The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

This is a page of works by Vasily Aleksandrovich Nikolaev. He was one of the artists who stayed behind in Leningrad and worked on posters and newspaper illustrations during the siege. He was killed in an artillery bombardment in 1943 http://lenfront.ru/expoz.php This page has some other artists, who...

http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/Rockisland1913/Sovietpropagandaposter-WW2.jpg "Beat the enemy as your fathers and older brothers, the sailors of October, beat him." The revolutionary sailor was one of the great Soviet symbols. The Kronstadt anti-Bolshevik uprising and mass execut...

http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/Rockisland1913/WW2SovietposterGotstuck.jpg "Got himself stuck" "Fritz decided to go right through us, but suddenly got into a bit of a mixup. He paraded like an eagle for about week, and now is walking backwards like a crayfish" "Fri...

during the Great War the Germans so hated US shotgunners that they threatened to execute any allied prisoner caught with a shotgun, no evidence that they actually did so. They whined a lot about shotguns being "inhumane" and lobbied to have them banned form the battlefield. They were comp...

Given the weather lately, that might be soon...

I have a few interesting things you haven't seen as well. And now I don't have to disarm crossing the border, which is a nice bonus.

Rongoman wrote:Craptacular... I like that word.

I R good in English, too. Renaissance man, I am.

IMG_0180.JPG This here is a CZ-75. Not the common commercial 75B, but a true Czech surplus 75, no firing pin block. It is common knowledge that 75 and 75B magazines are different. Pre-B mags are like hen's teeth. Post-B mags are all over the place. The actual difference is that the newer mags are a...

WELLLLLL, if you are like me and a bit of a gun nut Me? A gun nut? Well, I never... :lol: I'll let you in on a possible addition to this. It seems that Numrich Gun Parts has a 7.62X25 Tok barrel with wolf spring available for 1911 guns in 9mm or 38Super Automatic. So if I get one of these and that ...

blackwolf97 wrote: How much more awesome-r can it get?!?!

Well, since you asked, it would be awesomer if a. there were more of them and b. they cost less than my house payment.

TCM is, apparently, a 9mm necked down to .223.

Why didn't they just make a 1911 in 7.62 x25?

Rongoman wrote:I haven't used the RIA mags... These seem to work good so far.

"A while" I was talking about was a year or more.

Does it come with the same glossy Italian-made magazines that RIA uses? They work OK for a while, but eventually the feed lips bend out of shape. One of mine got so bad it would eject the top round when slammed home in the gun.