henrifirstman
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Okay, so I am a Mosin enthusiast and I own one 91/59 carbine (1943 izzy).
It's fine.
My friend however has a 1939 Tula 91/30.
He was having issues extracting/ejecting.
He would fire a round and it would work just fine (according to him) but he couldn't extract it.
I cleaned the hell out of it and got all the cosmoline out.
I decided to load a couple of empty 7.62x54r shells into the chamber with his rifle. ( a few surplus russian brass and one steel wolf case.
None of these would fit into the chamber and the bolt would not close. I tried pushing the shell into the chamber with my fingers and ended up having to push them back out with a cleaning rod.
His chamber looks different than mine too which is weird. (it sort of tapers into the barrel a little more drastically if that makes sense. i dont know how else to explain it.)
I think his chamber is smaller. WHY!!!!???? :banghead:
I heard somewhere than the Finns rebarreled some Mosins but this looks all Soviet to me.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.