Which one does he use while crawling around after deer? My guess is that he borrows an AK-47 from his wife.
Here in the Southeast, my hunter friends tell me that the preferred method for hunting deer is out of a treestand or running the dogs. But that's just here, so....
Does ANYONE, ANYWHERE, hunt deer by crawling on their belly?
...adding that such rifles were first manufactured in Russia more than 100 years ago and were used by the North Koreans and the Vietcong.
The Mosin-Nagant rifle was developed in Russia in the 1890s and was used by Russia in WWI, WWII and was later produced in huge quantities by the Red Chinese.
Kerry was either exaggerating his story, turning an obsolete bolt-action rifle into an AK-47, or Kerry thinks that a WWI-era bolt-action rifle is an "assault rifle" and should be banned. Given that Kerry recently voted to ban most centerfire rifle cartridges (including calibers that are not "military" but are commonly used by hunters and target shooters), it stands to reason that Kerry would also ban 100 year-old bolt-action rifles.
The gun control fanatics might allow Kerry to hunt pheasants on his estates with his $10,000 shotgun, but the "sportsman" Kerry would confiscate grandpa's rifle.