Your gun, do as you wish with it. When you are done, though, the chances are that you will have turned a useable old carbine into a worthless POS.
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LOL How ironic...I thought he was trying to turn a worthless old POS into a useable carbine... I own an M-44 and in it's military guise, it's about as impractical and unuseable as any rifle I've ever owned. Enter Dr. Bubba.
CZ42, I bought an old rusty M44 with the intent of making it something practical. I started working on it last winter, but when the days get longer and warmer, I leave the depths of my shop and spend most of my time outside. As soon as it cools off and starts getting dark earlier, I'll finish the rifle. Here are some of the things I've done and plan to do:
1: the trigger job:
2¢, No Creep, Adjustable Mosin Trigger
2: I carefully filed down the right side of the reciever behind the bolt until that portion of the reciever was the same height front to back. I got this idea from pictures I saw of a Mosin super-duper target rifle that had been modified by the Finn's in such a manner.
3: I cut off the bolt handle and made a butterknife type handle to take its place.
4: I will be mounting a receiver type aperture sight on this rifle. Steps 2 & 3 will allow the bolt handle to slide under the sight when the bolt is worked.
5: I took the original front sight base, off, hacksawed off the ears, ground off the sight base, then turned it in my lathe until I could slip on a sight either off a 1903A3 Spingfield or off a Finnish M39. Either is a VAST improvement over the original Mosin sight, plus you can adjust your front sight so that your rear sight can be high enough to allow th bolt handle to clear.
6: Went to eBay and bought a Scout type scope mount that takes the place of the original rear sight leaf. Also purchased a handgun EER scope for the Scout mount.
When finished, I'll have a rifle that will be practical; a rifle that I can use day to day. When I do get back to work on it, I'll be writing an article complete with pictures, detailing all the modifications. Much like the sticky I did on the 2¢ trigger, only much more detail.
Sorry, can't help you with the tacticool stuff...I'm sort of a traditional guy
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