[Avenger]

Mosins shoot better in the snow. The last time I took my favorite 91/30 out in winter, she shot her tightest groups ever, a tiny smidge over 1 3/4ths inches at 100 yards. On the 300 yard targets, everything was in a dinner plate sized area, except for the two called flyers that happened after I took a snowflake around the glasses.

But with the M44, when you touch off a round, it stops snowing, and starts raining....if the flash doesn't evaporate the raindrops too!