M1895 Nagant as low cost ccw revolver?

[smle41]

91/30
As a stopgap, certainly.. even if that would be "it", do it, as, after all, it's a gun, so it means the basic criteria of 'having a gun'. I treat mine as a 'single action', so the trigger is more manageable, and they are inexpensive alternatives to things (such as a hi point) that, as you noted, don't 'fit you'.
Get one, you won't go wrong.

 

[CarbineWilliams]

As I understand it, Nagant is a Belgium company and Belgium is a country that holds all of their corps to high standards FWIS.

I will say that I have fired several hundred thousand rounds from multiple FN Herstal M240C's and when I treated them right they never jammed, and of course I'm still here so they never blew up... they were about six inches to left of my head.

If you have an early Nagant made in Belgium, then I think it's a great weapon. If it is a later one made in the USSR, then I don't know.

The best attribute of any revolver is reliability (else buy a semi). Belgs make good guns, otherwise Browning wouldn't have trusted them. Once Nagant let them be made in USSR then I'm not sure. I've heard good things about Soviet Nagants, though.

 

[Onmilo]

Was at an LGS in Pekin this a.m. They had 4 Nagant rebuilds with holsters and all the other stuff. $180 rounded + tax and call and they ain't coming off the price but they don't out and out rob people either.
Two boxes of Privi ammo, (Store Limit on handgun ammo per day) cost me $58 bucks out the door.

Again, so much for low cost now,,,,