Should I buy a mosin?

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GBExpat said:
Since The Idea seems to be to buy a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 rifle and then bubba the poor thing as an outlet for your winter boredom, no, that does not sound like a good idea to me.

I have found that Winter is a good time to fight off such boredom by reloading for Spring/Summer/Fall. ;)
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Lol true, but I don't have a place to even setup my reloading bench until the weather warms up. A new bolt, stock, scope mount and trigger are all easily enough to undo. I would hold off on cutting and recrowning until I was sure I like where it was going. A mosin isn't an SKS, and knowing better than to modify my SKS might be the cause of my revenge on a mosin.

I will promise you that no tapco will ever go near it and it will have only one rail for one scope. I will never, under any circumstances, refer to myself as an "operator"
 
I had the M38, an M44 without the bayonet.

It was awful. Rough action, sticky bolt, brutal recoil, huge muzzle blast, crude sights. I put half a tin through it and left it in the safe for a few years. I sold it and a 440 tin at a loss.

If you just have to get one, get the Finn or a version that is a full rifle length. Then get a good butt pad.

On a side note, a guy at the range let me try his M44 rested on a bench. It honestly felt like a 12ga firing slugs.
 
HankC said:
If you want a piece of history, buy it if you don't have one yet. If you want a shooter, buy a modern gun and some will not cost you much more than a Mosin. If you want one for investment, there are better ones!
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I am so incredibly tired of the cookie cutter bolt guns out there it makes my brain sad. 91/30s are listed for $139.00. I've got my numbers matching sks as an "investment" gun.
 
chris in va said:
I had the M38, an M44 without the bayonet.

It was awful. Rough action, sticky bolt, brutal recoil, huge muzzle blast, crude sights. I put half a tin through it and left it in the safe for a few years. I sold it and a 440 tin at a loss.

If you just have to get one, get the Finn or a version that is a full rifle length. Then get a good butt pad.

On a side note, a guy at the range let me try his M44 rested on a bench. It honestly felt like a 12ga firing slugs.
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Rough action has been addressed by a few here, bolt would be replaced, trigger would be replaced, fireballs are fun, stock would be replaced and I'm thinking a fixed 4x scope. I would maybe buy a spam can for a shtf situation, but regular ammo would be used.
 
NO...
frankly, by the time you get done banging the rifle up to whatever it is you wanted
you could have gone to Walmart and bought a Savage
and guess what, you're going to have to reload for the damn thing to get consistent accuracy anyways....

THERE IS NO SAVINGS
sorry, but thats the truth, unless you want a MOSIN
no reason to buy one and try to make a brown cow oink.... teaching pigs to sing and that, have fun annoying the pig.
 
rduchateau2954 said:
Haha c'mon now! You think so little of me that I'd make something horrible like that? I bet he gets his price from some wanna be sniper.
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Just joshing. I have an SKS I really like but I have never picked up a Mosin. I wouldn't mind one of the carbines for the right price. Little flame throwers based on the few that
I have fired. The round is more than capable for most hunting but the corrossive ammo would be a pain.

The guy with the Armslist ad has had this on there for about 2 mos. I guess he will find someone who think its the cats meow and all will be well in the world.
 
Mosins cost more than they used to, but still a cheap priced military rifle, fun to shoot though. Just not what I use when I got other guns to choose from. reliable and cheap.
 
wojownik said:
Should you buy a Mosin? Why stop at just one? :evil::evil::evil:

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I'd like to point out, the last one, on the bottom is NOT a Mosin
And if you wanna get particular is left over from when that part of Poland was part of Germany...

He he...
Buy a mosin, for being a Mosin, if you don't want a Mosin, go get something like a Savage, and you get a MOA rifle, out of the box, you can customize at home...
 
Shadow 7D said:
I'd like to point out, the last one, on the bottom is NOT a Mosin And if you wanna get particular is left over from when that part of Poland was part of Germany...
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Correct, the last one is a wz-48 trainer (.22lr) - might look like a sporterized Mosin, but the action was actually copied by the Lucznik designers from a Mauser .22 rifle. But, hey, if we can copy the Mauser action for the 1903, copying the .22 action is small potatoes!

However, getting particular, the Lucznik (Radom) plant was established in 1935, around 16 years after Poland's reconstitution as a nation. Getting really historically geeky, the Radom region was under Austria-Hungarian rule from 1795-1919, then reunited into Poland. Unless you're referring to the occupation of Poland by Germany during WW2, but the plant had already been established 4 years before then. The wz-48 was in production from 1948-1960 (I have a 1950 dated rifle).

Really fun to shoot, great plinker, though I've not shot it in a while (I have more 7.62x54R than .22lr ammo at this point...).
 
So to some up the comments here you have a few schools of thought:

1. Do it, they are cheap and fun to plink with but dont mod it
2. Do it, make a few mods to it, slap a scope on it and have some fun with it
3. Dont do it, its a waste of money once you factor in the cost of add ons you could have bought a good off the shelf rifle with a more commercial round.
4. Never touch the holy grail that is a mosin, buy it and save it in a bank vault.

It really comes down to what you want to do and how much money you want to spend. I have a two very heavily modified Mosins and one original tula hex. The first one I bought i cut down to 20", re crowned, welded on a muzzle brake, added a rock solid mount and bolt handle,timney trigger and installed it into an Archangel stock. It shoots MOA all day and is my primary hunting rifle. I have a ton of fun shooting steel at 500 yards with this rifle, however I would not do it over again because I have about $800 into a rilfe that is worth $500 at best. For the $800 I could have bought a savage that will shoot sub MOA with ammo that is more readily available.

Based on what your saying what I would do is buy one and do some minor mods to it to make a fun rifle.
1. Rifle $175 shipped to your FFL
2. Rock Solid mount-$100
3. Cut down the barrel and recrown- free if you have the tools. $25 for the crowing tool
4. Archangel stock$150
5. Bushnell elite fixed 10 power $200
6. Mod the bolt handle yourself-free

So for around $600 you have a quality rifle that will shoot well with Blue Box surplus match ammo. If you want to buy a surplus rifle and keep it completely stock I would look into the K31 swiss. It is more accurate out of the box and the surplus ammo available shoots better. Hornady also makes some nice hunting loads for it.

I will say this: I had a blast building my Mosin and I always have people coming up to me at the range to ask about it and wanting to shoot it so it has been fun. Attached is a picture.
 

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Rifle $139 locally
Boyds laminate stock $99
Timmeny trigger $89
Rock solid mount $100
+ dies and brass which I would get for any caliber
 
$450 for decent bolt action rifle. But this decent rifle would have a gorgeous laminate stock and a timmeny trigger. Or I buy an entry level cookie cutter synthetic stocked rifle. Keep in mind I will eventually reload for the SKS, so there is one less caliber bullet to buy.
 
rduchateau2954 said:
$450 for decent bolt action rifle. But this decent rifle would have a gorgeous laminate stock and a timmeny trigger. Or I buy an entry level cookie cutter synthetic stocked rifle. Keep in mind I will eventually reload for the SKS, so there is one less caliber bullet to buy.
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so....
on the caliber thing... ok so the rounds are in the .311 range
HOWEVER
and here is the kicker, a Mosin doesn't shoot the same bullet as the AK/SKS
125-140 grn vs the Mosins 150, however most shoot best in the 180-200ish range.
 
Yes, you should buy one.

It is your money and your gun. Buy one and do what you want to that rifle.

7.62x54R ammunition is still priced less than a quarter a round. Shooting three or four bucks worth is literally a blast. Happy shooting!
 
why would you not buy a mosin? if its a hex reciever alll i can say is buy it.

its the peoples rifle. true germany gets credit for the 'peoples car' concept, but russia has the peoples rifle. its accurate, its powerful. its good for everything from moose, elk, 2000 pound bear, and 200 pound maurading huns.
 
Ive owner a couple mosins through the years.
They were fun and cheap to shoot but as time went on I wanted a more accurate rifle for hunting and punching paper.
I ended up selling them and never looked back.
For a fun plinker you should definitely buy one. Just don't try to turn it into a precision rifle. In the end its cheaper to buy a nice rifle out of the gate. If you just wanna blast the mighty 7.62x54 then by all means, go for it.
 
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