jeremywills
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Its official, I have been bitten by the gun bug.
I went to another range today, the bullet hole which is about a 45 min drive for me, change of pace, I wanted to play with my new SKS, these folks have a full auto area that I knew I could play with the SKS as fast as my finger would allow, I get up early this morning, head over there, its 9 AM. They dont open up until 10, curses. I have an hour to kill so I head back towards town thinking Ill hit up WalMart or something, maybe Ill find some breakfast, I see this pawnshop. Ok, I can beat on a guitar or 2 for an hour, maybe just maybe browse thier gun racks, this probably being more what I was thinking although I dont want to admit it
What do I see way in the back corner but 2 Mosins. Carbines too, damn LOL just up my alley. I see one without the fixed bayo, oh no I told myself, and alot of other things I wont repeat here, its an m38. I ask the guy to see the m38 and he says like an jack#$% um I dont have any m38s. I look at him, he smiles and says, I have an 1891/59 though very similar hahaha very funny I said Lets see it. I was tickled pink
She started out life as an 1942 91/30. Im sure she gave the red army good service through out the war. The soviets chopped her down in 59 and cleaned up the rough tooling marks and now shes quite nice. The 1942 and hammer and sickle are still visible from the polishing, all the new numbers match, just the bolt has been electropenciled and forced, nothing that would stop me though. The 91/30 original sight leaf has been scrubbed of the largest meters, now now 1 to 10 remain, they were pretty confident you could hit that far with a 91/30 anyways. Not very realistic if you ask me
The bore is wonderful, its better looking than my m44, this is what really sold me on this one. The crown is perfect. The stocks a bit beat, but I like that. Theres no silly bayo to have to contend with, just point and shoot. Sadly the trigger leaves some to be desired That will be worked on. This will be a great project for me. I might refinish the stock, maybe entertain the idea of that scout mounted pistol scope. This ones a shooter though. I should have been smart and had the gunsmith give it the once over, but in really looking at alot of these guns, I had a good feeling I was ok to go straight to the range where I was heading anyhow and just fire away, my m44 and the SKS were with me and I had plenty of ammo with me, its almost like this one was meant to be.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/mosin91-59.jpg
Heres what I did at 50 yards. Very windy day, not a good day to be shooting but hell, sometimes you dont get that luxury. My only gripe with bullet hole is thier targets are hung on plastic backers between 2 poles with 2 lines of parachute cord, the wind kept knocking the targets around, and a few times off, so Im confident on a ideal day at my typical range this ones gonna really be a shooter
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/9159mosin.jpg
Im sorry, Im rambling but this has been a good day
The Ruskie carbine family is growing multiplying, taking over, like Im complaining HAHA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/russiancarbines.jpg
Ill say it again, who needs C and R licenses for mail order with evil pawnshops in town full of milsurps
Thanks for the read guys. Im done now
J
PS, Im leaving links to pics now as Im not sure how to resize the pics and I dont want folks having to scroll left to right on smallish monitors
I went to another range today, the bullet hole which is about a 45 min drive for me, change of pace, I wanted to play with my new SKS, these folks have a full auto area that I knew I could play with the SKS as fast as my finger would allow, I get up early this morning, head over there, its 9 AM. They dont open up until 10, curses. I have an hour to kill so I head back towards town thinking Ill hit up WalMart or something, maybe Ill find some breakfast, I see this pawnshop. Ok, I can beat on a guitar or 2 for an hour, maybe just maybe browse thier gun racks, this probably being more what I was thinking although I dont want to admit it
What do I see way in the back corner but 2 Mosins. Carbines too, damn LOL
just up my alley. I see one without the fixed bayo, oh no I told myself, and alot of other things I wont repeat here, its an m38. I ask the guy to see the m38 and he says like an jack#$% um I dont have any m38s. I look at him, he smiles and says, I have an 1891/59 though very similar hahaha very funny I said Lets see it. I was tickled pink She started out life as an 1942 91/30. Im sure she gave the red army good service through out the war. The soviets chopped her down in 59 and cleaned up the rough tooling marks and now shes quite nice. The 1942 and hammer and sickle are still visible from the polishing, all the new numbers match, just the bolt has been electropenciled and forced, nothing that would stop me though. The 91/30 original sight leaf has been scrubbed of the largest meters, now now 1 to 10 remain, they were pretty confident you could hit that far with a 91/30 anyways. Not very realistic if you ask me
The bore is wonderful, its better looking than my m44, this is what really sold me on this one. The crown is perfect. The stocks a bit beat, but I like that. Theres no silly bayo to have to contend with, just point and shoot. Sadly the trigger leaves some to be desired
That will be worked on. This will be a great project for me. I might refinish the stock, maybe entertain the idea of that scout mounted pistol scope. This ones a shooter though. I should have been smart and had the gunsmith give it the once over, but in really looking at alot of these guns, I had a good feeling I was ok to go straight to the range where I was heading anyhow and just fire away, my m44 and the SKS were with me and I had plenty of ammo with me, its almost like this one was meant to be.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/mosin91-59.jpg
Heres what I did at 50 yards. Very windy day, not a good day to be shooting but hell, sometimes you dont get that luxury. My only gripe with bullet hole is thier targets are hung on plastic backers between 2 poles with 2 lines of parachute cord, the wind kept knocking the targets around, and a few times off, so Im confident on a ideal day at my typical range this ones gonna really be a shooter
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/9159mosin.jpg
Im sorry, Im rambling but this has been a good day
The Ruskie carbine family is growing
multiplying, taking over, like Im complaining HAHAhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/jeremywills/russiancarbines.jpg
Ill say it again, who needs C and R licenses for mail order with evil pawnshops in town full of milsurps
Thanks for the read guys. Im done now
J
PS, Im leaving links to pics now as Im not sure how to resize the pics and I dont want folks having to scroll left to right on smallish monitors
