Whether made to brush gun specs to fill a market niche, or reconfigured from an existing service or stock hunting rifle, such guns are typically short in length, powerful enough to reliably take down medium-to-large sized game and rugged enough to be tossed behind a truck seat. Few rifles fill this niche more admirably than the Mosin-Nagant M44, a carbine-length warhorse of sturdy construction that fires the venerable 7.62x54R cartridge.