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I've shot this a few times in Russia and I can tell you that its less than impressive as far as accuracy is concerned.
When you fire this is sounds like a hard baseball hitting an aluminum bat and the round cracks down range... so, it can discomboble whom you are shooting at...or so I have been told.
Its manufacture and assembly is rough at best...typical Russian stuff. The optics are the usual PSO-1 scope that is on the SVD as well... I find it hard to believe that its a wise thing to use the same optics for the 7.62x54R and the 9.3mm round.
Accuracy was less than spectacular as well. Seems like we were getting like 2.5" at 100 yards...
Rounds are kept in a 10 round box magazine.
The round itself is interesting... very complex round and I believe the best thing about this round is its weight, and penetration capabilities. The outter jacket was often stuck to the the outside of metalic targets we used, and the inner steel core penetrated the target. The base of the cartridge is unmarked... complete clean... which is interesting.
Its been a while since I fired this weapon, I have some pics at home with it. currently I am at Camp Slayer, VBC right now.
I have some reference books too...
In short, its interesting, but so are Vespa's and fat girls... neither of which would you want your buddies to see you riding either.
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