Besides, It's considerable fun to show up the modern rifle guys at the range with an "ugly" old Russian tent-pole that was made in the same year I was born! (1942)
A swamped barrel flintlock can have the most amazing balance, too. Nothing like it, apart from a really nice shotgun.
Franco, I gotta say it...How many times are you gonna post that same old pic before you take a new one?
BTW, the 7.62X54 isn't nearly as powerful as .308, it beats it. It's nearly as powerful as 30/06.
and chances are, when you shoot a mosin, you ARE shooting a rifle that was carried and shot by a man (or several) who died fighting for his country
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George Smith Patton
Voltaire said:The perfect is the enemy of the good.
your dislike of the Mosin is duly noted AB. however it was a good enough arm, that could be made cheap enough and quick enough to hold back the Hun.
that could be made cheap enough and quick enough to hold back the Hun.
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that could be made cheap enough and quick enough to hold back the Hun.
I don't think it did that in WWI.
Maybe the masses of peasants under totalitarian rule (ie slaves of the state), had a lot to do with it in WWII. I give credit to the fighting men and women, not some wonder weapon, which the Mosin is clearly not.
not to mention the crumbling Russian Empire would have far more effect on the war
right, because things were going swimmingly on the western front during that same war. the Brits and the French were totally not hunkered down in the same trenches
I find it repulsive for you to imply that the French, British and the other allies were not doing their part to defeat the
not to mention theres a million variants ranging in rarity to, by the crate load to "only 1 left in existence"