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If you're looking to hunt with it, maybe pick up an m44. I've got one and I love it. Kicks like a mule, but quite accurate. It's 7.62mmx54r. Plenty of knockdown power.

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I recently picked up a Mosin Nagant M91/30 dirt cheap. And yes...kicks like a mule, but definitely fun to shoot. I adapted a scope to it, but still need to get it sighted in. It's a wonderfully accurate rifle. Before that, I was shooting with just iron-sights and getting consistent ten-round groupings at 100 yards about the size of a worn-out tennis ball.

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For home-defense, though, you'll want either a pistol with JHP rounds or a shotgun. You don't want to be killing somebody asleep in their bed in a house nearby.

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