Mosin Nagant Questions

[caribou]

The best way to use the safety is to start with the rifles butt to the right shoulder and holding it as if the raise it to fire, but drop the butt to the right arms elbow crook, and with the right hand grasp the cocking knob and pull back. Your bicep will help puch the rifle while your fingers pull the knob and twist. Quite quick and handy once you master it.

I have used boiling water to dissolve the corrosive salts. Dump some down the breach and start with the chamber, then rinse with boiling water, then a srub with a brush and a second rinse with boiling water. The waters heat gos to the steel and its self drying. Clean with solvent , patches and a light oil when done.
Boiling water in the chamber really helps with laquer and soot build up, get a brush the size of the chamber for your cleaning kit. Any 30-06/.308 surplus chamber brushes are very common. The issed cleaning kit is very good, and very basic. You can expand one with the chamber brush, a tooth brush and a course cloth for polishing the bolt and inner action. Even a small funnel for water control, though I just pourd as straight as possible~~LOL!!~~

Keep an eye on the action screws and hand set them tight, but sometimes they do loosen, so keep an eye on them.

The adjusting buckel on the sling is hung with it tward the butt end of the stock, so it wont dig into your pockets, LBE or into your neck.

 

[Bobson]

The adjusting buckel on the sling is hung with it tward the butt end of the stock, so it wont dig into your pockets, LBE or into your neck.

I'll fix that, and keep an eye on those action screws. Thanks man.

 

[Fred_G]

Nice looking Mosin.

 

[Bobson]

Took this picture of the rifle's muzzle. Is that a rim from being counterbored? I saw a picture comparing a counterbored muzzle to a regular muzzle on 7.62x54r.net (this picture), but the apparent rim in the picture of my rifle is much lower down the barrel - about three inches or so.

ETA: Sorry about the poor quality. That was the best of several pictures.

 

[Tolkachi Robotnik]

Lands and Grooves deep and wide.

It is not a button rifled bore. I was amazed by the mountains and valleys in mine. I believe this would make them last longer.

Pretty nice looking rifle. Hope it shoots well for you. A lot of them will only shoot about five or six inch groups with the surplus ammo at 100 yards, but if you work with them they improve. This is especially true if they are a little dark in the bore.

A good bore brush is helpful, it will take out guilding metal shards and copper fouling, eventually improving accuracy.

 

[Whacked]

no need for boiling water.

moose milk works great

its a mix of water and Ballistol 7:1 ratio or so
I put some in a squirt bottle and take to the range with me. when done I remove and saturate the bolt then down the pipe. run a patch thru and good to go until you can properly clean it.

Moose milk is used for black powder so the corrossive surplus ammo is no big deal