7.62x54r has a lot more kick to it

This is him after getting konked in the forehead by the scope as he was using a slug round in the shotgun

I like the kick on a mosin though

Since mine is a carbine it makes a fireball every time i shoot it

7.62 Russian is about a .30-06 or 7.62NATO

Closer to nato

Thats a big range

Must be hell to change targets

This is for the rifles and long guns

There is a separate area for archery and pistols

I can hit up to 150m with scope but 100m is optimal on iron sights

For the SKS?

On what gun? You can shoot much further than 100 on irons

The SKS on the latter

The range goes up to 200m I believe

7.62Soviet is a 300m round, you can do further, but it is minute of man at 300m for most

The outdoor range near me(2 hour drive sadly) is 100m but they're building a 600m range and that should be ready in the spring

I have an indoor range 30 mins away that goes up to 100m but they cost more, especially if you don't have a membership

When i start my job i'll probably get a membership for them, i want to buy a CMP M1 garand too

I tried using a smaller rifle with a scope and I was wobbling too much to aim to the furthest target

I was using the SKS and AR-15 mostly

SKS is fun, fuck import bans

Canadians get them for $200-300 cad

Yeah that is minute of man. If I may, grab a 1903A4 if you can find a cheep one. They are 500m rifles

I think my friend paid like $600

Damn he overpaid then unless it was never fired

You can buy a russian one in good condition for that

It's something that was used in the 1980s according to him and not something milled in the 2000s

It was covered in that gunk when he got it

Yugo SKSes are the most recently manufactured ones out of the 3 most popular sks types(russian, chinese, yugo)

Probably covered in cosmoline for long term storage

Yep, cosmoline

Cosmoline. Did he bake it off?

He cleaned it all off

Stripped it and got it all out of the interior, reoiled the necessary components

Knew a FFL back in the day that did a lot of comblock surplus, had an electric kitchen oven right in the shop to heat up the Cosmoline so he could get it off for the floor samples.

If memory serves, the gun date was around right before Yugoslavia dissolved

So late 80's early 90's

Yeah