yea thanks r5c as well,
Alright fellas, the training has begun!!!
today was an learning experiance by itself for me. me and my buddy went up to the forest to finally try some longer shots with my mosin. i brought about 100 rounds of brown bear 185 gr. !!!that stuff rocks by the way!!. we took a hike to a valley ive always wanted to plink on that ive never had a chance too. so we set up on one side of the valley to shoot all the way across. the rangefinder said 470 yards to the rockface we were going to plink to. now the funny thing is ive only tried this kind of distance with a scoped 308 nato before. this is where the apreciation for my mosin struck me like lightning! so i slid the leaf to the aproximant position between the 4 and 5 on the leaf. i chose my target. which was a stump i would estimate thats ruffly about a 1x3 foot stump sticking out of the rockface on the other side of the valley.i took a deep breath , i aimed, shot, Nailed it!! first try! we sat there and passed the the mosin back and fourth til we went thru about 40 rounds. more importantly i made a believer out of my friend!!!
to conclude on the day i still think i might buy the pe mount , but after today i felt pretty confident with the ironsights. i didnt nail the stump everytime, but i would say around 75 percent of the time i did. not bad for a shotgun junkie! i plan on going up tommorow, im gonna look for a spot where i can set up some long range target 400+ that i dont need to rock climb to set up. living in the rockies is Awesome,but finding a safe clearing to shoot at always isnt quite that easy.
