The firearm thread

[Hans]

Picked up some 7.62x54R rounds

Got a few empty cases to load to, shall do that tonight

-Indy

Are we likely to find you lying somewhere on a rooftop soon? That's ammo for a very special type of game...

[Blackrat]

try Arthur Clelland - 07-843.7858 Browning gunsmith in Hamilton.
Regards

[Indiana_Jones]

Are we likely to find you lying somewhere on a rooftop soon? That's ammo for a very special type of game...

Come again? lol

-Indy

[Hans]

Forgive me it's just that I can't imagine a civilian use for 7.62x54R. Enlighten me if you will. Genuinely curious here.

[Wolf]

Forgive me it's just that I can't imagine a civilian use for 7.62x54R. Enlighten me if you will. Genuinely curious here.

They can kill deer, y'know.

[Hans]

Yeah, I realise that. I'm just not aware of anything civilian that's chambered for it. That's all.

[Wolf]

Is anyone taking along a .308/7.62x51 tomorrow?

[Wolf]

Yeah, I realise that. I'm just not aware of anything civilian that's chambered for it. That's all.

Well the Mosin-Nagant is ex-military to be sure, but then so's the venerable .303 that's been the mainstay of farmers, hunters and deer-cullers in NZ since Christ wore shorts.

[Hans]

Now I get it...Ta

[Wolf]

I had an old M-N, myself, once. Nice. And cheap.

Only ever fired it a few times at a target, never got a chance to take it hunting before I sold it.

Did better with that than my old 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser - I never even got a chance to fire it once before I had to sell it to get cash.

[Hans]

Yep, my ignorance of local circumstances. Where I come from 7.62x54R is seen purely as a military round and no-one would go hunting with it. And, funnily enough, something like 7mm08 would be seen as a hunting round and nothing else.

[Indiana_Jones]

Ah lol (after reading the last few posts)

Pending the court case regarding the 'free standing' (yea right) stocks, I might get a Dragunov after the new year, another 7.62x54R

-Indy

[Hans]

That was the first thing that came to mind, when I read your post. Hence the question.

[Indiana_Jones]

That was the first thing that came to mind, when I read your post. Hence the question.

Yea, they make a civilian version of that too, AKA the Tigr

-Indy

[Wolf]

Always wanted a Dragunov - doesn't really suit my type of hunting since I'm not patient enough to sit downwind of a watering hole all day waiting for the game to come along, but I wanted one just so I could say I'd owned one.