BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LMBO!!To each their own, but I’d rather catch the clap.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LMBO!!To each their own, but I’d rather catch the clap.
They are fun like any gun and you can accurize them to MOA.
Lots of strikes against them from a marketing standpoint:
1. Iron sights are out of style
2. Woodstock’s are out of style
3. Bayonets aren’t on the tacticool list
4. Not American history.
5. Basic AR15 for $400
I understand liking them when they were cheap. I have some too.
I have a feeling it would take more than a little money to make the average Mosin into a MOA shooter.
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Not one, two. New England Westinghouse, and Remington. Also the first Mosins were manufactured in France, at Chatellerault Arsenal.Of course, and I'm talking about the shorter 38, 44 and 91/59 series, but under two conditions:
Both of my 44s seemed to have decent rifling, but resting on a bench I was unable to get groups less than approx. 6" at 50 yards.
If you can afford plenty of ammo which works and are fortunate enough to have an accurate rifle (counter-bored for better accuracy or not),
then Yes!
Apparently the Finns took better care of their standard-length, modified versions than the Soviet troops.
All of you guys do realize that a US factory manufactured some Mosin rifles?
as if they're as archaic as a brown bess, and as crudely built as a mud outhouse.
And you dare have a user name with Cossack (Kozak in Russian) in it. Shame on you.I bought one in the 2000's for $65. It's not that cool. It's a much cooler wall hanger than shootable firearm. I'm still not convinced I got my money's worth.
It's an un-degreasable clunky clumsy junker that ruins gun cases and everything it touches, nearly requires a mallet to work the bolt, and costs more to shoot than .308.
I don't even know how accurate mine is. To even put it on paper, I'd have to wrap it in Saran-wrap before putting it in the gun case, bring a mallet so I wouldn't get a hernia working the bolt, and wear gloves and protective clothing so I wouldn't get soaked in grease. And even then, I bet it would squirt out of my grip like a soapbar before I got more than a few rounds in.
To put it another way, it's not much more than 50 odd years ahead of the Brown Bess, and mud outhouses were state of the art when the rifle was introduced.
I bought one in the 2000's for $65. It's not that cool. It's a much cooler wall hanger than shootable firearm. I'm still not convinced I got my money's worth.
It's an un-degreasable clunky clumsy junker that ruins gun cases and everything it touches, nearly requires a mallet to work the bolt, and costs more to shoot than .308.
I don't even know how accurate mine is. To even put it on paper, I'd have to wrap it in Saran-wrap before putting it in the gun case, bring a mallet so I wouldn't get a hernia working the bolt, and wear gloves and protective clothing so I wouldn't get soaked in grease. And even then, I bet it would squirt out of my grip like a soapbar before I got more than a few rounds in.
To put it another way, it's not much more than 50 odd years ahead of the Brown Bess, and mud outhouses were state of the art when the rifle was introduced.