Any Russian Mosin can potentially be a decent "truck gun", but that can be a process of weeding out the used up and overworked specimens. For the average deer shot, it's proably fine. In Michigan in my 40 years of deer hunting I still haven't shot a deer farther than 70 yards away, and most shots were 40-60 yards. But I hunt thick stuff and am often in swamps.
The 7.62 X 54 round is a fine cartridge, and the Mosin "Crude" design is actually a good example of simple and sweet engineering. The Savage 110 is strong and simple, not pretty, but practical. Same for the Russian design. The triggers are typical military heavywieghts, with plenty of lag, creep, and grit....they were never meant for benchrest.
If you can find one that shoots as yours does you've got an adequate and extremely affordable hunting rifle. I have two of the short variants and one of the long ones. The long one and one of the short ones won't group for crap. They are simply shot out and have atrocious triggers. One of the short 44's is decent but not what I would choose to carry. But for 50-75- or even 100 yards on a stationary target it is adequate. I'm going to leave it up at a friends U.P. cabin with a couple boxes of soft points for the occaisional 100 yard deer that shows up out the back door.
My father owns a very old octagon receiver long (91/30?) model that was captured and re-worked at an arsenal in Finland....it is pristine and gorgeous, and it will shoot excellent groups at 100 yards with iron sights. I would say that with my 54 yr old eyes and a good rest that 4-6 inch groups at 100 yards with iron sights is pretty damn good. A younger man with real eyes could probably improve on that significantly, and adding a peep might be the ticket, unless a scope is desired.
Every gun is capable of being a dog or a beauty.