... and I would greatly appreciate some advice.

I am looking for a non-automatic, inexpesive to obtain/maintain, reliable, accurate rifle.

One of the ones that I am looking at is a mosin-nagant, can anyone tell me about their experiences with similar guns and things I should look for, or if I should avoid this gun like the plague.

I am planning mainly on target shooting(not necessarily hunting).

Thanks in advance

As long as I'm talking about buying things that are likely hazardous to peoples health, That 1 Watt laser that was shown off in a thread roughly 2 weeks ago is going to ship in about a week.For those of you who missed it here is a link to the products page.

I got a kick out of the warning which states "Warning: Extremely dangerous is an understatement to 1W of laser power..."

To put things in perspective, your average red laser pointer is about 1mW. This laser is 1000 times as powerful.

Can't wait to try it out, might post a video when it arrives.:D

I probably won't be online as much due to work and another semester of school starting up soon. Work is going pretty well, it just takes a significant amount of effort. The only major problem I have with it is the odd hours which often put me driving home late at night. This wouldn't be a problem except that when the sun goes down, everyone seems to turn into a really terrible driver. Aside from little things like people cutting me off , making illegal U-turns and such, I have had to deal with people merging without looking and nearly taking a chunk out of the car doors. The worse was a couple nights ago when a semi ran a red light while I was getting ready to make a tun across traffic and his lane. If I hadn't taken the time to adjust the radio station before making the turn, I would hve likely ended up as nothing more than a smear on the road. Something that made me laugh was the song that started up was Black Sabbath's Paranoid.