Mosin Nagant Issue

[DPris]

The particular rifle of mine that has to be malleted open does it with surplus AND US-made steel-cased rounds.
If the design had a longer bolt handle & it was bent, there'd be much better leverage.
I had a longer and angled bolt installed on one of my Mosins, makes a world of difference.

Denis

 

[monotonous_iterancy]

I would recommend that you take the bolt apart and wipe away anything that even remotely resembles cosmoline. Even a little bit will turn to glue as it gets hot, which is why it gets stickier the more you fire it.

 

[foghornl]

When shooting Mosin-Nagant rifle, bolt works you.....

My Romanian M-44 (1954 vintage) had the sticky-bolt syndrome untill I soaked the bolt overnight in Mineral Spirits, and used the 20-ga brush in the drill method. Last bit of work was just a quick touch of Flitz! on a properly-sized 'wool mop' in the drill.

 

[Orion8472]

I guess this wasn't much of an issue, back when they were using them in war, because they hadn't been cosmolined at that time, right? However, did they use lacquered cartridges back then and did that mean they were constantly trying to clean that crap out of their chambers?

By the way, I DO have an M-44 with a fair amount of cosmoline under the wood. Does that "break cleaner" method reallly work? How much, . . . how long, and what is the best way to attack it once it has been sprayed on there?