I have only one of half a dozen or so Mosins (91/30's, an M38 and an M39) left since I discovered the K-31's. Even firing handloads through my Mosin's, they didn't even come close to the K-31's firing GP-11 milsurp ammo. As a handloader I can say without hesitation that the GP-11 ammunition is as accurate as my most carefully crafted handloads using match bullets. But, the GP-11's 174 gr. bullet at 2540 fps is a teeny bit much for an 80 round High Power match..
I have a 600 yd. range here at my house and I tried my "match" K-31, with it's aperture front and rear sights, using GP-11 at that range on the 36" target. It took a me a bit to get the wind doped and get 10 shots on the target, but here's what she did firing prone, without a rest:
In our local competitions I fire cast bullet loads exclusively and the ol' girl has fired same pretty impressive targets:
All these were fired in competition in the Prone Rapid fire stage:
Another 100 yard-er fired here at the house with my cast bullet load:
Here's a 100 yd. target fired from the bench with GP-11:
For its quality the GP-11 really isn't all that expensive at about 50¢ per round. (That's only $10 per 20 rounds)
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