Rear elevation sight on Mosin, yards, feet, meters, what's the measurement?

[BigBlueEyedDevil]

I have a Big-5 M91/30. I'm going out shooting tomorrow morning and I was curious as to what the elevation marks on the rear sight are. It doesn't say whether they are in feet, yards or meters. My guess is meters, anybody? Tyler

 

[natedog]

Meters. Sights should be on with surplus ammo.

 

[BigBlueEyedDevil]

Meters. Sights should be on with surplus ammo.

That's what I thought, Thanks.

 

[Detritus]

Paces,

but Meters will do.....


seriously if you mean the full size M91/30 rifle (and the carbines may fall under this as well). the unit of measure used to graduate the sights is a "Pace" (can't remember the word in Russian right now been too long since i read the articles and books that mentioned this).

this i THINK would up being something like "a meter plus a little" but it WAS a standard set ubn stone measurement, for the Russian army and thus if you know what the marks equal you can aproxiamte where to put them for known, "modern standard" distances.

for this rifle things like "what unit of measure to mark the sights in" were decided during a time when most russians had little concept of what a "meter","yard", or "foot" was, at least not in the way we do now.

 

[Trebor]

I believe early Mosins are sighted in for "Arshins" which translates roughly as "Paces." IIRC, later rifle sights were calibrated in meters.

 

[thefitzvh]

Trebor, you are correct sir,

The mosins made pre-commie are done in that early stuff.

War manufacture stuff was changed to meters to comply with what everyone else was doing.


James

 

[foghornl]

On the early Mosin-Nagant series, the sights were calibrated in a measure called "Arshin" 400 Arshin (Arshins? Arshini?) is roughly equivalent to 312 Yards...