I took the Romanian Dragunov to the range yesterday for a first run. The scope was very out of view so I started killing 8" to 12" rocks on the rear of the 200 yard line while setting the scope. I had a few smokers while shooting that I figured were primer punching by the amount of smoke in the back end of the gun. I couldn't find the brass because the gun the spent brass into the next century. Very shortly afterwards I started getting some mis-fires due to light hits, followed by a dead gun. I stripped it down to find a frozen firing pin, I wasn't totting a small enough punch to do an on the spot repair, so down it stayed, I fired the SAFN-49 a few hundred times and blasted the center out of the target, so all wasn't a waste. When I got it home, I cleaned the gun soup to nuts finding the firing pin still stuck. I ended up re-cutting the resting angle back about 1/2 a degree and re-shaped the rear to allow for peening, when all was said and done I polished the entire mech. to a mirror finish. It is know working very well and hopefully next week I can get you guys a range report. The only thing for sure it shoots under 8" at 200 yards, but, I think that will change. Oh-yea I was shooting the copper washed stuff with the yellow and gray bands on it-SDH
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