I haven't had a chance to shoot it as of yet. If you want to learn about them, there are lots of websites out there (the Google is your friend).One thing impressed me though: For open sights (post and notch) , they seem to be amazingly fast. The front sight has a hood on it and when I bring the rifle up to my shoulder, the rear sight bisects the circle on the front sight and the notch lines right up with the post. It's almost like a shotgun for snapping it up to my shoulder.
I don't know of a military rifle cartridge that has a longer lifespan than the 7.62mmx54R cartridge. It is still the primary Russian sniper cartridge, used in the Dragonov rifle and it is used in the several Soviet and Russian medium machine guns.
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Nice old guns, aren't they?
It seems to be a good, solid gun. Maybe some day I can take it somewhere and shoot it.
Nice rifle, just curious how much power that cartridge has, since I've never actually seen one (back when I was immersed in gun culture we were still fighting the Evil Empire in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, and Soviet-bloc weapons weren't very easy to get).
I do hope you're not one of those people who goes into the back-country and shoots up old mining cabins and such. We joke about the "Panamint Metal-boring Termite" because the assholes keep shooting up our steel-siding-clad outbuildings and cabins under the assumption that they're abandoned since they're on BLM land. Uhm, no. They're part of valid mining claims. They're used only during mining season (which varies depending upon the price of gold, the weather, the need to get the annual assessment), and okay they're not in the best of shape, but shooting the crap out of them REALLY makes them not in the best of shape.
Too bad AOL quit shipping out CD-ROM's. I have some with some shotgun pellet holes in them. Made rather low-speed skeet, but somehow was quite satisfying nevertheless :-).
I shoot either on ranges or on private property with the permission of the landowner.
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