I will have to take pictures of the thing to brag about it. But, if it is worth at the bottom end, $500 to $600, then I bought something that has increased in value 100 times. Not bad.
I don't understand the "Purest" types, I want to shoot my guns, I want them to be functionally perfect and as accurate as they can be. I mean, why own a rifle that you won't shoot?. They make heavy paperweights. There are only a couple of military rifles I own that I have not zero'd at the range, added taller front sights if need be, adjusted the triggers to a clean pull.
This is one: A "Z" marked M1903A4.
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Shooting it would be pointless, though, it is not like I don't understand what a M1903A3/A4 barrel will do. I have the mounts and a late model scope, so, I might shoot it. If I do, I will have to bed the action as the bedding is shot.
I have a M1D in the original CMP wrap and all the accessories in the wrap, plus the CMP box. I have shot original M1D's, was not impressed with the accuracy, so I decided to leave mine in the wrap. Someone will be happy with it, as a paperweight.
I am such a vandal. I hope the Purest Collector's cry at my estate sale. It would tickle me pink to see their reaction to all the bedded, altered military rifles I have, and the profit they lost, by me shooting my rifles.
Says you. Until it is made law, and it is enforced by the state, I can and will call a Mosin Nagant a "
Nagant", "
Nagant rifle", a "
Mosin", "
Mosin rifle",or a
Mosin Nagant, depending on how I feel. Ain't freedom wonderful?