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Posted: 9/29/2013 6:38:27 PM EDT
| Im looking to build a repro "Enemy at the gates" Mosin sniper. The 91/30 I picked up awhile back came with a Brasstacker mount which seems to have good reviews, so I'm looking for a decent cheap pistol scope to see what the rifle is capable of before committing to the era PU scope/mount. Keep coming up with Ncstar scopes with good reviews but my mind is telling me i may as well just wipe my ass with the money. Any recommendations? |
| Best option currently is to just find an actual PU. There have been several shipments over the last year or so of actual refurbished PU 91/30s. AIM has them in stock from time to time for $580, and many of the other surplus dealers get them from time to time as well. |
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Best option currently is to just find an actual PU. There have been several shipments over the last year or so of actual refurbished PU 91/30s. AIM has them in stock from time to time for $580, and many of the other surplus dealers get them from time to time as well. This X 1000! By the time you screw around with all the Jerry-rigged mounts and worthless scopes, you could have the real deal and it will most likely shoot better, too. I wouldn't trade any one of my original PU scopes for a truckload of anything from NCStar (and yes, I'm speaking from personal experience with plenty of both). 
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I thought all the recent "snipers" were just standard 91/30s with repro scopes already attached? Mine already came with a mount so I just need a pistol scope. If the rifle is really accurate, then i'll do the actual PU scope/mount. Nope; most of the recent imports are legit rifles with wartime scopes. There was a batch of "repro" rifles - the ones SOG had, with repro mounts and scopes - but the ones AIM has had recently are legit rifles. |
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I thought all the recent "snipers" were just standard 91/30s with repro scopes already attached? Mine already came with a mount so I just need a pistol scope. If the rifle is really accurate, then i'll do the actual PU scope/mount. As MVolkJ stated, all the PU snipers that have been sold by Aim, Classic and Rguns are legit wartime snipers. I have one and love it. Once you add up the cost of a PU scope and mount plus the cost of drilling and mounting the receiver and cutting the stock back where the mount attaches you'll be very close to the cost of a legit PU sniper. Plus you'll end up with a rifle with zero collector value due to the modifications. |
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As MVolkJ stated, all the PU snipers that have been sold by Aim, Classic and Rguns are legit wartime snipers. I have one and love it. Once you add up the cost of a PU scope and mount plus the cost of drilling and mounting the receiver and cutting the stock back where the mount attaches you'll be very close to the cost of a legit PU sniper. Plus you'll end up with a rifle with zero collector value due to the modifications. Quoted:
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I thought all the recent "snipers" were just standard 91/30s with repro scopes already attached? Mine already came with a mount so I just need a pistol scope. If the rifle is really accurate, then i'll do the actual PU scope/mount. As MVolkJ stated, all the PU snipers that have been sold by Aim, Classic and Rguns are legit wartime snipers. I have one and love it. Once you add up the cost of a PU scope and mount plus the cost of drilling and mounting the receiver and cutting the stock back where the mount attaches you'll be very close to the cost of a legit PU sniper. Plus you'll end up with a rifle with zero collector value due to the modifications. This guy is right, OP. I have 3 of the PU Snipers that have been imported in the last few years. I wasnt disappointed with a single one of them. I strongly suggest you find one of them. About $600, and you have a legit PU sniper and it will have a decent trigger, and be accurate. 2 things yours likely isnt. |
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I had a nc-star long relief scope on a M44 carbine (it was on it when I bought it) , mounted on a crappy mount where the rear sight would fit and the 54r made the scope self-destruct!!!.It literally started falling to pieces so I changed to irons and found it far more enjoyable to shoot.
A guy at my local range fitted one of the repro Russian sniper scopes to his Mosin and it wasn't long before he had a similiar situation with that, the lenses etc started coming loose so he ended up paying a good few quid for an original 1940s scope and hasn't had any problems with it so I suppose like anything you get what you pay for. |
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The iron sights on the 91/30 are actually pretty good and if you know how to use them you'd be able to tell if the rifle was accurate or not....then invest in the real PU scope mount system if you want. No need to buy that cheap crap scope which may or may not tell you if your rifle is accurate or not due to potential quality flaws. If you really want to buy a scout position scope buy the Leupold....Weaver might make one also. I find pistol scopes lacking very much when mounted in the scout position. I find they have to be mounted as far forward as possible and then crawl back slightly on the stock to get a good sight picture. The eye relief of a scout scope mounts as to allow for proper eye relief and makes for better balance. YMMV
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