Recent content by Stavrogin

It's easier to aim for the belt line than, say, the middle of the chest, because the irons will obscure everything below the POA. The less you obscure( ie, the lower your POA on a human silhouette), the easier it is to obtain a sight picture.

I keep hearing this, but it doesn't make sense to me; why would the Russians make a rifle shoot correctly at 300M when the sight is set for 100, when all the while the sight itself actually HAS a 300M setting? Why wouldn't they just sight the rifle correctly, and tell their soldiers to leave the...

We all know Mosin Nagants shoot high, bu I'm curious to know just HOW high the average one shoots. So, instead of stating what we've heard the average to be, why don't we all divulge how high our particular rifles shoot? For consistency, we'd need to set parameters, so let's say 100M (109 yards...

Wow... I didn't expect this many responses. But this is a fun discussion. The "penk" I mentioned in the original post is the sound produced by my Mosin Nagant, on a steel plate maybe 1.5" thick, suspended on a rocker arm, at 300 meters. I think I remember it because it was so gratifying...

Just a fun question. My nomination is "PENK!"

Was out at the range again tonight and did some shooting with my Mosin-Nagant M91/30, and had some troubles. A couple of weeks ago I had this rifle out, and was able to produce a couple of 4-5" groups at 100M with the irons, well on target, after drifting the front sight post to the right (it...

I often wonder about my Mosin. It's nearly a certainty that it saw action in WW2. I don't take any particular joy in the idea that it quite probably took lives, but I do hold the rifle in some awe. The M91/30 is iconic; with that rifle, the course of history was wrestled out of the hands of evil...

WNTFW, thanks for the advice. Sounds like we shoot in a lot of the same ways; for years, all I ever shot was standing/offhand. And I think I actually still do better offhand with the air rifle than sitting. I'm sitting with my legs open, rather than cross-legged or ankled. Perhaps I could try...

Thanks, 35W and CoalDragger. I'll try that. Could it be that when I'm making NPA errors, I'm making the same errors every time? Would that be why my off-target shots are always in the same place? I thought I was being fairly aware of my NPOA, but does the prone position sort of "force" you...

Thanks, gamestalker. Whether this is actually a stability issue, a hold issue, a trigger issue, or whatever is still pretty unclear to me. The sight picture when I'm sitting looks nearly as solid and steady as it does prone, and it almost always looks good when the shot breaks. I'm almost, I...

Hey everyone. I'm trying to learn to shoot from positions well, and I'm finding a greater-than-expected difference between my prone shooting and my sitting. I'm hoping some of you here might be able to help pinpoint my mistakes. I'm posting this here instead of in the Competition shooting forum...

My M91/30 was my first centrefire, and is actually still my only centrefire. Went from an air rifle to a .22LR to that, so it sort of felt like taking a couple of steps up the recoil ladder at a time. It's a 1932 Tula hex receiver, but it looks like the whole rifle has been frankensteined...

You make a good point, Kozak. I started shooting with air rifles, and I actually got the Slavia to practice 10M competitive style shooting. That's what started it. Now I'm more into what you could call "practical" shooting and less interested in the rigid competitive forms, but I still love...

Hate you for the rimfires??? Your 452 is the most beautiful of the bunch. I have a 452 Standard (Trainer), and I love it; the Standard and the Full Stock are the only two with the curved comb, made for shooting with irons instead of a scope, and I love that stock style. My CZ Slavia 631...

Sorry, Taliv, just went back and read some more... was drifting in and out of the conversation a bit and missed a bit of what you were saying. In my case, when the bullets couldn't stay on the paper, I figured that it was pretty safe to assume that the problem was me, even if the rifle was 80...