PTR 91 or Romanian PSL?

[Snakum]

Wow. I've been looking for a .308 lately and am surprised to hear about the surplus ammo issues and especially disappointed to read on the PTR site the suggestion that accuracy is 3" - 4". I have an AK that will best that with Brown Bear ammo (my 10/63 will, my WASR 10 and Maadhi won't). So I'm going to have to vote for the PSL. I'll bet most examples will do at least 3 to 4 MOA with good surplus 54R ammo, and it'll eat anything you feed it.

I mean really ... "Precision Target Rifle"? Just about any off-the-rack AR will shoot MOA or close to it. I think one might fully expect a "Precision Target Rifle" to do at least as good?

I still want an FAL style rifle, though. Because I don't have one o' those.

 

[stubbicatt]

I dunno guys. I've owned both, and sold the PSL when a cartridge case ruptured.

I too have experienced the PTR issues with surplus ammo. It turns into an expensive single shot rifle with a difficult to open bolt.

But since I reload my own cartridges, the PTR has proven to be accurate, reliable, and a whole lot of fun to shoot. The 22 long rifle conversion kit goes a long ways to making it fun.

It has been a few years since the PSL kaboom. I've thought and rethought that circumstance, and while I am not certain what happened, I've concluded that a safety sear is a necessary feature for these rifles. 'course if you install a safety sear (a/k/a "autosear") you get to go to prison, so...

The next thing I think would be to disassemble the rifle completely and make sure each and every round you intend to shoot will easily chamber in your rifle.

Like I said, I don't know what happened to cause the kaboom, but here are photos of the PSL case. The smuts blew out the magazine and bowed the top cover, and some got behind my shooting glasses and into my eye. It was not an experience I wish to repeat.



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Another view.

The PSL rifle was fun to shoot, but it wasn't all that terribly accurate. I suspect accuracy is dependent on too many factors for me to discount ALL PSL's or all PTR's one way or the other. I can say that my present PTR fairly regularly does 4 - 5" at 480 yards. The iron sights on the rifle are some of the best I've used, other than not being terribly adjustable.

YMMV.