The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Make sure that the chamber is REALLY clean. Lots if dried gunk. Gets in there. Also, did you drop the round into the chamber to load or feed it from the magazine? The extractor may not snap over the rim if you just drop the round into the chamber.

Now THAT would be a great way to spend a Saturday. Watch for a recapture with a Finn SA stamp, I haven't found one yet. Plus the elusive 41 Tula. I've only ever lucked into one of those. VERY hard to find.

Nice. Could it be MI8? That is a mark so far only seen on Spanish Mosin stocks. Check out this auction that ended recently. It has some good pictures. Keep trying, they're out there! https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=3848&aid=52461&lid=13732492&rts=/asp/searchadvanced_i.asp...

By the time I saw that, it had been sold, but I was able to sign on as basically 1st alternate in case the buyer backed out. I don't have one from that arsenal yet, it would have been a good first. If I'm not mistaken, i think that rifle may even have been a repost. It didn't sell the first time?

Jeremy, one thing that you may be confused about is that the laminated stock isn't wood covered in a laminate like a cheap WalMart bookshelf. In this case it means several flat pieces of birch, I'm guessing an 1/8th inch think in the case of mine, glued together in many layers to make up the entire ...

It had a chopped barrel, short bent bolt and was in a chopped, painted wartime 91/30 stock.

I really like the SCW rifles and have a couple. Are there any markings under the buttplate?

You bought it? Nice. I didn't get to look too closely at it but the serial number fonts looked matching at a glance. I like that kind of rifle...its been there, done that. My well used dragoon made it look almost 'minty'. :) I've only been collecting mosins for a little while. I haven't met too many...

Nope, I'm not voodooracer. I stick with Racerguy00 pretty much everywhere. He told me that he restored the Springfield for his own collection. Was the 43 Izhevesk 91/30 on the rack when you were there? That definitely had some character. His one boy mentioned the grandfather. I had my dragoon with m...

Oh, so thats HIM?? Lol

First off, hello all and especially to the OP from a fellow PA Mosin enthusiast. I haven't had a chance to browse the forum at all yet. I also have been to this seller's shop, are you the one that bought the one with the rope-hole stock before I got there? :) I was leery of buying a rifle there beca...