There use to be a gun club in the TA centre near sandgate the place was demolished years ago, the gun club must have move location, I used the range there for a while. There is a gun shop on the way to Hythe from Sandgate its a couple of miles past the fountain pub if you end up in Hythe you have gone to far its just past a bupa hospital I think try asking in there would be my advise.
I wish someone would start mass producing 7.62x54R in sp ammo as well as fmj, the amount of mosin nagents psl/dragonov rifles and others etc there is a dam market for the stuff. also there are a bunch of mosins in this country being used to hunt with.
Scratch 1 off for me my new stock turned up yesterday, i already used the dremmel to machine out the trigger area for the timney trigger and bolt slot i now have a weeks worth of sanding to do as it looks like it was chewed out by a beaver.
Your wife doesn't know my wife does she ? I did a similar thing with my mosin nagent started of as a standard 1942 91/30 now its a scoped hunting rifle with over $500 spent on the parts but it does have some serious drool factor ;D