Chinese Type 53 Mosin

Even the Type 53's with chu wood stocks the look 'chewed' go for over $300 these days. I paid $30 for mine sometime ago, traded it for a Ford Ranger for my son. (along with my son's bow, which he never used.)

Got to look at the bore, a lot of sewer pipe barrels on mosins. I'm in my mid 30s but I can remember $79 mosins with dozens to choose from at that price, I only ventured to buy one , which I didn't like and didn't keep it. I didn't buy any more. I've seen decent mosins but the cheap ammo is less available , you can find a brand new savage for a little bit more that is 10x the rifle and it's much more likely to shoot well.

From watching fellas shoot them the Chinese Moisin carbines seem to have a recoil best described as "stout".

Commercial or hand loaded ammo might improve that. They were all shooting Chinese surplus I believe.

That’s a good price for them. The T-53s start at $300+ around here in any condition and private sale. They would go for higher at a shop.

Speaking of Mosins, A Polish M-44 sold at the shop I frequent for $800. I would have been interested for the going rate of 4-500. It was on consignment and the owner was real proud of it. I guess he was smarter than I thought.

Dunross said:

From watching fellas shoot them the Chinese Moisin carbines seem to have a recoil best described as "stout".

Commercial or hand loaded ammo might improve that. They were all shooting Chinese surplus I believe.

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If you hand load, you can make some nice plinking ammo with 123 gr. AK bullets. Data is hard to find but a search of https://russian-mosin-nagant-forum.com/ will bring up a couple; that's where I got them. Or you could find some Czech 46 gr. training ammo. All bark (LOUD!) but no bite.

A little heavy, but the Mosin carbine is a performer.(M44, T53, etc.) OTOH, most of the Chinese ones I've seen are very rough. These M44 types were cloned by Poland, Romania, and a couple other Iron Curtain countries I don't recall, at the moment, right after WWII. There are fairly clean units available, and while I might be interested in a clean Chinese
T-53, the ones I've seen, I wouldn't buy ANY firearm, in that poor condition.