On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:37:58 -0500, John H.
wrote:

. Wish I could say the same about the Mosin Nagant. The Russians
must have spent a lot of time practicing how to load that damn thing.

I bet if you look around a little you could find the Soviet training
manual and the procedure they were taught. You were in the army, you
know they drilled this until they could do it in their sleep.