgium for most of the 20th century, but if it's the same as Winchester I expect it would be in Japan too. As for Remington, I've heard their QC has basically gone off a cliff lately, and I'd be inclined to believe it. The usual bullshit of "pay more for less" and all that.
As far as hunting rifles go, I do need one. Neither of my rifles are suitable for hunting animals as they were designed to hunt fascists instead, and shooting them is a bit legally questionable these days (also I am not inclined towards wishing harm against other people, even awful ones!) so that is out. I'd actually really like a pre-'64 Model 70 or a 1903 Schoenauer carbine with all the options, though the latter will be expensive as all fuck anywhere let alone here. I did see a Schoenauer at the last gunshow I went to, but it didn't have the double-set triggers or the full stock. One of the guys on TFR got one with both of those as well as a full-length rib and an old aftermarket Lyman peep sprung to swing out of the bolt's way, and, well...
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Rifle just oozes class.
e/ too lazy for shot tags and they're only 1,024 so deal with it, anyone running a res where that's a problem needs to get with the times
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