The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

mcsupersoldier wrote:Thanks for allowing me to be part of your forum. I have many Mosins and am anxious to find out more about them. Thanks again.

Hey all!

My name is Ray, I just purchased my first Mosin Nagant ever, I'm pretty stoked about it.
It's a 1943 Izhevsk Mosin Nagant 91/30, it's not too bad on the eyes, and I've already taken it apart and cleaned it.....3 times.
It was already cosmoline free when I got it, thank god. haha. Anyway, I have not shot it yet, still waiting on the tear drop multi tool to
verify firing pin depth before I touch one off. Thanks for the new community!

-Ray

raydogg30 wrote:Hey all!

My name is Ray, I just purchased my first Mosin Nagant ever, I'm pretty stoked about it.
It's a 1943 Izhevsk Mosin Nagant 91/30, it's not too bad on the eyes, and I've already taken it apart and cleaned it.....3 times.
It was already cosmoline free when I got it, thank god. haha. Anyway, I have not shot it yet, still waiting on the tear drop multi tool to
verify firing pin depth before I touch one off. Thanks for the new community!

-Ray

Welcome to the board Ray.

Hi, my name is Gene (squaw man) and I have the addiction. Years ago, the wife gave me an 1896 7MM Mauser as a gift on our first Christmas. The Mauser was pretty good, but there was something missing, something kept calling my name. All you guys/gals on this forum know of what I speak. Early this year, we were at a gun show and I heard the voice. This time it was stronger and it said "I am a 91/30 and I am not what you are looking for, but I am very close, keep looking. I kept looking and finally, there it was, like the sun coming up over the ocean. An M38 called me over and said "here I am, come to mama". That one was not in very good shape, but now I knew what had been calling my name. I found one in Charleston that was cherry and yes I probably paid too much for it. But that was the girl I wanted to take to the dance, so I didn't mind.
After a few months, she whispered to me, "you know, I have a cousin that you would enjoy getting to know, her name is SKS, and I would not mind sharing you with her".
Now I have a Norinco model 56 that is really cherry. I did not pay too much for her, the guy didn't know what he had.
That's exactly the way it happened! I am not exaggerating one bit.

Hi I'm here. I hope this covers the post requirement.
Frank

squaw man wrote:Hi, my name is Gene (squaw man) and I have the addiction. Years ago, the wife gave me an 1896 7MM Mauser as a gift on our first Christmas. The Mauser was pretty good, but there was something missing, something kept calling my name. All you guys/gals on this forum know of what I speak. Early this year, we were at a gun show and I heard the voice. This time it was stronger and it said "I am a 91/30 and I am not what you are looking for, but I am very close, keep looking. I kept looking and finally, there it was, like the sun coming up over the ocean. An M38 called me over and said "here I am, come to mama". That one was not in very good shape, but now I knew what had been calling my name. I found one in Charleston that was cherry and yes I probably paid too much for it. But that was the girl I wanted to take to the dance, so I didn't mind.
After a few months, she whispered to me, "you know, I have a cousin that you would enjoy getting to know, her name is SKS, and I would not mind sharing you with her".
Now I have a Norinco model 56 that is really cherry. I did not pay too much for her, the guy didn't know what he had.
That's exactly the way it happened! I am not exaggerating one bit.

Welcome to the board, Issued M38, that sounds interesting, most were typical refurbs, issued could mean Finn, or one of the Balkan used M38's, even a bringhome, nice.

fredd3039 wrote:Hi I'm here. I hope this covers the post requirement.
Frank

Welcome to the board Frank, and yes, it covers the requirment

Hello guys and gals,

I'm Jeff aka "subdood".

I used my new C&R License today for the 1st time to purchase a Russian 1891/30 Mosin Nagant.

I look forward to the UPS guy showing up next week.

subdood wrote:Hello guys and gals,

I'm Jeff aka "subdood".

I used my new C&R License today for the 1st time to purchase a Russian 1891/30 Mosin Nagant.

I look forward to the UPS guy showing up next week.

Welcome aboard Jeff, First Mosin, and first use of the C&R, cool

Bob 67, from SW Florida.

just bought a mosin hopefully shootig it this weekend can't wait

hey there guys, new to this forum but not the mosin rifles. let me tell you a little about myself, my name is Ryan i am a college student in north texas, i have owned 8 91/30's (4 hex, 4 round) total so i've cleaned my share of cosmoline. have detoured for quite some time on sks and ak platform rifles recently, but am getting back into my mosins as i recently picked up a m44 from classicfirearms on saturday. first thoughts unpacking it, 1945 Izhevsk, not ultra heavy cosmo, i had asked for a handselected bore and i man i got one. doing some research i see it's molot no ugly stamping on the other side of the reciever but the diamond symbol is lasered in the top of the rear tang area and once i took off the barrel cover i could see the other molot markings. i've heard rumors of people saying these are rebarreled and if so this could be a possibility, the barrel is gorgeous perfect muzzle crowning and a mirror inside. can't say i'm an expert at all in the molot area hoping to get some pictures up on the molot subforum here shortly so i can see what i got here. hope to have a very informative stay here on this forum base.

bob67 wrote:Bob 67, from SW Florida.

Hello Bob, welcome to the board

brixton_briefcase wrote:just bought a mosin hopefully shootig it this weekend can't wait

Welcome to the board, let us know how it goes

shoot the refurbs wrote:hey there guys, new to this forum but not the mosin rifles. let me tell you a little about myself, my name is Ryan i am a college student in north texas, i have owned 8 91/30's (4 hex, 4 round) total so i've cleaned my share of cosmoline. have detoured for quite some time on sks and ak platform rifles recently, but am getting back into my mosins as i recently picked up a m44 from classicfirearms on saturday. first thoughts unpacking it, 1945 Izhevsk, not ultra heavy cosmo, i had asked for a handselected bore and i man i got one. doing some research i see it's molot no ugly stamping on the other side of the reciever but the diamond symbol is lasered in the top of the rear tang area and once i took off the barrel cover i could see the other molot markings. i've heard rumors of people saying these are rebarreled and if so this could be a possibility, the barrel is gorgeous perfect muzzle crowning and a mirror inside. can't say i'm an expert at all in the molot area hoping to get some pictures up on the molot subforum here shortly so i can see what i got here. hope to have a very informative stay here on this forum base.

Welcome to the board, grease, you have cleaned good ol' cheap commie grease off the Mosins, Cosmoline is our stuff, product of a first world economy, or what used to be one anyway. Sounds like the start of an excellent collection We have a forum for the SKS rifles here as well.

New member from CT here. Got my 91/30 two weeks ago and took it out to the rage yesterday for the first time. Became a fan immediately. Sights were "dead on" at 70 ft (unfortunately thats the max in door range length I got in my neck of the woods).

Oh, forgot.... This was also my first purchase as a C&R license holder.


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Hi, I'm Joker. A friend of mine suggested this as a good Mosin forum, so I thought I would join and see what's here.

SMS Wolf wrote:New member from CT here. Got my 91/30 two weeks ago and took it out to the rage yesterday for the first time. Became a fan immediately. Sights were "dead on" at 70 ft (unfortunately thats the max in door range length I got in my neck of the woods).

Welcome to the board, it's very unusual to find a Mosin that will be dead on at that range. Most will be high shooters having been set for 200 yards or more and will have windage issues without a bayonet mounted until the Elby sight tool is used to adjust the front sight a bit. Very good luck, I had that happen with only one or two of my Soviet refurbs

PvtJoker wrote:Hi, I'm Joker. A friend of mine suggested this as a good Mosin forum, so I thought I would join and see what's here.

Hello Joker, I liked that movie also welcome to the board