Regarding the M.N. specifically, I can't own one. You see, I have this thing in my personality that wants to fix things up, and improve them. With rifles in particular, I can't leave well enough alone. The M.N. is too much fertile ground for the fix it mentality. I would spend money on it, and yet know all the while that I'm wasting my time and money. It's best that I avoid such enigmas.

I do like the 7.62x54R cartridge, so I recently acquired a barrel for the Encore with that chamber, and it is as excellent as I thought it would be. The cartridge itself allows me plenty of satisfaction, fixing it and making it better. It is wonderfuly accurate in the Encore, and a handloader's sweet spot cartridge. Lapua makes superior brass for the cartridge, and I have a bunch of it. But I also have a big box of Winchester brass, and it's good stuff. Really, this cartridge, in the right platform, is extreemly accurate, and very easily handloaded. It has proven to be versitile with a wide range of bullet weights. I tested 123gr, 150gr, 174gr, & 180gr, (.311 & .312) and they were all accurate in a 10" twist barrel.

KB

Very interesting aboutyour Encore. I wish I had a Ruger No. 1 for it. I have a bunch of .30 barrel blanks. Maybe it is time to make one.

Bill Mullins

Go to youtube, search for the Nutnfancy project, Mosin Nagant.

He has a pretty good video on the shooting of the Nosin Nagant.

His other videos are fun to watch as well.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Very interesting aboutyour Encore. I wish I had a Ruger No. 1 for it. I have a bunch of .30 barrel blanks. Maybe it is time to make one.

I believe that it's a fact that the 7.62x54R is different from the 7.62x53R, the latter of which is a Finn cartridge, for a .308 bullet. I know for a fact that the 7.62x53R Lapua factory ammo is loaded with the 185gr mega .308 bullet. I have a practically new reamer specifically for the 7.62x53R, with a pilot for a .308 barrel.

As you know, the Ruger #1 is/was offered in the 303 Brit, which is real close ballistically to the 7.62x54R.

KB

Look, folks, I'm sorry I drifted this off into political territory. I did NOT intend to do so. I frakking well know is a sub-forum for that since I have posted there. My intent was solely to elicit information. IIRC, Kabluewy addressed and answered my specific questions when posted to a different thread.

I suppose that I was surprised at the vehemence with which the person calling himself Kabluewy attacked me. I did not even ask for information or opinions. I merely advertised for a person knowledgeable on the MN so I could take the discussion private as soon as practical. Not out of any need to be secretive but to spare the membership possible boring or tedious questions about a weapon some folks apparently find distasteful.

I apologize for allowing this thread to be hijacked by a person who, while unquestionably very experienced and highly knowledgeable, none the less is so insecure that he feels driven to hijack threads in order to attack "noobs" apparently in order return the drubbing given him by .22WRF when HE was new.

Sirrah, I did not threaten you. I certainly owe you no debt of honor. Would I be the tiniest bit sad were you to be caught unawares in the cataclysm I believe to be coming. NO! I, too, am a son of the south. My direct line arrived in what is now Pickett County, Tenn. around 1740. Your actions in this thread are more nearly those of white trash than a southern gentleman.

Oh, and, Kabluewy, any moderately educated person would be aware that the possessive form of my family's name would be "Mullins'" not "Mullin's". The latter would be the possesive of the family name of the Mullin family.

To The Moderators: Please lock this thread (after the one calling himself Kabluewy's wise ass retort, of course). As OP I would hope I have the right to request that a thread I started be locked.

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Originally posted by Jpat:
WTF is wrong w/ you guys? Talk about trashing a thread. You should be ashamed!

OK, you want to know? We have been in communion by PM, inspiring each other, writing poetry and discussing life. I was feeling so unappreciated and all. The conversation produced a simple poem, which may be worthy to share at the risk to spoil a good MN thread.

How can one know the value of light,
Until he is stranded alone on a remote beach all night;
Understand enlightenment forsaken,
'till the fog lifts and his mind awaken;
Know the value of peace, benevolence and kindness,
with no perception of hate or war's darkness;
Appreciate warmth, having never known cold;
Thwart fear having never been bold?

How can a man love if not loved, as a child;
Feel primal wilderness, if never camped in the wild;
Know faith if not taught virtuous roles;
Dream and have no goals;
Journey with no destination;
Promise with no obligation;
Have a friend and not be a friend;
Value and have nothing to defend;
Enjoy Thanksgiving day, family tables of food aplenty,
And not pray, for the world’s hungry children, so skinny;
Understand Aristotle’s Golden Mean,
With no knowledge of virtue and vice extreme?

Barleycorn sights on mausers are not much fun. Mosin Nagant sights are much better and start at 100 meters. A lot of mausers start at 200 or even 300 meters.

I have both. The mauser is more fun to shoot, most of the time.