Am I crazy? Or, "The SBR'ed MN 91/30"

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Kaylee - already have a cut-down MN that was left in a deer stand over a year or more - it was a POS when I got it, and I cleaned it up. The bore past about 12 inches from the chamber is completely pitted to death, though.


As for stock vs. no stock, well, it's an SBR, and I have an extra stock here. I'll probably use it in both configs.
 
Man, if you pull that trigger, you got a mucb bigger pair of kahunas than I do.
 
The way I figure it is as follows - the TC single shot pistols have been chambered with 10" barrels in .308, and this is about the same, though a bit heavier. It really shouldn't be horrible to fire.
 
Mosins for deer..

I bet a Mosin left in a deerstand for a year shoots the same as it did the year before. The guy MAY have left it there on purpose and was coming BACK this year!

All the Jews needed was about another 1000 cut down Mosins and the Nazis would have had to sue for peace. That's a very honorable rifle.

Going doe tag shooting in the morning. My brother who hasn't shot a deer in 30 years is going to tote his Dragonov. I'm taking a nice walnut K31 that I won the Texas Vintage Military Rifle Championship with or an Argentine 1909 Carbine with some 7.65 handloads.
 
Blackfork - it was rusted shut. The bore is pitted. The receiver was badly pitted. The crown was ruined, and the mag springs had to be replaced, along with other small parts.


If he was coming back and expecting to use it, BOY he would've been in for a surprise. It took me hours to even get it cylcing properly.
 
I'd be inclined to take a trashy rusty sewer pipe bore gun and do this to it, then plug the barrel with lead to render it non functional (without telling my friends) and just carve "BMF" on the side and use it as a wall hanger. Let the BS stories begin!


"I shot it occasionally for the novelty of it. Used to load it with Czech silvertip and bet guys $100 they wouldn't shoot it twice. Yep, that gun earned its keep..."


gp911
 
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its a SBR witha 200 build tax and a 200 transfer tax. this is because it was a rifle ( full stock) if it started life as a reciever having never touched a stock, and then was cut down and registered then it could be a AOW with the 200$ build tax and 5 $ transfer. Or so is my understanding.

hankdatank1362
Once a rifle, ALWAYS a rifle. once a stock has been put on a gun, its a rifle. see above :D
 
If you could find a virgin receiver that had never been built into a complete firearm, you could do a pistol build with it.
 
No_Brakes23.... do you want the bad news?


This wasn't a Finn, as far as I can tell..... it was an ex-sniper rifle, complete with the neatly plugged holes in the receiver. :banghead:


gp911 - I pay the $200 tax, I'm going to use it!
 
No_Brakes23.... do you want the bad news?

This wasn't a Finn, as far as I can tell..... it was an ex-sniper rifle, complete with the neatly plugged holes in the receiver.
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Ex-sniper MNs aren't particularly rare or valuable. They are just an interesting historical footnote like the Mark I 1903s.
 
Wow....like....Wow....

I would think it would be great for room clearing...With full power loads, the muzzleblast alone would probably take out everyone in a small room (including the shooter!):what:
 
@ sailorjosh:

You found the Osprey kulak/obryez drawing! You rock.

Can we vote to grant sailorjosh Senior Membership with only 3 posts?

-MV
 
A bit of perspective as to the horrendous unfairness of the $200 SRB tax.

Yes, it does bite that we have to pay the tax. Yes, it is silly to pay a $200 tax just to cut the barrel down on a $75 gun.

However, how much gun NIB does $275 get you? Maybe a Kel-Tec.

Lots of good stuff on the used market, but that aside, $275 doesn't buy you much these days.

Heck, even if there were no NFA tax, it'd cost you easily $275 to make a cut-down out of any non-milsurp rifle. Plus you'd look dang silly running around with a synthetic/stainless 10" Rem700.

Just depends whether you feel that $275 is fair for a decent Obryez.

The book "Hunting for Handgunners" had an article by a shooter who carried a sawed-off Springfield 1903 while working in Nicaragua in the 1960s. I'd cite it, but I just sold the book to a THR member 2 days ago.

-MV
 
I want to see one with the buttstock intact. It would, quite literally, be a boomstick.

Too bad ATI doesn't make a folding stock for Mosins. :D
 
would probibly make a "mount" with basic machine skills, a frame around the reciever to mimic the stock. with mounts for a folder and pistol grip... or just use a hack saw and wood screws the the original stock :rolleyes:

although i advise anyone out there that wants to do this. do it with a "bubb'ed" gun. dont ruin a perfectly good rifle
 
Since there's going to be a $200 tax to do this, I don't really mind either way what gun it's done to. I certainly wouldn't do it to an 1895 receiver, but a regular MN, whatever. I'll have to dredge this thread up in a few months once I decide how to make it.
 
Can we vote to grant sailorjosh Senior Membership with only 3 posts?

-MV
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I second the motion. Sailorjosh - You are totally rock! That is a great find on the drawing.

-Pat.
 
What would be the leagleties of doing something like this with a Mauser reciver? You can pick them up, just the reciver (sometimes barrel), could you then cut it down, (or add a short barrel), and then throw it in a cut down old stock? You don't need a NFA $200 transfer for AR 15 pistols, do you? This would be simaler woud it not?
 
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