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Would you hunt wild boars and deer with a Mosin Nagant rifle?
I bought my Mosin Nagant WWII rifle 91/30, it's stamped 1943 and was manufactured in the Izhevsk factory of the Soviet Union, and I really liked it! I received it last Friday and I went yesterday to fire it at my local gun range. The recoil was hard (felt like a hammer hitting my shoulder bone) and it kicked like a mule, but I was surprised by its accuracy and that I didn't even have to adjust the iron sights.
If you had one of these and you went hunting, would you hunt wild boars and whitetail deer with the Mosin Nagant? How effective would this 7.62 X 54 R cartridge be on large game?
I bought mine for $70 from www.jgsales.com and I am impressed. This rifle is now my 3rd gun. I own a Bushmaster AR-15, a Rossi .38 special revolver, and now a Mosin Nagant WWII rifle.
It will be very effective on large game. The 7.62x54R cartridge is the Russian equivalent of the American .30-06 round and delivers very similar performance. The 7.62x54R will push a 150 grain bullet at 2,953 feet/second and delivers 2905 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle. Provided you use commercial ammunition designed for hunting (instead of military surplus full-metal jacket ammunition) its more than adequate to take any large game animal in North America.
The only issue I can see with using a Nagant for hunting is lugging the nearly 9 pound rifle over miles and miles.
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