offthepaper
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I've recently joined a new gun club/range due to the fact that my old one burned down last Feb. This one is close to home and a much finer private club than the public range I previously belonged to, I plan to do much more shooting now. I have a small collection of Mosins 91/30's M44's, T53's, M38 (gotta get a M39!!!) and have realized that I, getting low on 54R. I guess I must have been living in cave or something, because I was a little surprised that when I started looking around that the Mosins are still available by the gazillions (cheap) but that the ammo was another story. Like I said, I had'nt bought any ammo since before last Xmas. It seemed to be everywhere, all flavors, at almost any website dealing with milsurps. Now it seems that all i see is a scattering of the Bulgarian light 147gr, and not a lot of that! I really don't want to buy the wolf or bear Russian ammo because of the cost increase over Mil surplus. Does anyone have a current knowledge or line on surplus 54R at a decent price. I want to learn to load later on, but that wont happen soon enough to get me on the range with my beloved Commie Clunkers (I do enjoy shooting them, despite their shortcomings and rough edges) nothing like the dwelling on the history of some of those rifles. So, can anybody help me feed the Ivans?