"Collectors Forum" - All Mosin Nagant are discussed here. Also the Russian and "Finnish capture" SVT38 and SVT40. This is an excellent place for new Mosin owners to ask questions. We have some of the best experts here looking forward to your questions. If you post a Mosin sniper rifle here, we may or may not move it to the sniper forum.
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The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
Ron, I found a M28/30 leaning against a table at a flea market some 17 years ago. He wanted $75, but admitted he was selling it because the bolt was always hard to open after he fired it. I pointed out a minor crack by the toe of the stock, the overall filthy condition of the rifle, and the fact that he had been there two days trying to sell it and would be packing it home again in an hour. Settled on $45, and I took it home, neither seller or myself knew what it was past some sort of Russian rifle. Glued the crack, cleaned off the dust, and as cleaning the chamber is just part of what I do when cleaning a rifle I had no problems with the bolt in well over several thousand rounds fired in that rifle. Keep your eye open and you may find one the same way Nice rifle
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt