Mosin torture.

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I dont think mine has a safety. If it does? I have know idea where it is on the rifle
 
It's on the back of the bolt, the round part. You pull it back and twist left to engage, pull and twist right to disengage it. I don't know of anyone who uses it due to the difficulty that most people have with it, the spring is very stiff.
 
Eez gun to protect Mother Russia, eez no sooposed to be safe. J/K Looked at mine and it doesn't have a safety that I can see, other than the one between my ears.
 
WOW! I just tried it. had to put the end of the barrel on the carpet,with my shoulder in the butt stock, & still had to use both hands. YUK!
 
Yes, they have a safety as noted. The cocking piece has a deep groove...a hook...that engages with the receiver by pulling back on the cocking piece and rotating it to the left (counter clockwise) and hooking it on the receiver. They all have it.
 
I like the safety, its to hard to use so i just assume it isnt there and leave the chamber empty till im ready to fire. Now that Timney is making an aftermarket trigger with a side safety, that maybe on my list of parts for my nagant.....total cost will still be under 200 hopefully.
 
That was one cool movie,Sam Cade, but I couldn't help but notice your thumb turning real red from the effort. I admire anyone who can play the piano 'cause I couldn't do it on the best day I ever had.
 
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That was one cool movie,Sam Cade, but I couldn't help but notice your thumb turning real red from the effort
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No discomfort anything, its probably no more than 12-15lbs worth of resistance.

I think its mostly a technique issue for people who have issues with the mosin safety.

Muzzle down,stock against ribcage, butt in armpit, pull and twist.


I shoot left handed so I was actually doing that with my off hand to better illustrate it.
 
I love the Mosin-Nagant safety. It's one of the safest ever made, and locks the entire cocking piece to the receiver with the main spring's tension. It's one reason I will take a Mosin on the trail C&L. I've had one fly out of my hands when I slipped on a bridge, go up in the air and land down on a bunch of hard river rocks. I would not trust any other safety to stay in place with that kind of abuse.

It can also be engaged and disengaged with near silence and without the "click" that can scare game off.

You just have to learn how to use it. Instead of trying to use finger muscles, lock your wrist and rotate your arm.

Replacing it with some po-dunck little piece of plastic that merely locks the trigger off is foolish and pointless.

If you are truly too weak to use it, you need to grow stronger comrade!
 
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If you are truly too weak to use it, you need to grow stronger comrade!
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Here here! I truly safe safety - Cosmoline explained it perfectly. If you have a hard time operating, though, you may try disassembling the bolt to learn how it works and clean out all the cosmoline that has built up and been caked up inside.
 
Everything that the Timimny trigger is trying to do,
was done by the FINNS 100 years ago.

Go look, there are machining blue prints on how to adjust your trigger to a VERY crisp light break. Or buy the aftermarket one...

sorry, but I'll take free.
 
Except for mausers and japanese arisakas, another mauser,really. I had been told that if the safety in a Mosin was easy to use the springs were weak and needed replacement. Who knows?
 
That sounds about like the safety on my Japanese Arisaka 7.7 bolt action. You need to press and turn this spring-loaded rear knob on the bolt. In doing so, no matter how quietly, it still makes a lot of noise and is really an awkward arrangement-:cuss:-bound to scare any nearby buck to a mile away!
 
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Thank you for your input, shadow 7d. I like your quote, but if it comes from Herbert's book Dune, the bene jesserit littany goes like this: fear is the mind killer. fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. i will face my fear. i will permit it to pass over me and thru me. and when it has gone past me i will turn to see fears path. where the fear has gone i will see nothing. onlt i will remain. I think I like your version beter.
 
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Thank you for your input, shadow 7d. I like your quote, but if it comes from Herbert's book Dune, the bene jesserit littany goes like this: fear is the mind killer. fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. i will face my fear. i will permit it to pass over me and thru me. and when it has gone past me i will turn to see fears path. where the fear has gone i will see nothing. onlt i will remain. I think I like your version beter.
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Close but no.

Copy and pasting from my E-book:

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain
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I never use the safety on mine, but it isn't a rifle I keep loaded. The only time a round is chambered is when it is pointed down range. I usually leave the bolt off of it just to ensure that it can't fired, it's not like it's difficult to put back on.
 
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