Muzzle Blast: Mosin Nagant M38

[Ovidio]

There is a guy selling an M44 close to here. I got a friend of mine interested just reminding him of the fireball of my own

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[Heavy Metal 1]

Mine is Covid CDC compliant because the blast is very effective in incentivizing social distancing at the range.

[ssgross]

Impressive timing with your camera. did you just get a luck snap? or crop from a video?

[usabaker]

did you just get a luck snap? or crop from a video?

I tried like heck to capture that with my phones camera No Joy - It was later when I was viewing a video I saw that I had a clip with the firebal,l so yup, I use my editing software to pull a picture from a frame.

[728shooter]

I recall years ago seeing either a picture or a short video of an M44 being fired at dusk. The sun had already set but there was still just enough light to see the target & the shooter. Needless to say, the blast that came out of that muzzle literally looked like a flamethrower, a ball of fire that reached out 6-8 feet and lit up the whole area. My first reaction was: can you imagine back in WWII the look on the German's faces seeing a whole line of Russians charging at them with those guns a-blazing? Yeah, I'd be throwing my hands up in the air too.....

[Ovidio]

I think they rather mowed them down...
They were used enough to the Russian material superiority.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

The "muzzle effect" from issue ball in the old 8 x 56R M95 Steyr carbines is pretty wild.

Recoil is a bit of a wake-up call, as well.

[728shooter]

The "muzzle effect" from issue ball in the old 8 x 56R M95 Steyr carbines is pretty wild.

Recoil is a bit of a wake-up call, as well.

Amen to that. M95 Steyr probably the meanest recoil I've ever felt, shoulder black-n-blue for days afterwards....