Mosin-Nagant M44

Hello Sgt.Schlitz
Nice Mosin-I have a 91/30 and and it holds 1 inch groups at 100 yards. I have shot the 44 before and I agree that it kicks like a mule. The reason it shoots better with the bayonet deployed is because the bayonet picks up the vibration from the barrell when the round goes off allowing for better accuracy. If you reload for this I have a good recipe.
PJ

 

hey I have fired an m91/30 and depending on how tight you hold it into your shoulder the less recoil there should be the only reason m44s kick so bad is because they are shorter

 

Good day folks, this is my first post here. I am an American and a proud
owner of a Russian Mosin Nagant m44 rifle. The thing is heavy, kicks like
a mule, but is a stunning tribute to simple rugged and extremely effective
Soviet weapons design of the era. I was hoping to take my rifle hunting
this winter but am having trouble with optics. i need a long eye relief
scope but i measured that i need about ten inches of relief, and i here tell
that will make optics very ineffective at range, in the odd event i even
find a scope that will work at all. i have aloso considered drill and tap to
mount a scope like it is on the classic sniper varient, like the rifle the great Vasily Zaytsev.Though WWII was a bloody and terrible peice of our history, it is my favorite era of history, followed closely by the American west circa 1800's.

thanks fer yer time y'all, and good day to you!

 

hmm, my best bet is that it was made to be more light than the regular Mosin-Nagant. But the mosin-nagant was already pretty light. hmm, intresting.

 

Just found an excellent site for the Moisin-Nagant, quite interesting:

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The Mosin Nagant is not a light gun.

 

your right its not the m44 was not meant to be lighter it was meant to be used for urban fighting because it was shorter

 

The M91/30 weighs about 8.75 lbs, less bayonet. The M44 weighs about 9 lbs due to the permanently attached bayonet and hardware. The M38 carbine weighs about 7.5 lbs.

The SMLE rifles all weighed around 8.75 lbs, with the Jungle Carbine, the Mk5, was about 2lbs less.

So the M-N rifles weighed about the same as the Enfield rifles. The Jungle Carbine was admittedly lighter than the M-N carbines, but it was not generally a success and production of it ended in 1947.

The greatest advantage the Enfield had over all the other bolt actions was the 10rd magazine capacity.

tom