I really like the Nagant and I love the cartridge. I have acquired some more of them over the last few years when I found them on sale for around 100-120 dollars. The nicest one I have was a Century Arms refurbished. It is more accurate bench shooting than my buddy’s far more expensive sniper version. Made him kind of mad, but results were same for both of us - tighter groups with the refurbished one.
I am going to have the lever turned down on the bolt and I have a scope mount for it. Will experiment more with it this fall, but for the money these things are a bargain.
The Germans never appreciated that the Soviets mass produced millions of sniper telescopes. You can get period correct ones even today.
German optics get the press, but Soviet ones were darned fine too.