Everything Wrong with the Sniper Rifles in Enemy at the Gates

Get Entered to WIN this legendary original Mosin Nagant M91/30 PU Sniper! DEADLINE to ENTER is 02/23/24 @ 11:59pm (PST). One of the very few blockbuster American movies about the Eastern Front in World War Two is Enemy at the Gates, a film about the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev. The movie is based around a duel between Zaitsev and the fictional German sniper Erwin König during the Battle of Stalingrad. There are lots of points of contention surrounding the historical accuracy of the film overall, but today I want to look at specifically the small arms. Enemy at the Gates really has just one problem when it comes to guns: it portrays a lot of things before they would have actually existed. However, it portrays them quite accurately besides the chronological issues. The Soviet snipers are all shown with M91/30 PU rifles - which were not in production until just after the film's events take place. Zaitsev actually used a PEM model o