My New Rifle! '30 Hex Mosin with all the works.

[Forty-Five]

Hey, just picked this up today. Like the title says, it is a 1930 hex reciever Mosin Nagant. Reciever mounted weaver rail, crown re-cut at 11 degrees, barrel floated, action smoothed... i could go on but you get the picture. The original owner did everything under the sun to the gun. I have some 148 grain Russian surplus I plan on shooting tomorrow. What are the best groups one can shoot out of a mosin?

 

[WardenWolf]

Very pretty rifle, work done on it aside. Nice find.

Mosins can be extremely accurate rifles. I can't tell you group sizes, but I will tell you that I've read from multiple sources that very heavy bullets work best. Most handloaders tend to use bullets in the 200-205 grain range. Quite conveniently, Silver Bear offers a 203-grain soft point. Try it and see what you get.

Note: not responsible for any abused shoulders.

 

[ball3006]

The question is, why did the previous owner sell it after all he did to it? Two things affect accuracy. One, is the rifle a good shooter? Two, how good a shooter are you.......With Mosin Nagants, each rifle is different. I have some beaters that shoot minute of angle and some that look brand new that will shoot no better than 4 inch groups. Maybe you will be lucky.....chris3

 

[WardenWolf]

I expect he determined it was an accurate rifle BEFORE he did all this to it. That said, there's lots of reasons for him to have sold it. My Mosin's previous owner sold it because he had a shoulder injury and could no longer shoot it. Some people develop arthritis as well. Or he may have just decided it was time for something new, and sold it to finance a custom Mauser build or something else.

 

[caribou]

2 minute of angle is the best I get at 100 yards, 5 shots,with my M-39, though a few times Ive done better, 2 is average for me via my Sako.
I DID try 4 different Mosins that I had out at the time I lost my Rem700 ADL in .243W( I store most of my 'stuff , with lotsa kids about and a small house) and couldnt belive how well the Mosin shot with surplus 'eastern bolc' (I have no idea the orgin) and even better with the Chinese I had......when That ran out I picked up some Hungarian and a case of Czeck, shot the Czech and have never opend the Hung, "cause i did some wicked accurate shooting and just bought more, more , more.

Now Im handloading now and then at a friends house in another town, but I often over night there, and NO kids around ~LOL!~

With some of the limited testing Ive been shooting, 1 MOA in a sweet Mosin is not at all impossible,.......... and I am on that trail........

 

[Cosmoline]

The question is, why did the previous owner sell it after all he did to it?

A very good question. You really need to be wary of buying home smithing projects. Some Mosins can shoot very well, others are mediocre. Putting a huge scope on a 91/30 and cutting a new crown won't make it into a tack driver.

With Mosins, less is more. The best shooters I've seen have been stock Finnish military rifles. You will generally get better results tweaking your loads than altering the rifle.

 

[jiminhobesound]

I have to sell four rifles, including a Mosin, because with arthritis I cannot shoot them. Also, they are not valuable collector items, just utile rifles. No sense in keeping something I cannot use.

 

[ZCORR Jay]

That's a beautiful Mosin you picked up.