The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

thanks for the link but they are all sold out

I'm needing to get me some but the gun show doesn't come for another month and a half and I was wondering where's a good place to buy em online and what should I look for to get decent clips and not some POS clips.

saw one at a local gun store in town. Wanted $219.99 for one.

I guess I was kinda worried that there was a lot of gap between the metal and the wood from the stock.

I have never seen a Chinese type 53 out in the wild that wasnt dirty as hell and have a stock that looked like someone ran over it with a lawn mower.

argh the more I think about it the more I think my 91/30 is pretty rough.

Still cant get it =( I'm gonna try not to strip the stock and keep it original but I'm afraid that bits of the shellack is starting to flake off. I was thinking once it warms up and I sweat the cosmoline out would a layer or two of tung oil help stop the flaking or should I try a stock wax of some k...

Flip the rifle over, remove the cleaning rod, take the screwdriver end of your bolt tool and insert it in the split of the band and gently press it down forcing the ends apart. This should loosen it enough to get it over the band. You can do the same thing with a pair of needle nose pliers, I use t...

I still can't get it off my fingers hurt. I've tried flexing the spring to make it less stiff and I even put a dab of baby oil on the top of the spring and a bit around the band but I cant get it over that spring..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/doc363/2e848a0b-e129-4219-8ce9-9dc0dc0ef100.jpg Here is the gun minus the bolt, magazine and cleaning rod. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/doc363/photo2-1.jpg This is the band which is giving all the trouble. The finish on its ok I guess but I'm not goin...

Hi all. Well I bought myself my first rifle which is a 1942 Tula M 91/30. Now the thing is full of cosmoline head to toe and yesterday I had the day off so I decided to break it down but I've run into a major snag. I cannot for the life of my get the smallest of the barrel bands off. I ysed a heat g...