Custom Mosin build. Need help with caliber. Don’t hate.

theotherwaldo said:

How about keeping it simple?
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Go Finn.
On EBay right now for under $75 right now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Finnish-M39-Mosin-Nagant-Surplus-Heavy-Barrel-With-Sights-7-62x54r-1941-SAKO/372648889238?hash=item56c39acb96:g:f3wAAOSwy2NcrMuL

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I saw that. Seen a few actually. Kinda takes the fun out of it though.

Varminterror said:

Monetize it and let it be someone else’s problem - problem solved.

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It’s not a problem if you find it fun. And I do. Found a place. They have the action now. McGown has it for a new barrel. I am going to be sticking with 762x54r. I can actually make it 45-70!pretty easily. But I just don’t shoot 45-70 as much anymore. Going to have some fun with 762 with an nice sporter.

http://forums.nitroexpress.com/printthread.php?Board=classicarchive&main=241824&type=post

Here is an example of a fun build. I won’t whole nine yards like this. But can still have some fun with this.

So here is Where I stand. I have ordered a cheap discounted Boyd’s gun stock. It’s there prairie hunter that some was selling on eBay for cheap. A timiny trigger I’m going to pick out and order some express sights from New England gun works and have some fun. Chamber is going to stay 762x54. I’ve ordered some reloading dies too. Going to learn a new cartridge.

Going to trim it down to 24 inch. That seems to be a good length for both long distance shots and stalking. Anymore then that won’t provide much gain and less seems to just mostly makes more noise and fire balls.

Well the Boyd’s showed up. It’s going to need some inletting for this action. I heard back on my other action and they are 6 months out on a new barrel. So I’m going to start with this one and when the new one shows up just get another stock or fit it this one. The Timney trigger feels better. In these pics you can see that the lower needs quite a bit of fitting and the upper needs just a bit. I have not cut the barrel yet. Between work, going back to college, and being a busy uncle I’ve not touched this in three weeks. I will say that the length of the barrel is not to bad. May cut it just behind the front sight since I have new front and rear traditional sights on order. I figure I can practice silver soldering on this one as the barrel rifling is truely trashed and prints about 1 foot or more at 100 yards. It’s not a smooth bore yet lol. But what rounds I have recovered have little groove marks compared to my other Mosins. For the action getting a new barrel it will the nice New England Custom Gunsworks sights.

LRDGCO said:

That's some good looking Ethan Allen you got there!

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Lol. Yup

LRDGCO said:

That's some good looking Ethan Allen you got there!

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I didn’t want the sling studs or butt pad. This was an eBay buy. Turns out even after calling them I can’t get it with out them.

So it took six hours and a tube of lip stick to fit. But the rifle is fitted and feeding as well as a mosin ever has. The top fitted pretty much just fine right out of the box. The bottom didn’t fit at all. The front back didn’t fit a single bit. Furthermore the front lug screw holt is drill at the wrong angle so the screw would not mount. So I had to widen the entire cut out for the lower trigger guard/mag. Depthsr was spot on. Neither the upper or lower needed any depth work. That took the longest to sort out. I do have pillars for puller bedding. And a glass bedding kit. That will happen later. Right now the rifle looks like a rifle again and shoots. The front of the stock around for end looks like crap as far as fitting goes. Way to much of a gap. But I’m kinda stuck with it.

Here is the fore end.

TRX said:

> So, is the Mosin action strong enough for 35 Whelen?

No problemo. The Mosin action might well exceed the Arisaka for strength. And the .35 should be an easy conversion; a century ago Bannerman did a bunch of conversions to .30-06 with minimal work and no problems with feeding from the magazine.

The Bannerman conversions had a bad reputation because they Bubba'd the job, running an '06 reamer up the Mosin barrel. Unfortunately the shoulder on the '06 is larger in diameter and farther forward than the 54R, and there was seldom more than .050" of barrel wall there. Sometimes less. Sometimes a lot less, with ugly results. No problem when you're using a new barrel, of course.

If you want more cowbell, Tony Rumore at Tromix built a Mosin in .500 S&W. You could contact him through his web site and see if he put up build pictures anywhere; he often details builds on various forums.

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Huh. Never thought of 500s&w. I would love to see the bolt head of the 30-06 mosin to compare it to stock and see what all needs done.