The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Brake clean will kill the wood finish, on metal it can remove the black paint used by the Soviets to fix bluing problems.

Hot water and simple green worked just fine, Thanks

Found another Stock Repair

Simple green, someone said you could drink that stuff and be OK, I declined to try that , preferring to just take his word for it. Nice repair

After my Detailed Field Strip & Cleaning, I discovered that it is a 99% Tula

The forward hand guard band has a "Izhevsk" stamped Logo !

I want replace it with a "Tula" if I can find one, maybe on Liberty Tree
or another parts dealer ?

Hot water and mineral spirits or kersosene will clean the grease right up. Don't forget to oil well afterwards as mineral spirits strip the metals natural oil as well, leaving it with no protection.
Just throwing this out there, Ed's red bore cleaner work fantasticaly as well, and it is a cheap effective clp.
as for the forward handgaurd, it also adds to the history and uniqueness of this rifle. I'd leave it be and use the money to buy ammo or save for another m91/30.

Actually the stock and metal had a lite coating of grease/Cosmoline and I used hot water and simple green and it cleaned up nice.
The bore was cleaning using a brass/copper brush, hot water and Hoppe's #9 and lots of cloth patch's.

Is old English oil OK on the stock ?

I used Hoppe's 9 as well on my M39. Cut through the cosmoline like nobodies business. I use Old English Lemon Oil on my stocks.

The original stock on a 1942 Tula would most likely be the early style with screwed in sling slot escutcheons - at some point in either very late 1942 or early 1943 Tula went from this style to the pressed in oval escutcheons - there are no reported 1942 dated TULA stocks with the pressed in escutcheons and no 1943 dated TULA stocks with the screwed in escutcheons, but Tula stocks from this era with intact readable markings are so rare that it has not been determined yet when this change occurred.

The stock on this rifle is a post-war replacement, with the dovetailed in toe piece. The repair above the escutcheon is interesting - I've seen these identical shaped repairs elsewhere on the butt of new refurb stocks so it was either used to patch a flaw such as a knot in the wood or could have been used to fix damage that occurred either when the stock was made or at some later point. Because of it's shape and location, it is of course also possible that someone started to cut the sling slot in the wrong location after one of those "half bottle of vodka" lunches and then realized their mistake and corrected it in time to avoid a trip to Siberia for sabotaging Comrade Stalin's good Mosin rifle.

I would not mess around with trying to replace the front band with a Tula marked one - the rifle is a refurb anyhow, so whatever is on it is correct. Also, this would involve removing the front sight to get the band off and it's always better to leave things like this alone rather than risk damaging something.

bunkysdad wrote:I agree. Stock repairs make them more interesting

+1, I have bought one or two simply because of the stock repairs. OP, Nice Tula btw.

Nice one

Love the butt stock repair. Looks like Ivan had to much Vodka one morning and didn't center it in the jig

No Brake Cleaner Hot water and a little Purple Power works wonders and that is assuming the rifle is out of the stock. I don't know if these are before or after pictures. Doesn't look like it needs much of a cleaning at all.

qz2026 wrote:Nice one

Love the butt stock repair. Looks like Ivan had to much Vodka one morning and didn't center it in the jig

No Brake Cleaner Hot water and a little Purple Power works wonders and that is assuming the rifle is out of the stock. I don't know if these are before or after pictures. Doesn't look like it needs much of a cleaning at all.

The Stock repair pictures are > cleaning

I did not use brake cleaner on the stock, never did never will. Sometimes I use it on the metal only. This time I used Hot water and simple green only as it was not that Cosmoline coated .

Thanks for the Tip and I have used purple power before too