eh
no big deal. i don't lock and unlock my MNs like they do in the movies. there, you grasp the little knob with three fingers, push forward, down... pull up, back..
i just take the meat of my hand and smack that puppy forward, then raise my hand to the left and smack the whole handle down, as if i was smacking a little kid asking for candy too many times.
then smack it up, open handed again, and grab that puppy with your whole hand and yank it back hard so that the case goes flying...
of course, i also took nearly four days cleaning the gun when i first got it. took it down to its itty bitty parts, put em all in the oven except for the barrel, and put THAT outside where the sun took good care of it.
i also shoot czech silvertip. dirty and inaccurate as heck but hey, i'm not at a competition.. i just want to feel the boom of a wwii relic.
i have one 91/30, though, that has an extractor that's FLAT as opposed to slightly curved. that one is a real beauty, but also a real pain to action. probably will order another bolt head from TNGP, even though i've been told that it's not quite a good idea to go about swapping bolt heads... whatever.
USSR made stuff is made to LAST.