projectiledysfunction

So, I'm about to mash the checkout button one of two 23" slantback 7.62x54r VEPRs Atlantic is selling (either the plain one for $879 or the one with the G2 trigger and threaded muzzle with FH for $1029.) With 7.62x54r currently being the only affordable full-powered round out there right now and for the foreseeable future I've been shooting a lot of it, but the more I shoot it the more my M44 Mosin has started to seem like a chore instead of a fun plinker. Accuracy is nothing to write home about, it's slow to reload, the notch and post sights kind of suck compared to my nicer milsurp, there's

I scraped around on the inside of the "pocket" and found the other side of the pin (it had been covered with a metal burr and paint.) I think I'll very carefully drill through the pocket to access the pin instead of having to drill out the entire pin

Looking mine over it appears that the bottom pin is blind and would have to be drilled out, because Russia Are they all like that?

Bearclaw, have you looked into this any further? I'm picking up my first VEPR-12 tomorrow and from what I've seen of the stock dimensions I imagine I will be doing the same thing you described in your first post. I'm all of 5'6" and I like to shoot shotguns offhand the same way I would an AR-15 (nose almost to the receiver) so I actually run an ACE ARFX Entry stock with a 1" recoil pad on my current Saiga-12. That's perfect for both my wife and I, so I'd like to shorten the VEPR stock to mimic that.