| Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 02:15 AM |
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I bought this thing about a year ago and have only shot it 40 times. It has a great trigger but it has the Russian version of iron sights which are obviously meant for young Russians. As bad as the sights are the trigger on this particular rifle is good. It has only a little creep and a let off of 1 1/2 pounds and is very predictable.
I had shot it last week with cast bullets sized to 308 and the results were more than disappointing. A group so large it couldn't be measured.
A friend of mine gave me some bullets sized to .314 so I loaded them over 11 grains of Rex1 and fired them at the SR1 highpower target from sling supported prone. After 3 sight in shots the group was excellent, easily staying in the 6 inch black bull. The score was 177/2x including the sighters.
I also shot my 1903A3 with 120 grain cast bullets over 12 grains of Reddot. This was a very good group after 3 sighters. Nearly all were in the 3 inch 10 ring with only one obvious flyer an 8 at 7 oclock. The score was 186/4X including the sighters.
I have a new found respect for the MN after the group I shot with it this morning. This is a revelation to me as I had no respect for their potential before this morning.
This brings me to one of my pet peeves, trigger pull. I hear people all the time saying just let it surprise you. This is just wrong. If it surprises you that means you didn't know when it was going to go off. If you don't know your trigger well enough to know when it is going to go off then you need more practice.
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| Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 02:46 AM |
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They'll kinda grow on you. See if you can find a decent Finn, and you will respect them even more.
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| Posted: Tue May 26th, 2009 01:46 AM |
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I have decided I haven't given the guy I got my first MN44 from enough respect for his courage. Last week I gave my Romanian a good 4 day cleaning and it was very nasty.
I decided that maybe I should give my Russian 44 the same treatment. I have been cleaning it with Extreme Clean bore cleaner and every patch comes out bright blue. And this is after 4 days of cleaning. It seems there is 63 years of copper build up in the bore.
The young man I got the Russian from obviously never fired this thing before carrying it into combat because it was effectively a single shot because of a heavily pitted chamber.
So late on Memorial Day, Nuygen, I give you a hand salute. 40 years late I guess.
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| Posted: Sun May 31st, 2009 11:42 PM |
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I had loaded 83 rounds for the Romanian back in 03. The load was 46 grains of 2520, a Remington 9 1/2, a 146 grain 308 IMI bullet in a Lapua case.
I decided I would shoot these up to load cast bullets into. I shot the 83 rounds off the bench as quickly as I could single load them, aim and fire. The barrel and in fact most of the rifle got very hot. It was cooking oil out of the upper hand guard like crazy.
The 83 shot group was almost a perfect square. It measured 1 foot 6 inches with 2 fliers out the right side opening the group up to 1 foot 7 1/2 inches. The center of the group was 10 inches left of the point of aim.
Remember this barrel slugs 0.314".
On a side note I fired a 5 shot group with iron sights out my AR of 0.65". The load was 24 grains of TAC under an 80 grain Sierra lit by a Remington 7 1/2. Off the bench of course.
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