gsbuickman
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Hiya Guy's ..
After all this time, after my ex picked up and left a few years ago & I was forced to sell my gun collection to get back on my feet again & all the nice Mosins here locally have dried up and / or disappeared all together, a Mosin carbine actually followed me home today .
Granted it's not the 91/59, type 53 or 38 like I once had, it is however a 946r Russian M44 from the Izzy arsenal. It's all numbers matching with the exception of the door on the box magazine. I've been after a mosin, almost any mosin for a couple years now since I started to rebuild and put together a new collection.
Unfortunately the mosin scene here locally has practically dried up and blown away. About the only mosins that have popped up on the local gun grapevine have been 91/30's that bubba has cut up and trashed for $250 - $300 or an M44 (usually Hungarian) with a shot out barrel that was counterbored for $350 - #400 .
I just happen to be perusing the local gun Grapevine early this morning while I was enjoying my coffee when this M44 popped up for sale, I jumped on it and touched bases with the guy and he said he'd get back to me after work this evening. Well, can you find Lee got back to me and we got to discussing this and that and everything else and in the process I found out that Bubba had gotten ahold of this but the only thing that was altered was the forend. It had been whacked off right at the taper but he only wanted $200 for it, and it came with 65 rounds of Surplus Ammo & an unmolested 91/30 stock. Needless to say even with the stock being chopped like it was it was still the best deal that I had seen in a long long time so I pulled the trigger on it and let it follow me home ...
After all this time, after my ex picked up and left a few years ago & I was forced to sell my gun collection to get back on my feet again & all the nice Mosins here locally have dried up and / or disappeared all together, a Mosin carbine actually followed me home today .
Granted it's not the 91/59, type 53 or 38 like I once had, it is however a 946r Russian M44 from the Izzy arsenal. It's all numbers matching with the exception of the door on the box magazine. I've been after a mosin, almost any mosin for a couple years now since I started to rebuild and put together a new collection.
Unfortunately the mosin scene here locally has practically dried up and blown away. About the only mosins that have popped up on the local gun grapevine have been 91/30's that bubba has cut up and trashed for $250 - $300 or an M44 (usually Hungarian) with a shot out barrel that was counterbored for $350 - #400 .
I just happen to be perusing the local gun Grapevine early this morning while I was enjoying my coffee when this M44 popped up for sale, I jumped on it and touched bases with the guy and he said he'd get back to me after work this evening. Well, can you find Lee got back to me and we got to discussing this and that and everything else and in the process I found out that Bubba had gotten ahold of this but the only thing that was altered was the forend. It had been whacked off right at the taper but he only wanted $200 for it, and it came with 65 rounds of Surplus Ammo & an unmolested 91/30 stock. Needless to say even with the stock being chopped like it was it was still the best deal that I had seen in a long long time so I pulled the trigger on it and let it follow me home ...