Keystone Mini Mosin

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LoonWulf said:
That would likely be doable.....tho Id be more concerned with a kid running around poking stuff, than i would them shooting stuff....I dunno, seems like it would be more likely to all end in tears.
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Too true. I remember as a little kid that I had a plastic M1 type rifle that came with a helmet, canteen, belt, and a stiff plastic bayonet.
Well, that bayonet just up and disappeared one day.
Mom said that she had no idea where it went......
 
Its neat, but there ARE .22 versions of most of those rifles already-
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Polish Wz48 .22lr single shot.
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M1922 Springfield .22lr repeater
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Enfield No7Mk1 .22 single shot.

Granted, some of these are considerably more than $400, but they are built to military standards. Wz-48s can be found in the $250-350 range. At $4-500, Keystone is kinda pricing itself out of the "cheap kids rifle" catagory and encroaching on actual military trainer territory.
 
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They also plan to do a few other rifles,,,
If I read their website correctly there are five planned.

I e-mailed them asking for them to hurry up on the K-98 Mauser version,,,
I'll be first in line to purchase one of those.

I own a WW-II bringback K-98 in very nice condition,,,
In a few years I'll be gifting it to my best friend.

It would be nice to have it paired with a Mini K-98 for his grand-kids to shoot.

Aarond

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NIGHTLORD40K said:
Its neat, but there ARE .22 versions of most of those rifles already-
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Polish Wz48 .22lr single shot.
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M1922 Springfield .22lr repeater
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Enfield No7Mk1 .22 single shot.

Granted, some of these are considerably more than $400, but they are built to military standards. Wz-48s can be found in the $250-350 range. At $4-500, Keystone is kinda pricing itself out of the "cheap kids rifle" catagory......
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I have two of the Polish Wz48's in my collection. They are great shooters.

I just got a call from Kestone. They said that the pre-order rifles are selling fast, much faster then they thought they would. I was also able to pick my SN# from what ever was left from the numbers from 1 to 500. I told him to just give me the lowest number, which ended up being 142.
I asked about the approx. ship date and was told sometime in the third of forth quarter of this year.
I asked which rifle they would be making next and was told that they they would release that info at next years NRA show. So start saving your pennies.
 
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aarondhgraham said:
They also plan to do a few other rifles,,,
If I read their website correctly there are five planned.

I e-mailed them asking for them to hurry up on the K-98 Mauser version,,,
I'll be first in line to purchase one of those.

I own a WW-II bringback K-98 in very nice condition,,,
In a few years I'll be gifting it to my best friend.

It would be nice to have it paired with a Mini K-98 for his grand-kids to shoot.

Aarond

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There are many, many K98 .22s out there already-though they may take a little searching to find. This one's a Norinco TU.
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Heres a French MAS45 .22 "Mauser" repeater.
 
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There are many, many K98 .22s out there already-though they may take a little searching to find. This one's a Norinco TU.
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Heres a French MAS45 .22 "Mauser" repeater.
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The thing about the rifles you are posting is, they art not scaled down models. Most of them are full size rifles that were built to converted for training purposes.
The Mini Mosin is not a trainer.
 
A mini 1903A3 Springfield would be alright. I own a Crickett, good little rifle. Too rich for my blood, but still pretty neat stuff.
 
The grandsons Cricket Arctic Warfare stocked heavy barreled, bipod’d and topped with a cheap but very good so far nameless scope.
I would hope the Mosin would be a decent quality shooter.

As for full size .22lr trainers, my M 69 Romainina trainer is a favorite do all rifle, gotta love its rugged build, except the sling swivels, accuracy and handy carry.
I fixed my sling swivels by installing Carcano swivel mounts and tossed the Romanian plastic sling and plopped a Finnish leather Mosin sling on.
 
The 5 rifles that Keystone plans would all have to bolt actions of course, and familiar to most people.
Sheer speculation for #2-5, I know, but....
#1 - Mosin Nagant
#2 - K98 Mauser
#3 - Lee Enfield SMLE
#4 - 1903 Springfield
#5 - Lee Enfield #4
This would make a great collector series.
 
They would go great with the miniature .50 M2 in .22 mag and the Browning A4 in .22 lr belt feds.

I’ve been researching a build of cannons, and quasi engineering designs and materials for some firing miniatures, based on the country and caliber.
Single shot and long enough to legally be called rifles, with folding stocks.....

A Russian 76.2 ZIS anti tank cannon in 7.62x54r
A British 6pound cannon in .303 Brit,
An American 75mm in 30-06
A German 88 in 8mm Mauser, etc.
 
caribou said:
They would go great with the miniature .50 M2 in .22 mag and the Browning A4 in .22 lr belt feds.

I’ve been researching a build of cannons, and quasi engineering designs and materials for some firing miniatures, based on the country and caliber.
Single shot and long enough to legally be called rifles, with folding stocks.....

A Russian 76.2 ZIS anti tank cannon in 7.62x54r
A British 6pound cannon in .303 Brit,
An American 75mm in 30-06
A German 88 in 8mm Mauser, etc.
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Make them all 1/2 scale bored to 1.7 inches. 1.68 inch balls are easily found used with little red stripes on them, and wadding would be easy enough...
 
Reminds me of when my family went to Mexico city many yrs ago and we came upon this gun shop, actually a miniature gun shop. They had 22 cal lever guns, and miniature cannons and even 22 and smaller caliber B/P revolvers in both Colt and Remington style, sadly they were all limited edition and priced as such. My brother and I ended up with the only thing affordable; a 25 cal smooth bore brass cannon in a glass top box for $10. I still have the cannon and the memories of actually handling the many limited edition working miniatures.
 
I had a Cricket for the kids and junked it because the manual cocking proved to be very frustrating. Too hard for them to operate. I wish, like most bolt actions, it cocked as part of bolt open or close.

I suspect since this Mini-Mosen is based on their other .22lr's that it too will be a manual cocking. Not a problem for adults, other than the extra step, but a pain for smaller kids.
 
I think this is really a very good thing. Most of the "real" trainers are not sized for little kids, just too heavy and too big, this thing is made special for them and anything that gets kids interested in this is a good thing.

I also have a WZ and really think it is a fun gun to shoot, but for a little kid it is still too big....at 10-ish I think they could shoot some of the smaller military trainers....but others are the size and weight of the "real deal"
 
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