"I would make sure the rifles you procure are chambered
for the 7.62x51 or 5.56 becuase these rounds have a higher chamber pressure and can lead to weapon failures. "

"Depends on what you wanna do with said cartridge. A 147-grain steel core bullet flying at 2750 FPS (as lobbed by a Mosin-Nagant) is going to hit a little harder than anything a rifle chambered in 7.62x39 is going to put into the fight. The 54R is considerably more powerful than it's smaller younger brother.

Personally, I think the 7.62x54R is an excellent choice for a survival cartridge. It's inexpensive, accurate, powerful, and available in large quantities in easily stored spam cans. The surplus rifles that shoot it are inexpensive, dependable, accurate and easy to maintain, if they're halfway decent examples. The Mosin-Nagant certainly isn't glamorous or refined like a tuned-up Armalite pattern rifle, but it won't fail you if you learn to love bright flashes, loud bangs and sharp kicks.

Here's an idea - get a "brand new" M91/30, clean the cosmoline and crap off of it, grease it up and plug the barrel/chamber... then carefully wrap it up in plastic and bury it somewhere safe. Bury a 440 round spam can or two of ammo (also carefully wrapped in plastic) next to it and plant a subtle marker to remind you that it's there. Even if "The Man" comes and gets your guns, you can still be an armed part of La Resistance. A rifle like the Mosin-Nagant can change history, in just the same way as Lee Harvey Oswald's 6.5mm Model 91/38 Carcano."

"For some strange reason, I strongly doubt that.

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So you can get 200 rounds of x39 for $20?
880 rounds for just $75?
1760 rounds for just $144?
I strongly doubt that. Considering I'm looking at a MAJOR sale right now, on the okay surplus, at 1120 rounds for $200 for x39. I can get x54 for $20 per 100, sometimes less, ALL DAY. I can get 440 per $75 all day as well. And it's the GOOD surplus, the Russian Silvertip. Maybe if you want to buy brand-new-production-yesterday, you MIGHT be able ot get x39 for less, but with the wide surplus market for the round, you won't be able to get "a little over 2x the x39 for the same price as x54r". You can't get 880 rounds of the stuff for $144 SHIPPED like you can x54R.

I'll stick with x54R, I can buy a box to shoot, and a box to bury for the price of half the amount of x39."

"In Canada x39 is cheaper, but not that cheap.

If we ever are able to own guns without registering them, arms cache for me in backyard..."

"Which the government could find if there was a search..."