The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

The rings are correct for a stock of that age, the parts mix is normal for pretty much any Mosin that old as they have been refurbished or repaired many times after multiple wars. Nice example, and it still has it's cleaning rod and markings are not defaced.

As I was typing this yesterday evening the aftershock hit. I didn't feel or hear anything for that one, didn't even know about it until later.

Anybody else feel that tiny quake we had this morning here in the northeastern states? Happened in Jersey, felt all over NYS. The big shop door shook like it does when a big wind gust hits it followed by a long rumble. I heard it, saw the door shake, but otherwise didn't feel any ground movement. 4....

I guess I’m not understanding what a commercial sporter is. I’m thinking a sporterized military rifle. A commercial sporter is a brand new rifle from Winchester, Remington, Ruger, SAKO, Marlin, Henry and so on. It contains no surplus parts and you pay full retail for it at the gun shop. A sporteriz...

They are hard to install if you put them in upside down, but they are not meant to go on and off easily either. If that was the case they could rattle loose in combat like the original M1891's were prone to do. The Finns fixed the 1891's by putting a small screw, and sometimes pins to hold the band ...

My Marlin 336's and 1895 are old commercial, not military designs as is my Savage 110, but none of them contain recycled parts. I don't know of any commercial sporter sold in the US today that gets away with using surplus military parts, or recycled sporter parts for that matter. Such a thing would ...

I am all about the history, if I wanted a brand new rifle it would be a commercial sporter. Commercial sporters have only the history the owner puts into it, same for a new production Mosin. In any case I have several unissued Mosins from various countries, they are my least interesting Mosins, litt...

Pull the action from the stock, flip it over and look at the rear tang of the receiver where the action screw passes through it. There should be an arsenal stamp and the last two or three numbers of the date the receiver was produced.

Refurbished in this case would mean it went through the Soviets post WW2 refurbishment process before it was stored away in Ukraine. This hoard was unleashed on the US market in the 1990's and early 2000's sometimes selling as cheap as $55 for a basic 91/30 with bayonet, sling, ammo pouch, oil bottl...

They did some very nice work on these timepieces, attention paid to even the parts not often seen. A mechanical watch of this quality today would be what? Ten grand?

If it's like mine then it will be a treat to shoot on the range, tight groups.

I imagine that more than one Soviet conscript did the same thing if they were lucky enough to be issued a weapon during the war.

Thanks for all the help everyone. Will report back. I do love this rifle. The bolt is so smooth compared to a Mosin, but Mosin's still have a special place in the collection :) Side note - I haven't really shopped for milsurps in a while. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE PRICES? I have an Ishevsk 1944 all ...

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Given my low opinion of most of Hollywood's " performers", I would not seek many of them out for any reason let alone putting their names on my gear. I don't know this particular actor, what kind of person he might be off camera, hopefully not one of the anti gun, anti America crowd who p...

150 yards for a full power .30 military cartridge is like using a super car to go down the drive to fetch the mail. These rifles were designed to reach out and touch things at 250-300 yards or longer. Use the six O'clock hold on the target, or aim for the belt to hit the chest. You could swap out th...