JustAnotherJoe
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- May 5, 2012
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Hi Everyone.
I'm like brand new here so please bear with me.. I just picked up a 1937 MN 91/30 made in Izhevsk from a local pawn shop and have been working with it for the last three days yet. In its currrent state, its in bad shape. Although the rifling is good the barrel is pitted, and cut down i dont know how many inches. The sights are third party Marbles sights from michigan and are missing the elevation ladder. Basically as far as i'm concerned the only good parts to the rifle are the receiver and bolt ( which i've just spent two days carefully working on to file down the rough file marks causing the bolt to bind ).
I'd like to order a new barrel for it but the videos and sites ive seen regarding head spacing have me a bit concerned. I'm not a smith in any sense of the word and I feel i may be over my head on this. I'm also not a bolt action type person. Since Nam ive mostly owned and used gas operated stuff like M-1s and SKS's. I guess i'm mostly worried about how safe a procedure this is on these old weapons. Will it be ok or am i risking blowing my fool head off??
Thanks in advance.
I'm like brand new here so please bear with me.. I just picked up a 1937 MN 91/30 made in Izhevsk from a local pawn shop and have been working with it for the last three days yet. In its currrent state, its in bad shape. Although the rifling is good the barrel is pitted, and cut down i dont know how many inches. The sights are third party Marbles sights from michigan and are missing the elevation ladder. Basically as far as i'm concerned the only good parts to the rifle are the receiver and bolt ( which i've just spent two days carefully working on to file down the rough file marks causing the bolt to bind ).
I'd like to order a new barrel for it but the videos and sites ive seen regarding head spacing have me a bit concerned. I'm not a smith in any sense of the word and I feel i may be over my head on this. I'm also not a bolt action type person. Since Nam ive mostly owned and used gas operated stuff like M-1s and SKS's. I guess i'm mostly worried about how safe a procedure this is on these old weapons. Will it be ok or am i risking blowing my fool head off??
Thanks in advance.