Potential Mosin Nagant "tacti-cool" build

stay with the stock trigger it's easy to use.

add the rsi trigger shoe if you want more modern look for 12$

also if your looking at 9130s

use the mosin plus break, it's easy to install and helps control rise and sway
 
If I were going to customize a Mosin, I would start with a Sniper model. They have decent triggers, are accurate, and you can mount a scope properly without a jerry rig sitting on top of your rifle. I am actually going this week to buy a sniper model that supposedly has a bright bore, not counter bored, hex receiver, good stock, and no rust for $175. Guess I will know for sure when I see it, but the guy that has it usually describes his stuff in worse condition than what it actually is when I actually look at it.
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I'm sorry but that's not a sniper version if he's selling for less than $200. PU snipers usually go for well over $600 and usually closer to $800 in these parts. you do bring up a good point that it's best to use a proven accurate rifle to make the build out of but you are also advocating modifying one of the rarest variants of the mosin nagant with the highest resale value and destroying the value. I know that many people do not buy guns as investments but when our kids inherit them and they are worth a tiny fraction as what they could go for because we took a lathe and a bandsaw to them... I can say I'd feel bad, knowing I could have passed on something that could pay for their kids college education and instead I gave them a piece of just that nobody wants to use.
 
Expensive, but awesome
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Here, I'll fix that for ya:
Expensive, but... well, expensive.
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:D

Listen to tahuna - not worth the time or money - not even close. The Arch Angel stock for the SKS is junk - handled one. Maybe it's better for the Mosin - I'm not sure, but I wouldn't count on it.

Mosins are wonderful - shoot them in mule-kickin stock format and enjoy the heck out of them. Screwing with them makes no sense, in my view.

If you're going to accurize something on the cheap, use a Stevens 200 (or are these even still made?)
 
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Tahuna, it is the sniper version. This man knows his commie rifles. If he says its sniper, its sniper. I asked him about the price and he said "it does not have scope or orig. mount so the collector value is not high."
This is the same person who sold me a $1200 rifle for $525 a few months ago.
 
Expensive, but... well, expensive.
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Good point, yeah it will be fairly expensive for something I don't need at all.

Screwing with them makes no sense, in my view.
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To each his own of course. I'd normally side with everyone in that screwing with an old historical rifle from WWII is of bad taste, but there's just so many mosin nagants out there, some of them in terrible shape. I think it would be interesting to show just how easy it would be to turn an old beat up mosin that would otherwise just sit in a gun shop for months, into a more modern day rifle.

I've decided that I'll definitely keep my current 91/30 the way it is and just wait until I find one for a decent price that fits my needs. It's not like I have to buy everything I need for this project at once either, I can take however long I want.
 
I polished the trigger on my Mosin and the take up and pull weight is significantly decreased, making for a better trigger.
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Thanks for the picture and tip! I think I'll actually try that on the 91/30 I currently have, and if I like it I'll skip the timney trigger and do it on my future project mosin.
 
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If you get one in crappy shape, an Obrez might be in order ;)
 
"...Buy an old Remington?..." Yep. Inexpensive Mosins will not be here forever. And their values will sky rocket just like every other milsurp. Then you'll have a valuable rifle you turned into a worthless toy.
 
That things a monstrosity.
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Depends who modifies it, and how they do it. Some are a lot prettier than others. The mosin nagant never was too much of a looker, nor was it intended to be one.
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They're utterly useless in all aspects other than sentimental, which means it's only valuable to the person who destroyed it. Unlike a stock Mosin or a good sporter (what I'm hoping you'll do at the very least) they are extremely obsolete and useless for anything. Too loud, bright, and recoils too hard for home defense, can carry it for Concealed because it is just too impractical. Awful conversation starter "Hey what's that?" "That's my rifle I completely destroyed." There's no resale value to them either. No one in their right mind would buy in one of those. It's about the worst thing you can do to a Mosin.
 
lol Mosin no need to put down what somebody else has done with their gun. They're done a lot of times where the end of the barrel has been so worn that it can't be saved, but the first 6 or 8 inches may still be good. There are literally millions of Mosin Nagants in the US, and these will see exactly as much practical use as probably half of those do in their stock or sporter form. The one in the picture is being sold with a buy it now price of $1000.00 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=440068809

Bet it's a heck of a lot of fun to shoot. I'd love to try it with the "gallery" rounds (X54R ammo loaded with a ball from a 7.62 Tokarev pistol)
 
A thousand dollars?!?! Good lord, I think I almost fainted. Whatever, it is their gun. I can't control what they do with it.
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If you read his build thread you'd know more why he wants $1000 for it. Cerakoted the whole thing. Built the brake himself, wood burned those markings by hand.
Man, this thing is going to be up in the $800+ range by the time I'm done with it. Got quite a few man hours in it.
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I wouldn't pay it, but it seems like the price is fairly justified for the amount of work put into it. Someone will pay that. The same kind of person who pays $2500-4000 for a 1903 Springfield.
 
They're utterly useless in all aspects other than sentimental, which means it's only valuable to the person who destroyed it
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or to the person that inherited it that had a personal connection to the person that destroyed it.

Awful conversation starter "Hey what's that?" "That's my rifle I completely destroyed
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not entirely true. every sporterized gun has a story. I have seen destroyed and mutilated rifles that had a story and good one. for instance a gun could have been a battlefield capture and was brought back. then that person may have done something which rendered it useless like a reloading accident or their house may have flooded and the wood rotted and all metal was pitted with rust. the sporterized appearance now could have been the result of a beautification attempt to make it workable again. there is always a story, the problem is all of us have heard too many times that a guy didn't know what he had so he chopped it up to and didn't know what he was doing or took shortcuts or didn't realize that the process was more indepth than what he was looking for.

I have done all three of those.
I've ruined a mosin nagant because I tried the cheap route and by the time I tried the expensive route it was too late to make a difference.

I've taken a receiver I found in a basement and used it to build a bubba gun only to later find out that it was a receiver from a rare sniper variant

same said job ended up being too labor/tool/time consuming and it sat half finished in my safe for the last two years and I finally just sold it to my brother for less than what the stripped receiver is worth simply because I do not have the time, money, or skills needed to finish the project nor do I want to take the trouble of tracking down a gunsmith that is willing to work on it for me.

those mosin pistols may have been guns that had the barrels blow up from firing with a blockage and they converted to a mares leg by cutting the barrel below the split.
 
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