have a mosin? post it !
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Josh Smith
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My Mosin
I apologize in advance for the screw heads; they were taken apart literally hundreds of times. I've since replaced them and found a proper bit for my torque wrench that will not cause damage to the new ones, even over the long-term!
Front view of the prototype that started my business...
... and the rear.
The action is shimmed and the barrel corked:
I also made some cool things like a two-stage Finn M39-style trigger. Instead of pins, it has bearings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdO8M4-idqE
I apologize in advance for the screw heads; they were taken apart literally hundreds of times. I've since replaced them and found a proper bit for my torque wrench that will not cause damage to the new ones, even over the long-term!
Front view of the prototype that started my business...
... and the rear.
The action is shimmed and the barrel corked:
I also made some cool things like a two-stage Finn M39-style trigger. Instead of pins, it has bearings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdO8M4-idqE
Josh Smith
Moderator
You can barely see a couple bearings under the sear.
This rifle is capable of this (or rather, I'm capable of doing this, with my 20/55 sight; I'm sure the rifle's much better):
I had to work for that group, but as long as I have a target I can see, I can do about that. I take coyotes at 200 yards. That's about as far as I can see, uncorrected.
I know what these rifles can do and I love to see folks wring them out. Heck, a Finnish M39 had to have at least a 1.3MOA capability to be accepted into service!
Josh
sounds fair and good. the groupings are good and its not an issue, a few people have to get "replacement" parts on their mosin to function correctly. (screws, stock ect)
it looks in good condition, i personally like the 9130's look more than the m44.they look more streamlined and do not have the mechanism for the bayonet on the side. the longer barrel dose make them heavy but that can be good for balistics
it looks in good condition, i personally like the 9130's look more than the m44.they look more streamlined and do not have the mechanism for the bayonet on the side. the longer barrel dose make them heavy but that can be good for balistics
I just want to bring everyone's attention to this
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t45L5GZg1HA&desktop_uri=/watch?v=t45L5GZg1HA
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t45L5GZg1HA&desktop_uri=/watch?v=t45L5GZg1HA
Mohave-Tec
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New to Mosin
I had been thinking about buying an antique rifle for a wall hanger to put over my reloading bench. Then I saw a crate of these at a tiny local store about 6 weeks ago. I ran home and punched in "What to look for in a Mosin Nagant" then ran back to the store. Yep, one hex in the crate. That's all I knew. It took a couple days to fully discover what I had.
1933 Izhevsk M91/30. MO 1933/50. Red Letter. All numbers matching, even the bayonet. In excellent condition except the stock as is usual for a rearsenaled rifle.
I pulled all the metal apart and boiled out the cosmoline, re-lubed the gun, checked for danger then headed for the desert. Just so you know, I clocked the 147gr misurp rounds at a modest 2750 fps.
Now I love things of beauty and I can see things of beauty in old guns. When I started this quest I had imagined an old western lever action with half the bluing gone and great ware and petina in the stock as my wall hanger. This would have been perfect with the Mosin as well but the more I looked at the slopped on varnish oozing with cosmoline the more I couldn't accept it. 'How to clean this gun up and maintain my appreciation for things antique? Buy a discarded stock off ebay. Yeah!!!'
Two weeks later I both finished the "new" stock and the M44 arrived. Now the M44 is apart and its second stock is drying. Here they are at that point in time...
Even though the original stocks are off the rifle and carbine, I still wanted to preserve the markings in the incorrect stocks so all I did with these new-used stocks is strip them and use 0000 steel wool on them so they are light and dark as they were before refinishing. I didn't try to correct for that. And with multiple coats of tung oil I am less afraid to take them out and bang them around in the desert.
I'll have more pictures when the carbine is finished. I would have those pictures today but when I discovered I could buy new-used stocks for these guns I also discovered I could buy new seer springs, bolt springs and trigger kits so the carbine remains apart on my bench while I wait for these things to arrive. I'm saving all the original parts and using the newly refinished stocks and new-used parts to make these rifles real shooters while preserving all the history of these rifles. These rifles may end up on a wall but they will also go to the desert or the range regularly and see alot of action.
I had been thinking about buying an antique rifle for a wall hanger to put over my reloading bench. Then I saw a crate of these at a tiny local store about 6 weeks ago. I ran home and punched in "What to look for in a Mosin Nagant" then ran back to the store. Yep, one hex in the crate. That's all I knew. It took a couple days to fully discover what I had.
1933 Izhevsk M91/30. MO 1933/50. Red Letter. All numbers matching, even the bayonet. In excellent condition except the stock as is usual for a rearsenaled rifle.
I pulled all the metal apart and boiled out the cosmoline, re-lubed the gun, checked for danger then headed for the desert. Just so you know, I clocked the 147gr misurp rounds at a modest 2750 fps.
Now I love things of beauty and I can see things of beauty in old guns. When I started this quest I had imagined an old western lever action with half the bluing gone and great ware and petina in the stock as my wall hanger. This would have been perfect with the Mosin as well but the more I looked at the slopped on varnish oozing with cosmoline the more I couldn't accept it. 'How to clean this gun up and maintain my appreciation for things antique? Buy a discarded stock off ebay. Yeah!!!'
Two weeks later I both finished the "new" stock and the M44 arrived. Now the M44 is apart and its second stock is drying. Here they are at that point in time...
Even though the original stocks are off the rifle and carbine, I still wanted to preserve the markings in the incorrect stocks so all I did with these new-used stocks is strip them and use 0000 steel wool on them so they are light and dark as they were before refinishing. I didn't try to correct for that. And with multiple coats of tung oil I am less afraid to take them out and bang them around in the desert.
I'll have more pictures when the carbine is finished. I would have those pictures today but when I discovered I could buy new-used stocks for these guns I also discovered I could buy new seer springs, bolt springs and trigger kits so the carbine remains apart on my bench while I wait for these things to arrive. I'm saving all the original parts and using the newly refinished stocks and new-used parts to make these rifles real shooters while preserving all the history of these rifles. These rifles may end up on a wall but they will also go to the desert or the range regularly and see alot of action.
ChasingWhitetail91
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Looks like an older rifle with an even older set of shooting sticks vtxmauser 
I keep talking myself out of buying one but its gets harder every time I see onerottieman33
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