If You Are Going To Bubba A Mosin-Nagant

I still say it's like trying to polish a turd...

35W

35 Whelen said:

I still say it's like trying to polish a turd...

35W

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And I am, hopefully, the first of many to disagree with you!

Thand is a handsome rifle!

I think they're beautiful in their military configuration. I don't like sporting rifles with their fancy blue finishes, fancy stocks, etc. Give me a soldiers rifle.

Well if MY turds polished up that good I'd keep them in the gun case too....i wonder if thats why my cat puts his in there some times....

Boyds stock looks nice on that gun, Could do without the D ring on the back, but thats personal preference and it DOES serve a purpose. Other then the Dring, thats pretty much the way I would like my nagant to end up. As it stands mine is ugly pig wearing ugly lipstick...Shoots good and handles well tho.

bubbarizing =/= sporterizing

Bubba's gun would have a red dot, a scout scope, flash light and a forward grip.

O.K. let me clarify. The rifle pictured has had some really nice work done on it; very well performed and it's very nice looking. What I meant by my statement was that you can doll up a Mosin all you want, and you still have the intrinsic design shortcomings...and I make this statement based on experience.
I went through Mosin phase and made a heck of a nice Scout rifle out of one, and an almost passable High Power rifle out of another. I figured out a way to easily and inexpensively make Mosin triggers adjustable, managed to effectively mount micrometer adjustable receiver sights on both of these rifles (and radically modified the bolt handles and receivers in doing so), mounted useful front sights, bedded, bead blasted, Parkerized, accurized and generally did everything I could think of to improve these rifles from a functional and accuracy standpoint. But after the dust and metal shavings had all settled, I realized that I had rifles that still had magazines hanging below the stock (single stack, no less), said magazines were still a pain to load with cases that have a gigantic oversized rim, and still have bolt handles that are way too far from the trigger and a split receiver among other things.

35W

I think liking/disliking the look of the extended magazine is kinda in the eye of the beholder. I like the look of them in sporter stocks, but rather dislike the way they look in the military garb. Other then that I agree with all other points, tho ive never had an issue loading my particular Mosin.

as for the reason to atempt.....well....because Personally its because i need a project, and id rather project a 40 dollar gun, then a 200 dollar gun.

Nice piece of wood. Too bad it was wasted on such an ugly piece of metal.

Bubba'ed...



Sporterized...



There is a difference!

A rifle such as posted above is an extraordinary waste of time and money, and in particular, a horrifically poor value.

In the early 2000's, unaltered M39's were still under $100. These days, there are no more left and they have appreciated to maybe $350-400. For that much, you can buy an entry level bolt action rifle with better accuracy, a comparable scope, and significantly better handling characteristics and ergonomics. If it were truly a sniper rifle as claimed, it would have been one of the rarest military rifles in world and should have been in a museum.

Then, you still need to add a $100 stock, a $100 scope mount, $190 for the Browning B.O.S.S muzzle brake, some cheesy Simmons scope, and hundreds and hundreds of dollars of gunsmithing to hold it all together.

So, by the time you are done, you have spent what, maybe $1500 on a heavy, clumsy, moderately accurate rifle with a cheesy scope that's mounted too high and that shouldn't sell for more than a few hundred dollars. It will will never significantly appreciate in value. Also, in chopping up such a rifle, you may have potentially ruined a rare, unique, and historically significant museum piece.

If you ask me, that doesn't really appear to be doing it right.

An intact war relic can be worth a hundred, or a thousand, or even more.
A bubbaed, butchered, (or sporterized) war relic is worth little more than the sum of its unmodified parts.

It's your money. Flush it if you like.

That safety ring thing is kind of awesome isn't it? I hurt my thumb trying disengaging the safety on my M44 last night. I think that's the last time I actuate the safety on that thing. It's just stiff as hell and you can't get a grip on it.

zhyla said:

That safety ring thing is kind of awesome isn't it? I hurt my thumb trying disengaging the safety on my M44 last night. I think that's the last time I actuate the safety on that thing. It's just stiff as hell and you can't get a grip on it.

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Yep. First thing I thought when I saw that is "I know what that's there for!". Might not look super cool but I bet it works real well.

that's a nice rifle. Wish I had the funds to justify doing that to mine.

There are pro's and con's with anything that is made. You can't please everyone with everything. I'm not a big fan of that particular gun, but the second picture of it does look nice.

Mosins.............they are what they are.

Sporterizing one does fall into the "polishing a turd" category to me.

But, if it's your rifle, do whatever you want to it, and don't listen to anyone else.

I guess that I'm sort of a gun libertarian.

In the early 2000's, unaltered M39's were still under $100. These days, there are no more left and they have appreciated to maybe $350-400.

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I just found M39s for under $250...

Bubba's gun would have a red dot, a scout scope, flash light and a forward grip

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Hey,if it ain't got feathers,rhinestones or deer antler on it,bubba had nothing to do with it!

Your average 1942-43 Mosin numbers near 3 million strong. Do what you like to it, it is your rifle. There are more than enough people preserving their history, do whatever you like with it.
I think that one looks very nice.

Eh, it's easier to just chop the stock. The price of hacksaws are cheap this time of year.

I like the looks, just wonder how accurate it is without the forward bands. My 91/30 delivers consistant 1MOA no matter what the country of origin for ammo. This all came about when I put thin cork shims up under the forward most band. What's a stock like that cost?

KKKKFL

I have to say that it is the nicest looking Mosin I have ever seen. But it's still a Mosin. Polished turd indeed. Waste of a good stick of walnut.

Or I could do whatever I want with my 1945 Izzy I bought for $80 bucks.