Guggmeister said:
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Originally Posted by Josh Smith View Post
Show me why the Mosin is inferior. WHY?
It blows gases in your face with underpressured rounds or in case of a case rupture. Bad safety. Often unreliable magazine or sticky bolt.
Sir,
Thank you for pointing these out. They are points I'd like to address.
1.
The bolt allowing blowback of gasses: I have not experienced this. I've loaded underpressure rounds in the past, and they seem to always vent around or behind the bolt head. I've never had one puff back in my face.
I had case ruptures in the neck and/or shoulder when was still shooting military surplus -- mostly with wartime manufacture, never with the better stuff like Czech -- and have likewise not experienced gas blowback.
I have
not had a case head separation. Being a reloader, I probably will sooner or later, even though I check fired cases with a probe. However, I don't load hot so it'll probably be later. I'll most definitely check back in on that if/when it happens.
2.
Bad safety: I'll give you this. It's worse for some folks than others; I work with my hands every day and I find it easy to use. However, a friend cannot. It's certainly not as easy to use as on, say, a Mauser-style bolt.
The Timney Trigger, of course, makes the stock safety a moot point. I personally do not prefer their trigger group as I prefer two-stage, but it can most definitely be had if it's a concern for the builder.
3.
Magazine issues: These are mostly caused by poor fitment of the stock or interrupter during refurbishment. The 8mm version will not, of course, have many feeding issues like rimlock due to the nature of the round. I'd go so far as to say that it's a failure of the 7.62x54r round and not of the rifle's design. I get rimlock at times with my modern bolt-action .22 rimfire I use for squirrels.
A properly fitted Mosin-Nagant should have no magazine issues. That was a failure of the refurbishment process.
4.
Sticky bolt. I've found that most sticky bolt is caused by improperly mated cocking piece to bolt body cam surfaces. Again, refurbishment is to blame. While some of it's cosmoline in the chambers, the rest of the reason needs to be addressed at the other end of the bolt.
These rifles were meant to be hand-fitted because they were designed in a time where hand fitting was cheap.
Here's a video of a hand-fitted Mosin. Please excuse the quality; I made it for a customer and only later decided to release it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_u_u4d8UYA
The same thing is true with the 1911 pistol, of which I'm also a fan. You cannot take two 1911s and expect to swap thumb safeties without a little fitting, same with the barrel, hammer sear, etc. When you do, you start having issues. This is one reason the military versions have them a bit out-of-spec, standing on the links and such when custom manufactures generally hand-fit the barrel to stand on the bottom lugs.
The Mosin is a product of its era, and has gotten a bad rep due to the influx of refurbished Mosin rifles here in the last 10-15 years.
Regards,
Josh
Timney trigger, polymer sniper stock, mildot 10x scope, bipod. It will ring steel at 300m all day long but a modern gun in 308 would make more sense, be safer, lighter etc. But it's mine, unique, and has over 100 years of history behind it (the receiver is pre-1917). 
My rifle is a cream puff laminated pre war Hex Tula. Absolutely beautiful in my eyes and she set me back a whole 159 bucks. So NO, it is not "worth it" to me to hack her up. 
