maybe its due to less moving parts. Could be that the Nagant your using is really beat up and the tolerances are not as tight as they once were. I am sure it kicks like a mule, too. hoys the recoil on that Thompson?

************* I understand that the Thompson is a excellent gun thats why i bought it, im just wonderin how a muzzloader can outshoot a sniper rifle**********

Well one man's sniper rifle is another man's junk.

I like the Remington 700 with the heavy barrel for sitting pretty and sniping.

The Thompson has a more well engineered and more precision manufactured barrel than the Ruskie crap. It's going to put it's pay load in the same place more often than an old WWII rifle made by people, who at the time, were still trying to communicate with aliens.