I've been a Mosin collector for a couple of years now. Never really considered hunting with one, as I always just used them for blasting away with cheap milsurp ammo and making big fireballs at the range. Then I bought a 91/59 on a whim, with a pristine bore and super sharp rifling. I didn't want to shoot corrosives through it, so I started handloading x54R. Then I put a scout base and a Burris 2.75x20 scope on it, and it will outshoot many of my more expensive rifles. I can load it for boar or deer (or just about anything else in the US, with bullets readily available from 110 grains all the way up to 215 Woodleighs from Midway.)