I really haven't heard many stories of people getting animals with their military surplus rifles, but I know they have. So please all of you post your story. Mostly where, when, what, with what, what load, etc...
Starting off last year I finally took an elk with my Mosin Nagant M44. It has a cheap pine ridge 6x40mm scope that I put on a few years ago. I shot it from fifty yards at the base of the neck quartering towards me. the bullet was a .308 180 gr hornady sst over 53 gr's of winchester 760. It hit the top of the heart and took off the veins and arteries, causing it to bleed out into the chest cavity. it ran around a tree and fell dead after 30 yards running. Only a spike but good eating.
so i was at the range a few weeks ago and lining up my sights on the 100 yd target, when all of a sudden it came flying across the range. biggest i'd ever seen. i had my m44 and was shooting bulgarian surplus. i steadied the rifle, trying to slow my breathing. adrenaline was outta control and my heart was pounding and making it hard to get a bead on it. i took a deep breath and held it. it must have sensed the impending doom, because just as i squeezed the trigger, it zigged and the bullet traveled harmlessly down the range.
good thing i had that m44 and surplus ammo though. that moth never saw the fireball that followed the bullet, till it was too late and it was engulfed in a massive ball of romainian fire!
never did find the carcass. no matter.
i didn't have any moth tags on me anyway.
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I'll be taking my R700 in .30-06 out for the first deer of the season. Once I secure some meat in the freezer, I'll definitely be hauling out the M91/30!
I've used my SKS on 'yotes, a friend of mine has used his on Colorado Muleys. I'm going to try my hand at using my M44 on Colorado elk the first chance I get.
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This month's Guns & Ammo had an article by Craig Boddington on hunting with a milsurp. He ordered a Mauser 98k from Mitchell's Mausers (and waxed rhapsodic about them, which is counter to what people have said about them here on G&G) and took it on a feral hog hunt. He loved the rifle, but grumbled about the sights. He said that the Mauser's sights were definitely made for young men's eyes; but he managed to take a hog with it anyhow.
I emailed Richard Venola, the editor of Guns & Ammo, and suggested if he wanted another good article on shooting milsurps, he ought to hand Boddington about $600 or so and tell him to go out, buy himself a 91/30, and then sporterize it with a Boyds walnut Monte Carlo stockand either Mojo sights or a jmeck scope mount, a good scope and a bent bolt (his choice). Then, get him some good SP hunting ammo, zero the piece, and take it on a big game hunt. He wrote back that Boddington had sworn vengeance on him if Venola ever handed him an assignment like the one with the 98k again, but that the idea is sufficiently intriguing he wants to hand it to another staffer and let him run with it. So we may get a good article on modifying the daylights out of a Mosin Nagant from a warhorse to a hunting rifle yet!
For all of my adult life I have used an '03 Rock Island Arsenal sporter in .30-06 for most of my rifle hunting. The receiver 327XXX and original 24" barrel were made in 1918 just after the weak receiver production period. It is deeply hot blued with a polished bolt. The barreled receiver sits in a Rinehart-Fagan uncheckered walnut stock with a rosewood end cap. Finally, the rear sight is a Williams mechanical aperture ring. It is the most accurate rifle in my little arsenal. My favorite hunting ammunition is Federal 150 grain soft point boat tails though I have used other brands and configurations. My longest shot was 150 yards across a timber cut with tall grass on a relatively windy day in late November here in South Carolina. The buck was an 8-pointer that weighed in at 190 pounds with his horns rubbed clean. I don’t have a picture of the buck, but I will try to get a picture of my rifle.
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yeah, my dad used an 03 to take his first deer, He just inherited the rifle, along with an m-1 carbine from my grandmother who just passed away. My first was with a .270 that belongs to him, but I have had my m44 since a bit before I joined the Marines 5 years ago, but only got something bigger than rabbits last october.
Well I have yet to do it, but I guess technically its a milsurp anyways. Its a 1917 Remington .30-06. Got a 3x9 Leupold on it. The rifle will shoot 1 moa easy, and probably could do better if I could. I gave it a year off last year, and took my first white tail buck with my Parker Hale .308 Win. rifle instead. Should have had the old milsurp. I would have rather taken one with that. But, hopefully this year will yield another kill from the ole girl. Its killed many of deer long before my time too.
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IC Can you post a picture of your Parker Hale rifle ? Did'nt you or someone else post a picture several moths ago ?
I've always wanted one. I use to droll over the ad in OutDoor life magazine when I was a kid.
I swore someday I'd have one. As I got older I forgot about them till someone posted a picture one time here.
Brought back memorys...A.H
I haven't yet, but I would not hesitate to take my M91/59 or K98 deer, elk, or black bear hunting tomorrow. With a little more load work, I would take my M95 Steyr as well. Yet to be sorted out are my two M91/30s (one a lammy), my M38 SA Carcano, and my M44.
Oh yeah, I also have my 94 Winchester .30-30. I hear that's a good deer rifle, too.
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my laminated 91/30 will tag along as a iron sight back up to my rem 7mm mag. The rem has no iron sights so if something happens to my scope I will have a go to gun that I trust.
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A couple years ago I took a very nice fat whitetail doe at 140 yards with my 1942 Husky Swedish Mauser, using a 140 grain factory Remington Corelok round. She was facing me, quartering away just a touch to my left, and I shot her on the right side of the neck. The round destroyed the shoulder and I found the bullet about 8" into the upper loin on the side I shot her.
She actually jumped straight up and came down on her back, flipping over backwards, and never moved from that spot. And she was delicious.
And that's the only animal I've shot with a mil-surp gun.. But fall's coming!!
A couple years ago I took a very nice fat whitetail doe at 140 yards with my 1942 Husky Swedish Mauser, using a 140 grain factory Remington Corelok round. She was facing me, quartering away just a touch to my left, and I shot her on the right side of the neck. The round destroyed the shoulder and I found the bullet about 8" into the upper loin on the side I shot her.
She actually jumped straight up and came down on her back, flipping over backwards, and never moved from that spot. And she was delicious.
And that's the only animal I've shot with a mil-surp gun.. But fall's coming!!
Necropsy showed doe died of heart-attack from sound of report, but Paper never mentions that part.
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