Let's rave about the Mosin Nagant rifle

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Hello friends and neighbors // Thanks, I see the sniper bolts are available ,but you have to do some drilling and tapping on an Infantry rifle to mount a scope. Easier to buy a sniper model for me.
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Try www.advancedrifleparts.com for a no gunsmithing mount that really works. I don't have any financial interest in them, but I use one of their mounts on my 91/30. It has stayed put and held zero for over 1000 rounds of all sorts of surplus ammo plus my own handloads.

It ain't cheap, but it's cheaper than buying a PU sniper and you can put any glass you want on it.
 
For me, surplus rifle = inexpensive. So, it came down to the MN and a Yugo Mauser. When I looked at the ammo, I found I could stack deeper and cheaper with the MN.

I got an M44, an extra barrel for it, and a 91/30 parts gun with a crapload of ammo for 400-. :)

They will both do the job well at 200 meters. I haven't shot beyond that.
 
Hello friends and neighbors //KSCCHTrainer I like the mount.

It looks as though you also need to buy the proper rail. Even though the mount is an expensive accesory for a $90.00 rifle it might get put on the "list". I can then switch one of my scopes to the Mosin for Whitetail this season....humm..
 
Where are the pics? I demand MOAR PICS!

I'd rant and rave about a Mosin, but seeing as I kaboomed! one last fall I think I need to keep my unholy clutches away from one. At least until next fall.
 
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You KB'd a Mosin? How?
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I was trying to match what mag30th is doing. I tried a synthetic stock that was glass-bedded, left the barrel free-floating, etc. Nothing worked, so I went his way and tried reloading. That's actually the ONLY thing he's doing besides being a reincarnation Vasily Zaytsev.

Well, the first gun I've ever reloaded for was that Mosin. I got a little liberal with the amount of powder I used and you can guess what happened from there.

I've completely abstained from reloading since then. Thank God I didn't try reloading for my Enfields or I'd really be crying.
 
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you can guess what happened from there.
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Any number of things--but I'd love to see details and photos. It's not every day a Mosin is actually blown up. What gave way? Did the gas vent through the magazine? What happened to the bolt?
 
No reason to abstain, man, just realize how dangerous it is and be careful next time.

I've barely been reloading for a month now (.45acp), and it's super fun, but baby steps is the WORD. :D
 
just realize how dangerous it is and be careful next time
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I was thinking of reloading at one time but read something that stuck with me.

I can't remember it exactly but it went something like......

Think of reloading as a math test and if you get the wrong answer, you lose appendages.

I suck at math. :D
 
I have an M38 and a Finn M39. Simple beauty with a kick to remind they must be female.
 
Cosmoline said:
Any number of things--but I'd love to see details and photos. It's not every day a Mosin is actually blown up. What gave way? Did the gas vent through the magazine? What happened to the bolt?
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I don't know if I still have the pictures. Maybe my friends do. I was a little upset as you'd imagine and sort of cleansed my harddrive of all trace of the rifle sans what it looked like when I bought it.

I'll try to describe what it looked like. The magazine simply left the receiver/action :scrutiny: . The pins broke/were seared in half. The barrel had a hole in it and from the action forward to about half-way down the rifle it was cracked/opened up. I guessed something must have been left in the barrel but the two rounds prior to the KB would testify otherwise. And how would a blocked barrel explain the magazine? I didn't really look at the action and bolt. By the time we had come to the conclusion I had experience my first kaboom! I wanted to throw the entire rifle away.

In the end it must have been to heavy of bullet (200 gr) plus to much powder (I can't find my formula/sheet right now :confused:). Combine those with a 60+ year old rifle and today I know I was just begging for it. It would of also have helped if I actually measured the powder precisely each time instead of eye-balling it. :(
 
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I was thinking of reloading at one time but read something that stuck with me.

I can't remember it exactly but it went something like......

Think of reloading as a math test and if you get the wrong answer, you lose appendages.

I suck at math.
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Hahaha, that's a good one.

In that case, think of load books as cheat sheets, and you're golden.
 
The magazine simply left the receiver/action . The pins broke/were seared in half. The barrel had a hole in it and from the action forward to about half-way down the rifle it was cracked/opened up. I guessed something must have been left in the barrel but the two rounds prior to the KB would testify otherwise. And how would a blocked barrel explain the magazine? I didn't really look at the action and bolt. By the time we had come to the conclusion I had experience my first kaboom! I wanted to throw the entire rifle away.
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That's what's supposed to happen, if I read you correctly. The gas is vented down through the magazine well, blowing it out. This is preferable to having it destroy your eyeball. And it sounds like the bolt held, which is great. If you walked away from it, the rifle functioned perfectly.* But it's a crying shame you didn't keep pictures. Mosin KB's are very unusual and not easy to recreate.

*There are surplus rifles that don't. When that happens with one of these, the shooter gets a bolt fired through his head like a crossbow, killing him.
 
I just have to jump on the band wagon here. I picked up my Mosin as my first firearm and I love it. Paid $120 for the M91/30, ~50 rounds of Brown Bear ammo and a Picatinny rail that replaces the rear leaf sight. I've put around 100 rounds through it and I can say that it is pretty much a tack driver.

Only downside to it is no matter what I shoot through it I have to spend 2+ hours cleaning it to get the bored back to a mirror. I've shot a few different types of ammo through it and ever time it's the same, hour after hour of scrubbing to get the bore nice and shiney again.

Can't wait to take this thing camping with me next month. I haven't had a chance ot shoot it over 50 yards yet but hte cmap ground has a nice 100 and 200 yard alley. I just hope there itsn't a line of people waiting to shoot.
 
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