Dirty Bob said:
TN:
Have you tried a Soviet Mosin or a Swiss bolt-action? Some of the military bolts are capable of better shooting than we may think and are very inexpensive!
Milsurps are one of my great loves - a year and a month until I can get my C&R license, although by then I'm sure most all of the milsurp deals will be long-dead
I have three Mosins already, all Soviet. I'm planning to get a Finn before too much longer - I love the finish on the stocks and the sights look like they'd be much more conductive to precision shooting. My run-of-the-mill Mosins can already tag shotgun shells at ~150 yards all day long.
I'd also love a K-31, but at this point in time the ammo is prohibitively expensive ($0.10/rd surplus is right up my alley; $0.50, not so much) and as I've pretty much self-taught myself everything I know about firearms, I don't feel that I'm "worthy" of such a fine shootin' iron yet - need someone to teach me how to properly clean a rifle first.
I can see myself gouging up the rifling or screwing up the crown. It's not so much a concern with Mosins or modern rifles, but I'd feel horrible about marring a K-31 considering how scarce they're getting and the craftsmanship involved in the first place.
Great-grandad taught me the basics on a little old BB gun when I was 4-5, then died a few years later. Dad took me shooting now and again, but wasn't around most of the time, and he's something of a Fudd when it comes to guns anyway (WD-40 as a lubricant, .45 will blow a man across a room, etc. etc.) - he likes 'em well enough, he just doesn't really know (or try to learn) anything about 'em.
There's still a lot I don't know, or that I've taught myself to do, perhaps improperly.
