I sold my 91/30 to a guy for $100 cash, because I prefer carbines.
My 44 kicks less than the 91/30, maybe due to being much shorter and less powder burns inside the barrel.
But the 44 is so much handier and simple to move through the house and carry under tree limbs.
Meet my fun family: used Mini 14 & 30, (prev. unfired) Norinco SKS, MN 44 and ancient Savage .22.
Just a middle-aged, very, very late-bloomer with fun guns for plinking.
100-yard accuracy is not important to me-not at all. My floating targets are no more than 60 feet away. I could not imagine spending lots of ammo money on an AR-15 with a scope, expensive stuff, or an M-14/M-1A1 etc... just to impress other people at the range (have never hunted). I'm a simple "conscripted, ill-trained Russian peasant", who prefers to shoot cheaper Wolf ammo etc in simple guns with iron sights, thereby allowing more frequent plinking.