I did this. I removed the rear sight slide and removed material. I also removed some material from the receiver that the sight slides on, reblued it and you can't tell anything. It also slides easily now. I also drifte the front sight post and sighted it in with the bayonet removed.Flip the rear sight over and file the ramp down until it zeros. Invisible mod.
Anyone have any tips on how to raise the front sight pin on my Mosin Nagant #44.My rear site is all the way down and the rifle is hiting 5 inches high at 50 yards. thanks hdbiker
Tolkachi Robotnik said:You might try painting something on top of the front blade. That would be the same as pulling down on it farther.
In battle they were usually set up to shoot at mid-point or belt line. Some will go a foot high at 100 arshins.
Flip the rear sight over and file the ramp down until it zeros. Invisible mod.
It's much easier to get a high front sight post or mojos. And you can do either with no permanent mods. For example I bought one of these Polish M44's for $150 a few decades ago. Now look at what the price is doing:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=357367574
This would look convincing if the rifle could be re-zeroed after the bayonet removal. Many Mosins - in my experience - shoot way high at the lowest range setting. There is no room left for adjustment. And if you think the Russian Imperial and then Red Army was content to have the rifles hopelessly off target in the absence of the bayonet, you are facing a court martial. Who will want to hook up a bayonet just to shoot accurately, except for a re-enactor? By the way my M44 shot 4" high out of the crate with the bayonet on (it was remedied by a rear sight job)Hello,
HDBiker, mount the bayonet. Taking the bayonet off will make the rifle shoot high and sometimes right. Russian (and later, Soviet) doctrine had the bayonet attached at all times except for storage or troop transport in a motor vehicle. Especially during its inception, the rifle was still largely viewed in Europe as a vehicle for the bayonet. Russia was no exception, and this is why, when you look at that time period, you see looong rifles and looong bayonets.
Removing the bayonet simply changed your barrel's harmonics and therefore, its point-of-impact.
I have some articles at my website, http://smith-sights.com , if you wish to stop by. I charge nothing for reading them, of course, and they're the accumulation of my research and experimentation thus far.
Regards,
Josh
Is that for real?
Most Mosins are not exactly collectibles.