coosbaycreep
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Big 5 sporting goods has had mosin nagants for sale lately, and in the past three weeks, I picked up a m44 and a 91/30, and a tin of cheap ammo for them from ammoman. I've only put one pack of ammo through each of them (20rds?), but I had one round with the m44 that I had to pry the bolt open by using my car for leverage. With the long mosin, I had to hit the bolt on rocks and stuff about 3 out of every 5 rounds to unload it. Half the time the empty case would be stuck in the chamber too, and I would have to shove the cleaning rod down the barrel really hard to get it out.
Even when these guns don't completely freeze up, I still have to smack the bolt really hard to chamber another round. I know mosins are one of the most widely used and combat proven weapons of all time, but I can't see any normal sized dude being able to even shoot one of these things in the prone position with the effort required to work the bolt sometimes. Both of my mosins are imported by century, and I know they have a bad rep for messing up AKs (I have a romanian SAR-1 that works excellent though), but is there something they've done to these rifles when they import them that makes them so difficult to use?
Other than the excessive cosmoline crap getting all over me everytime I handle them, these guns are the best deal going for the money without a doubt, I just wish the bolt wasn't so screwed up. Up until just recently, I always thought milsurps were pretty lame. I sold a Mauser last year, and kinda regret it now. There was a Hakim I missed out on at a local gunstore recently too that I wish I would've had the money for. Two mosins will be enough for me I think, but I seen some enfields at the gunshow this weekend, and I think I might have to get one of those crude looking things eventually too.
So am I just too weak and sissified to be trying to shoot the mighty Mosin Nagant? Or did Russian soldiers have to take a time out inbetween shots at Germans during Stalingrad to hit the bolt of their rifles on a slab of concrete to open the bolt, then spend another couple of minutes unscrewing the cleaning rod and using it to get the empty shell out of the chamber everytime?
Also, if this question has already been asked before I apologize, the mosin thread is 24 pages long, and I have the attention span of a gnat.
Even when these guns don't completely freeze up, I still have to smack the bolt really hard to chamber another round. I know mosins are one of the most widely used and combat proven weapons of all time, but I can't see any normal sized dude being able to even shoot one of these things in the prone position with the effort required to work the bolt sometimes. Both of my mosins are imported by century, and I know they have a bad rep for messing up AKs (I have a romanian SAR-1 that works excellent though), but is there something they've done to these rifles when they import them that makes them so difficult to use?
Other than the excessive cosmoline crap getting all over me everytime I handle them, these guns are the best deal going for the money without a doubt, I just wish the bolt wasn't so screwed up. Up until just recently, I always thought milsurps were pretty lame. I sold a Mauser last year, and kinda regret it now. There was a Hakim I missed out on at a local gunstore recently too that I wish I would've had the money for. Two mosins will be enough for me I think, but I seen some enfields at the gunshow this weekend, and I think I might have to get one of those crude looking things eventually too.
So am I just too weak and sissified to be trying to shoot the mighty Mosin Nagant? Or did Russian soldiers have to take a time out inbetween shots at Germans during Stalingrad to hit the bolt of their rifles on a slab of concrete to open the bolt, then spend another couple of minutes unscrewing the cleaning rod and using it to get the empty shell out of the chamber everytime?
Also, if this question has already been asked before I apologize, the mosin thread is 24 pages long, and I have the attention span of a gnat.
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