Picknlittle
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Well I finally got to feed the Mosin some burllets today.
This is one fun rifle to shoot. You know you're arrived when the big pistol shooters come 35 stations down the line to tell you it's loud!
I put a slip on Decellorator recoil pad on it, actually more for the additional stock length than for the recoil, but I will say that with the pad, this thing shoots sweet.
I made a series of mistakes though.
1. Since I do not own bi-nocs or a spotting scope, I should have taken a scoped rifle along for sight verification.
2. In respect to mistake #1, I should have set up at 25 or thirty yds first to find out where it was shooting. (I went straight to 100 yds) dumb, dumb, dumb!
That's all the mistakes we'll talk about for now.
Based on visual impact info I thought I was seeing, I wasted some 40 rounds without ever hitting paper. (This is embarrassing, but I'm a big boy who wasn't smart enough to figure out that what I thought I was seeing was an illusion.
Finally a neighboring shooter asked me to move over to one of his 50 yd targets to see where we were. Way low and hard left! I didn't had tools with me (mistake #3) so there was no drift to move the front sight. I adjusted the rear sight and made a correction to the to my sight picture to compensate for the front. Finally,..bullseye! Back to 100 yd target.
After another small elevation adjustment I'm on paper well enough to actually form a group. Just over 2 inches but still left. I'll be back later this week with at least three mistakes fixed tio try again.
I can tell you now though,...I'm hooked on these old milsurp guns!
While I was there a young fella and his pretty young bride came in with two 91/30 Nagants. They were pristine! His was purchased that way, her's was resurrected from the grunge factory. Very nice pieces.
I am convinced that the gun is capable of much tighter groups, but better eyes will be necessary. It will bwe a tremendous source of fun though.
This is one fun rifle to shoot. You know you're arrived when the big pistol shooters come 35 stations down the line to tell you it's loud!
I put a slip on Decellorator recoil pad on it, actually more for the additional stock length than for the recoil, but I will say that with the pad, this thing shoots sweet.
I made a series of mistakes though.
1. Since I do not own bi-nocs or a spotting scope, I should have taken a scoped rifle along for sight verification.
2. In respect to mistake #1, I should have set up at 25 or thirty yds first to find out where it was shooting. (I went straight to 100 yds) dumb, dumb, dumb!
That's all the mistakes we'll talk about for now.
Based on visual impact info I thought I was seeing, I wasted some 40 rounds without ever hitting paper. (This is embarrassing, but I'm a big boy who wasn't smart enough to figure out that what I thought I was seeing was an illusion.
Finally a neighboring shooter asked me to move over to one of his 50 yd targets to see where we were. Way low and hard left! I didn't had tools with me (mistake #3) so there was no drift to move the front sight. I adjusted the rear sight and made a correction to the to my sight picture to compensate for the front. Finally,..bullseye! Back to 100 yd target.
After another small elevation adjustment I'm on paper well enough to actually form a group. Just over 2 inches but still left. I'll be back later this week with at least three mistakes fixed tio try again.
I can tell you now though,...I'm hooked on these old milsurp guns!
While I was there a young fella and his pretty young bride came in with two 91/30 Nagants. They were pristine! His was purchased that way, her's was resurrected from the grunge factory. Very nice pieces.
I am convinced that the gun is capable of much tighter groups, but better eyes will be necessary. It will bwe a tremendous source of fun though.