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And here would be my first gun porn in general. A lovely 1943 Izhevsk M91/30 Mosin-Nagant rifle. Came with all the essentials, oil can, tool kit, dog-collar sling, pig-sticker bayonet, and while it's not in the image, two ammo pouches.
The stock is in magnificent shape, the barrel and rifling are clean and perfect. The bolt handles and slides smoothly. Hopefully I'll acquire some ammunition for it soon, and get to see how it really handles at the range.
So cleaning this sucker off was a pain, not only was it absolutely covered in cosmoline, the idiot who shipped it didn't screw on the cap for the oilcan very well, and it spilled all over the accessories. Thankfully, a little palmolive, some hot water and some elbow grease got that crap off. I did the heat treatment method with the stock, surprises me to how the wood just sweats the stuff out before you can wipe it off.
And yes, that is a collapsible baton you see in the trigger guard.
UPDATE
The serials on the stock, rifle, bolt and everything all match, except the bayonet unfortunately. :3
The stock is in magnificent shape, the barrel and rifling are clean and perfect. The bolt handles and slides smoothly. Hopefully I'll acquire some ammunition for it soon, and get to see how it really handles at the range.
So cleaning this sucker off was a pain, not only was it absolutely covered in cosmoline, the idiot who shipped it didn't screw on the cap for the oilcan very well, and it spilled all over the accessories. Thankfully, a little palmolive, some hot water and some elbow grease got that crap off. I did the heat treatment method with the stock, surprises me to how the wood just sweats the stuff out before you can wipe it off.
And yes, that is a collapsible baton you see in the trigger guard.
UPDATE
The serials on the stock, rifle, bolt and everything all match, except the bayonet unfortunately. :3
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MOSIN!!!!!!!!!! I go to shoot 
bluekitsune's when I was out at his place last year. SO want one so bad!
bluekitsune's when I was out at his place last year. SO want one so bad!
Sweating the cosmo out of a Mosin is quite an experience. I use boiling water on all of the metal parts, and wrap the wood parts in paper then bake them on low heat in an oven to get it out.
Glad to hear yours has a nice bore...so many of them don't! Ammo for those old warhorses is still dirt cheap, so stock up on a few cans. Just remember to clean it right after shooting, because that old Soviet ammo is corrosive and will rust the barrel.
I've sold all of my Mosins over the last year. Made money on them :) I enjoyed shooting them, but I just couldn't get used to their gritty triggers. I'll always be a lever action guy at heart. :)
Glad to hear yours has a nice bore...so many of them don't! Ammo for those old warhorses is still dirt cheap, so stock up on a few cans. Just remember to clean it right after shooting, because that old Soviet ammo is corrosive and will rust the barrel.
I've sold all of my Mosins over the last year. Made money on them :) I enjoyed shooting them, but I just couldn't get used to their gritty triggers. I'll always be a lever action guy at heart. :)
Not yet, and all I can find within my immediate budget are ratty-ass American copies of the PU scope. Plus, I don't feel like drilling into the barrel to attach it, so my best bet is a cheap picatinny rail to fit onto the sights and mount a regular hunting scope on it.
Mine is a '38 izavek. Hard wood stock. Smoothest mosin Ive ever felt, I can cycle that sucker almost as fast as a straight pull. The muzzle crown looks a lil weird, and I thought it might be in-accurate, but I can shoot a spent shell every time from 50 yards. With my glasses. Without them I cant hit the city of berlin, let alone a tiny target like that.
http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/rifle/762x54/
check back daily as prices fluctuate hourly
and here's mine http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12183235/
=^.^=
check back daily as prices fluctuate hourly
and here's mine http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12183235/
=^.^=
I do love these silly things. I have a '29 Tula, a '42 Izhevsk, and a '55 Type 53. If you can find it Novosibirsk white box is pretty good stuff for bulk ammo and cheap for new production. Tula will give you a lot of split cases. PPU and Winchester have brass cases if you want to reload. And of course surplus is corrosive, just give it a good cleaning with Hopps9 or Simple Green to get rid of the mercury salts. Oh yeah and I'm sure you know, but the mosin tool has notches on it to check your firing pin protrusion depth, which you should do after you've taken your bolt apart and gotten it all back together.
Aye I know, I measured the pin and it looks fine. The pin fills up the mid-left notch completely, and the pin fills up the mid-right notch around two thirds of the way.
I do have a few 20 round boxes of Hungarian surplus ammunition on the way to test fire it later.
I do have a few 20 round boxes of Hungarian surplus ammunition on the way to test fire it later.
Ah, yes, the Garbage Rod.
Sure, your groups will suck even with the best ammo, and the fanbase is as annoying as Justin Bieber's crowd, but at the end of the day it's still one of only a handful of weapons with more than a century of service.
Hell, if it weren't so closely tied to the Nazis, I'd bet Germany would still have some old Mauser 98s in their stocks.
Sure, your groups will suck even with the best ammo, and the fanbase is as annoying as Justin Bieber's crowd, but at the end of the day it's still one of only a handful of weapons with more than a century of service.
Hell, if it weren't so closely tied to the Nazis, I'd bet Germany would still have some old Mauser 98s in their stocks.
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