Hunting with a Mosin?

I wouldn't be afraid at all to kill a deer with my ww2 sniper or my dragon how ever walking around with it is a different story, if your hiking very far I say go with a lighter gun

+1 yeah it's awkward, completely useless, and kinda of a bitch to engage. hahaha, I just use the good ole "finger" safety

twkremer:
My nice laminated (Izhevsk) MN 44 is just east of Memphis. The bore is not bright, but fairly shiny.
Don't want to sell it, but just might consider a trade for exactly 700 rounds of really good, reliable surplus Greek or British-made .303 ammo next year.
MN 44s are increasingly sought everywhere, and the Gander Mt. in Jackson has not received any 44s for a good while.
Met a guy from your area in Waverly (north of I-40) and bought his "cherry" combat rifle.

700 rds. of Greek or British-made .303 (POF is not reliable).

one of my goals is to actually take deer with my model1891 new england westinghouse this year ive worked up a load in some nosler brass and 165gr sp

I like the sniper version, and have hunted coyotes with it.

They let you know when you hit them with that round.

What is PT?

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Ponzi-Transducer.

"kinda of a bitch to engage"

Understated. It has simply the very worst, most pathetic unusable safety I have ever encountered. Horrible.

I know about 5 or 6 people who own a Mosin-Nagant, and not a single one messes with the safety on that thing.

Otherwise, great GREAT rifle. Simple, solid, and shoots really really well. Without offense, probably better than most of us here.

I took a M27 Finnish, built on a Nagant action, and busted a deer with it. Used irons, the sun was settling, and the poor deer was less than 20 yards away. I could not see the post, but I could see the deer framed in the "ears" of the sight protector, and the wings of the rear sight.

First shot was low in the chest, the deer jumped forward. I racked the bolt so fast my bud thought someone else was in the woods with a semi auto. Core separated from the second round as it went right up the hiney into the heart region. I was using Norma ammo.

Funny thing was, the floor plate was not securely latched. (burrs and rough service) Recoil from the first round unlatched the floor plate, it fell off and the loose rounds in the magazine tumbled to the ground. But, the top round in a Nagant is held up by the magazine interrupter. So I got the second round off.

Never did find the two empties. With Norma ammo costing about 3 dollars a round, I looked for my cases. Maybe they flew in a bird's nest.

Centuries from now someone will find those cases and wonder what the heck happened there.

Just like I wonder when I find flint projectiles in that area. Some caveman was cussing in the woods cause he lost his spear head. Fast forward four hundred years, there was a camo wearing troglodyte cussing as he looked for his lost Norma cases.

There are better choices but it will defiantly work. good luck if and when you do use it for hunting.

P.S. PT= a heck of a lot of running, sit ups, and push ups. (Physical Training)not sure if this was mentioned earlier.

If the Mosin couldn't kill it with bullets it could ugly it to death.

I actually like the safety on my Mosin. It's not as easy as flipping a switch like an AR, but just pull back and to the left, plus you can visually tell you're on "safe" just by looking at it.

The safety is not the problem everyone makes it out to be. Pull back, twist. It's on. Pull back, twist the other way. It's off.

The Mosin safety is probably one of the most secure ever designed. You can also take it off safe silently. No click at all if you do it right. If you can lug a 9 pound rifle through the woods and handle the recoil, I have faith that you can handle the safety.

Also, on ammo, anything that's not FMJ will work. There have been great advances in bullet technology, but whatever you get for hunting in x54R is going to be fine. SP, HP, whatever. 150gr at ~2800fps or 200gr at 2500fps will kill a deer unless you miss.

I think the argument that "the bullet only expanded to .337 caliber" or whatever is kind of rediculous. If it dumps 2500 ft/lbs in a deer in the kill zone...the deer dies.
RT

Check out this post by Cosmoline before buying your Mosin.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=335997&highlight=mosin+safety
RT

I took my M44 bear and deer hunting last season and plan to do it again. I didnt take anything because we didnt see much. But it worked great for me. However this year I will be putting on a scope. Its heavy but not a killer.

FMJ isn't legal for hunting. It can just bore a hole straight through without creating enough of a wound channel for a humane kill.
RT

And maybe a dumb question, but what's the problem with using surplus for hunting?

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In TN (and almost everywhere else in USA) you cannot use full metal jacket ammo for hunting. You must use expanding or soft point ammo. 99.99% of surplus ammo is going to be FMJ. I know they go over this in the TN hunter safety course.

Lots of major manufacturers make soft point ammo in that caliber. I'd find one and test it out. If it shoots well, then that is the one I'd use for deer.

http://www.midwayusa.com/browse/Bro...3&categoryId=7954&categoryString=653***690***

Here, any of the cheaper ones listed as Soft Point would be fine.