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Rainy day yesterday so I went to the range for a while, brought the sand bag with me and shot from a sitting position at a table. Absolutely amazed with this Mosin. I'm admittedly getting to be much better with irons since I've had about 150 rounds of practice, but yesterday I was just nailing this 200 yard target (8"x12" steel) 3/4 times consistently, and with rapid fire trying to get the rifle nice and toasty since I was a bit cold . There's also the 5" steel plate on the far left. It took me about 5 tries, but I did manage to nail that too, and later in the day got 2 more hits on it, and plenty on the big one. I then tried to challenge myself and loaded up 5 rounds, free standing not leaning against anything, managed to get 2 hits on the big plate at 200 again. Look for ward to bringing this to the game-lands next week and trying it at 300. I think she's still a great shooter!
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nice!! My M39 still shoots high at 200 yards. Which means I can still see what I'm shooting above the sights!! lol I need to get back to the 200 yard range.
You hit the secret to it! Patience and practice is what it takes. Many of us weekend shooters walk on to the range with a new to us rifle and expect instant success. It just doesn't happen that way, at least not to me. I find that about the 3rd trip I start figuring out what I am doing wrong or right. Sometimes I hit rifles I just can't hit anything with but someone else pics it up and can't miss! That is a very disappointing feeling but it does happen and should be expected and tolerated I guess. Bill
I actually like that it hits high. I had the rear leaf on the 200 setting and the front post is an 8.0mm (was a 7.9mm but struck through and replaced by finns). What the high hits let me do is line up my sights right under the target, as if I was resting the bottom of the target on my sight picture, and it will hit roughly 3-4" high. This made hitting the large plate a breeze, and the smaller one was more of a challenge, but 3 hits on it throughout the day left me very happy. I think they are set up this way so that soldiers could aim at the waist-line and hit their targets in the stomach/heart, but have a rather unobstructed view of the target as well. I HATE rifles that shoot low to the point where your POI is not visible from your shooting position. Shooting was done using surplus 147gr from factory 60, wherever that is.
Im using 180gn Seĺlier and bellot in FMJ and its going quite high so its must bd a common trait in thd calibre/rifle. A couple of weeks back I managed to get on to a 12inch target at 380 meters. The target was of a brush turkey silouhette. My site was set at about 275m (3/4 between 200-300 on the sight) and I was still finding an aim point at the bottom of the target.
. There's also the 5" steel plate on the far left. It took me about 5 tries, but I did manage to nail that too, and later in the day got 2 more hits on it, and plenty on the big one. I then tried to challenge myself and loaded up 5 rounds, free standing not leaning against anything, managed to get 2 hits on the big plate at 200 again. Look for ward to bringing this to the game-lands next week and trying it at 300. I think she's still a great shooter!
