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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 904793" data-attributes="member: 6406"><p>The Russian army was a huge teeming mob of illiterate peasants who couldn't shoot and couldn't be counted on to maintain their rifles. Russian Mosin Nagants were designed to be cheap, easily-produced, and durable; accuracy really wasn't a concern. By contrast, wealthier countries with smaller, better trained armies had better weapons. Finland's take on the Mosin is a pretty good example of this; so is the K31.</p><p></p><p>The ammo is also a culprit. Partly it's inaccurate for the same reasons the rifles are: no one cares if your conscript army can shoot accurately or not. Lots of those Eastern Bloc countries cranked out 7.62x54r, even after the Mosin was phased out as an infantry weapon, as make-work projects because they still had the old tooling. They didn't really care about quality then either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 904793, member: 6406"] The Russian army was a huge teeming mob of illiterate peasants who couldn't shoot and couldn't be counted on to maintain their rifles. Russian Mosin Nagants were designed to be cheap, easily-produced, and durable; accuracy really wasn't a concern. By contrast, wealthier countries with smaller, better trained armies had better weapons. Finland's take on the Mosin is a pretty good example of this; so is the K31. The ammo is also a culprit. Partly it's inaccurate for the same reasons the rifles are: no one cares if your conscript army can shoot accurately or not. Lots of those Eastern Bloc countries cranked out 7.62x54r, even after the Mosin was phased out as an infantry weapon, as make-work projects because they still had the old tooling. They didn't really care about quality then either. [/QUOTE]
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