WV Mosin-Nagant takes a trip to PA

**WVneighbor** · August 7th, 2009, 10:59 PM

My fiancee bought me a 1945 M44 for Christmas last year and while I have shot it, I haven't had a chance to work much on accuracy, until today. I thought you all might like to see what a 64 year old gun and 29 year old ammo can do. The common wisdom is to shoot the M44 with the bayonet extended, but after experimenting a bit, I found mine shot straight with the bayonet folded back. All these groups were shot with the bayonet folded back. All shots were at 75-80 yards.

This is some polish silver tipped ammo given to me by a generous young man I met at the range today. It is also my best 5 shot group of the day. I fired about a total of 100 rounds.

This is a 4 shot group. I knew I screwed up the flier as soon as I pulled the trigger. This was 1980 Bulgarian surplus ammo.

This was typical once I relaxed and figured out how the gun liked to be held and fired. I'm seeing a bit of vertical movement, which if I am remembering correctly means I need to work on my breathing a bit. This also was 1980 Bulgarian surplus ammo.

I'm pleased with the results, although my shoulder HURTS! But I'm grinning through the pain.

**Vig** · August 8th, 2009, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by WVneighbor

I'm pleased with the results, although my shoulder HURTS! But I'm grinning through the pain.

I hear ya on the shoulder, bro! I had my m44 out on Wednesday and I only shot 40 and I can still feel it. Your groupings look a helluva lot better than mine did, I was happy just to hit paper at 100 yards with iron sights.