Soviet Sharpshooters' Rifles And The Women Who Used Them

By Bob Owens | 4:42 PM | August 19, 2015

Karl and Ian have both done a lot of shooting with a wide variety of guns, and we figure their opinions on those guns may be pretty well prejudiced by that. So today, we are bringing in a more novice shooter, to get her opinions on a couple of older Soviet sharpshooting rifles: a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 PU and an NDM-86 Dragunov.

While we have these rifles out, we’re also going to discuss the women who fought as sharpshooters during the Great Patriotic War.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.