The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I like it. It looks just like my M44, same color, same amounts of light scratches in the shellac. The T53 you have looks like a good one too. If you have a good imagination, try and picture what that rifle has been through and where it's been. It earned that best to hell look and that look is as go...

desdem12 wrote:Nice stock Don't refinish and leave the scratches and dings cause they are character marks. Like Weldon says it will kill the value of it also.

I will leave it alone, just a good cleaning and an appropriate sling and I'm going to call it good.

Thanks!

Ah, I see, great info, thanks for sharing it.

Very nice, and a way better deal than mine I just picked up.

Oh, I didn't know that, I'll just clean off the cosmo then, and shoot her. Thanks for the reply. I have a 91/30 that's force matched (the old sn's are scratched out). This M44 doesn't have any scratched out sn's, so how can you tell?

J&G had their sale going last week, and I paid $189 for it, before transfer (no C&R yet). She's in great shape with a perfect bore, good bluing, and even though she's not that rare, I'm digging the non-force matched numbers. I may just fix the nics and scratches on her, and call it good, alt...

I finally got around to taking pics of my three.

I'm new here, I was hoping to post a few pics of my mosins and the new T53, but I don't have them handy. Great looking forum guys :) Thank you, and welcome to the board :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Found some pics. :) The first 91/3 (far left) came from my father, who didn't do anything to it but clean th...

I'm new here, I was hoping to post a few pics of my mosins and the new T53, but I don't have them handy. Great looking forum guys