My first Mosin, plus more indoor range fun

[Dave DeLaurant]

I'm used to doing things in reverse order from most people. In keeping with this habit, and after owning perhaps one hundred other rifles at one time or another, I've finally added a Mosin-Nagant to my rifle arsenal. It is a very nice condition, 1954-dated Romanian M44 carbine, Century Arms import marked:



I'd like to try shooting it with pistol ammunition at my indoor range, so if anyone has one of those 7.62x54 chamber converters for .32 ACP/S&W Long and is willing to sell, please PM me. Sportsman's Guide is sold out, and Numrich only has 7.63 Tokarev converters -- I don't load for that cartridge.

I've been having fairly good luck with chamber converters in .303 British -- on Monday I took my faux Lee Enfield Jungle Carbine to the indoor range and produced a few fair groups using 32 S&W long handloads with 83 grain plated wadcutters. Unimpressive accuracy from a rifle at 22 yards, but good fun within the range rules. The RSO says I bring the oddest pistol caliber carbines they see.

 

[Aintso]

My friend has a Mosin same or similar to yours. The muzzle blast experience at an indoor range with russian surplus ammo is a real show stopper!

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

My friend has a Mosin same or similar to yours. The muzzle blast experience at an indoor range with russian surplus ammo is a real show stopper!

I can well imagine! BTW, I was watching an episode of Midsomer Murders where a guy was teaching a younger shooter using a centerfire varmint rifle inside a barn, no hearing protection visible. I tried to explain to my wife what one shot under those conditions would do to their hearing, but my warning fell on deaf ears

My club allows up to .30 US Carbine on their indoor range, so I'm trying to find a 7.62x54R chamber adapter for the same pistol ammo as with my .303 British rifles. With my .32 S&W Long handloads in a 18"+ barrel, the muzzle crack is probably less than a suppressed .223.