The 7.62x54r is still a viable caliber

close to state college.

daniel craig said:

True enough. It’s why I need to either start reloading or think about retiring the mosin for a caliber more easily found stateside. Here’s hoping trade sanctions lift so foreign surplus can once again become common, but if didn’t happen with a Rep. president it won’t happen with a dem.

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If a certain person becomes prez, it has already been promised by that person, that an executive order will be issued immediately to stop the importation of all arms and ammunition, especially milsurp. So depending on who one thinks will "win", one might want to get any and all milsurp ammo they may want or need....immediately. But with the panic buying, it's most likely too late.

Soft tip ammo by NORMA has always been spendy but quality is quite good!

TR

I load for my Mosins. Killed my first 2 deer with my New England Westinghouse M91. I was buying .311 HotCor Speer bullets for loading and they shoot great over IMR 4350. I was getting them for $9.99 a box of 100 (2005) so, needless to say, I shot a bunch of paper with them.

A very viable game round and will kill any herbivore in North America is put in the right place.

Via the Finn M-39, I used and still do sometimes, Czeck BXN 60's LPS 149 grn steel cored lacquerd steel cased corrosively primed milsurp to great effect.
The bullets tumble and stay together for a deep stab through Bears, Caribou, Muskox, ect. 100% effective.
The consistency makes that Czeck VERY accurate and very reliable, as long as you keep the chamber scrubbed, as the steel cases got 'sticky' after just a hundred or so rounds, when out plinking.

Hard to beat a bullet thats going where you want it.

remember that alot of mfgs still make 311-312 dia bullets for enfields. These bullets work VERY well in my 91/30 giving awesome accuracy. Plus there are cast, gas-checked bullet options that give a near jacketed performance as well. I'm very lucky in that I have an SMLE and Mosin that both enjoy the same diameter bullets.

Had good luck with .311" 150 gr. soft points by Privi Partizan in a 91/30. Fortunately I stocked up on last year before things got crazy. I also have a #4 Mk 1 Lee- Enfield so there's other bullets here that I haven't even tried in the Mosin yet. That's nice having some bullet commonality amongst different rifles.

1965tinman said:

Just read a article in a 1999 gun digest about sporterized mosins. It all started in the 1920s. Townsend Whelen got involved and started touting the rifle and round. They surmised it was going to die out because the ammo was drying up. There was a lot of interest due to Arms and the Man and then the American Rifleman. It was a great historical article.

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Here are a few pictures of a surplus Remington sporterized during the '20s like mentioned in the article..
I think the recoil pad was installed several decades after the sporterization.


Here is a pic of the grafted in blank to form the pistol grip a process mentioned in the article.


Nose cap and pistol grip cap made from automobile battery cases.


Number 5 Pacific sight on cocking piece


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