have a mosin? post it ! - Page 7

vtxmauser · December 21, 2013, 10:33 AM

Yeah all cosmo gone, cleaned up,hand guard, and Finn sling installed. This Mosin was also a Finn capture.

Mohave-Tec · December 22, 2013, 11:00 AM

I had been thinking about buying an antique rifle for a wall hanger to put over my reloading bench. Then I saw a crate of these at a tiny local store about 6 weeks ago. I ran home and punched in "What to look for in a Mosin Nagant" then ran back to the store. Yep, one hex in the crate. That's all I knew. It took a couple days to fully discover what I had.
1933 Izhevsk M91/30. MO 1933/50. Red Letter. All numbers matching, even the bayonet. In excellent condition except the stock as is usual for a rearsenaled rifle.

I pulled all the metal apart and boiled out the cosmoline, re-lubed the gun, checked for danger then headed for the desert. Just so you know, I clocked the 147gr misurp rounds at a modest 2750 fps.

Now I love things of beauty and I can see things of beauty in old guns. When I started this quest I had imagined an old western lever action with half the bluing gone and great ware and petina in the stock as my wall hanger. This would have been perfect with the Mosin as well but the more I looked at the slopped on varnish oozing with cosmoline the more I couldn't accept it. 'How to clean this gun up and maintain my appreciation for things antique? Buy a discarded stock off ebay. Yeah!!!'

Two weeks later I both finished the "new" stock and the M44 arrived. Now the M44 is apart and its second stock is drying. Here they are at that point in time...

Even though the original stocks are off the rifle and carbine, I still wanted to preserve the markings in the incorrect stocks so all I did with these new-used stocks is strip them and use 0000 steel wool on them so they are light and dark as they were before refinishing. I didn't try to correct for that. And with multiple coats of tung oil I am less afraid to take them out and bang them around in the desert.

I'll have more pictures when the carbine is finished. I would have those pictures today but when I discovered I could buy new-used stocks for these guns I also discovered I could buy new seer springs, bolt springs and trigger kits so the carbine remains apart on my bench while I wait for these things to arrive. I'm saving all the original parts and using the newly refinished stocks and new-used parts to make these rifles real shooters while preserving all the history of these rifles. These rifles may end up on a wall but they will also go to the desert or the range regularly and see alot of action.

ChasingWhitetail91 · December 22, 2013, 11:37 AM

Looks like an older rifle with an even older set of shooting sticks vtxmauser

Duzell · December 22, 2013, 02:56 PM

looks good for its age. hows its handling ?

Chad.C · December 22, 2013, 08:53 PM

I gotta get a mosin but the two nearest LGS in my area have them for 200 bucks

I keep talking myself out of buying one but its gets harder every time I see one

teeroux · December 22, 2013, 11:18 PM

^^

My LGSs too. It wouldn't be so bad if the uniformed wouldn't buy them at that price. So they will only go up from here.

Duzell · January 11, 2014, 12:08 PM

yep, but on bright side our mosins get worth more

tobnpr · January 11, 2014, 04:54 PM

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/p...ional+Arms+Inc.

$143, shipped.

Duzell · January 13, 2014, 01:16 PM

good price

rottieman33 · January 29, 2014, 07:22 PM

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Duzell · January 30, 2014, 02:02 PM

clean
but i wonder if you say something along the lines of " i just 'a door' them"

wingspar · February 5, 2014, 07:55 PM

1942 M38

TMW89 · February 5, 2014, 09:35 PM

Pretty! Cool picture

Duzell · July 6, 2014, 06:14 PM

LETS KICK this off , i waited till summer as i wanted to let the new members that we've got contribute

and you senior members that may have not found the thread

Post your mosins!

tahunua001 · July 6, 2014, 06:21 PM

just when you think it's dead, it starts twitching again!

Duzell · July 6, 2014, 06:23 PM

-TWITCH-

exactly , like a roach

Mosin-Marauder · July 7, 2014, 08:51 PM

OH MY GOSH! WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Say hello to my babies. :3

My Mosin is a 1941 Izhevsk. It's got a few dings and scrapes on the stock that you can't see from the picture. But I'm not gonna refinish it. I'm in the process of ordering a spam can of ammo to shoot through it, so I can learn to shoot it better.

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My K-31 is a 1949 model with a Beech Stock (I had to include both my babies

).

Duzell · July 7, 2014, 09:08 PM

K31 is kinda out a place

Mosin-Marauder · July 7, 2014, 09:12 PM

Yeah, I didn't have any good pictures of my Mosin other than this one, which happened to include the K-31.

tahunua001 · July 8, 2014, 12:22 AM

it happens to the best of us MM, here are about the only pictures I have of my mosin.

oh, and my old Springfield and Enfield.

December 22, 2013, 11:00 AM	#152
Mohave-Tec Senior Member Join Date: May 28, 2013 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 118	New to Mosin I had been thinking about buying an antique rifle for a wall hanger to put over my reloading bench. Then I saw a crate of these at a tiny local store about 6 weeks ago. I ran home and punched in "What to look for in a Mosin Nagant" then ran back to the store. Yep, one hex in the crate. That's all I knew. It took a couple days to fully discover what I had. 1933 Izhevsk M91/30. MO 1933/50. Red Letter. All numbers matching, even the bayonet. In excellent condition except the stock as is usual for a rearsenaled rifle. I pulled all the metal apart and boiled out the cosmoline, re-lubed the gun, checked for danger then headed for the desert. Just so you know, I clocked the 147gr misurp rounds at a modest 2750 fps. Now I love things of beauty and I can see things of beauty in old guns. When I started this quest I had imagined an old western lever action with half the bluing gone and great ware and petina in the stock as my wall hanger. This would have been perfect with the Mosin as well but the more I looked at the slopped on varnish oozing with cosmoline the more I couldn't accept it. 'How to clean this gun up and maintain my appreciation for things antique? Buy a discarded stock off ebay. Yeah!!!' Two weeks later I both finished the "new" stock and the M44 arrived. Now the M44 is apart and its second stock is drying. Here they are at that point in time... Even though the original stocks are off the rifle and carbine, I still wanted to preserve the markings in the incorrect stocks so all I did with these new-used stocks is strip them and use 0000 steel wool on them so they are light and dark as they were before refinishing. I didn't try to correct for that. And with multiple coats of tung oil I am less afraid to take them out and bang them around in the desert. I'll have more pictures when the carbine is finished. I would have those pictures today but when I discovered I could buy new-used stocks for these guns I also discovered I could buy new seer springs, bolt springs and trigger kits so the carbine remains apart on my bench while I wait for these things to arrive. I'm saving all the original parts and using the newly refinished stocks and new-used parts to make these rifles real shooters while preserving all the history of these rifles. These rifles may end up on a wall but they will also go to the desert or the range regularly and see alot of action.

December 22, 2013, 11:37 AM	#153
ChasingWhitetail91 Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2012 Location: Connecticut Posts: 336	Looks like an older rifle with an even older set of shooting sticks vtxmauser __________________ Abraham Lincoln made all men free, Samuel Colt made them equal.

December 22, 2013, 02:56 PM	#154
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	looks good for its age. hows its handling ? __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

December 22, 2013, 08:53 PM	#155
Chad.C Senior Member Join Date: July 15, 2013 Posts: 100	I gotta get a mosin but the two nearest LGS in my area have them for 200 bucks I keep talking myself out of buying one but its gets harder every time I see one __________________ Life is not like a box of chocolates... It's more like a jar of jalapenos: What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow!

January 11, 2014, 12:08 PM	#157
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	yep, but on bright side our mosins get worth more __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

December 21, 2013, 10:33 AM	#151
vtxmauser Member Join Date: April 7, 2013 Posts: 16	Yeah all cosmo gone, cleaned up,hand guard, and Finn sling installed. This Mosin was also a Finn capture.

December 22, 2013, 11:18 PM	#156
teeroux Senior Member Join Date: December 12, 2006 Posts: 1,512	^^ My LGSs too. It wouldn't be so bad if the uniformed wouldn't buy them at that price. So they will only go up from here.

January 11, 2014, 04:54 PM	#158
tobnpr Senior Member Join Date: August 1, 2010 Location: Tampa Bay Posts: 4,556	http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/p...ional+Arms+Inc. $143, shipped. __________________ Remington 700/Savage Rebarreling /Action Blueprinting 07 FFL /Mosin-Nagant Custom Shop/Bent Bolts Genuine Cerakote Applicator www.biggorillagunworks.com

January 13, 2014, 01:16 PM	#159
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	good price __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

January 29, 2014, 07:22 PM	#160
rottieman33 Senior Member Join Date: September 27, 2009 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 223	[IMG][/IMG]

January 30, 2014, 02:02 PM	#161
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	clean but i wonder if you say something along the lines of " i just 'a door' them" __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

February 5, 2014, 07:55 PM	#162
wingspar Senior Member Join Date: September 24, 2009 Location: Oregon Posts: 258	1942 M38 __________________ Gary Will Fly for Food... and more Ammo

February 5, 2014, 09:35 PM	#163
TMW89 Senior Member Join Date: March 3, 2013 Location: MI Posts: 185	Pretty! Cool picture __________________ Springfield XDM9C Savage Mark II F .22 H&R ultra slug hunter 20 ga 1942 Mosin Nagant "Natalia"

July 6, 2014, 06:14 PM	#164
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	2014 MOSIN of the firing line LETS KICK this off , i waited till summer as i wanted to let the new members that we've got contribute and you senior members that may have not found the thread Post your mosins! __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

July 6, 2014, 06:21 PM	#165
tahunua001 Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 7,839	just when you think it's dead, it starts twitching again! __________________ ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did-Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet-Benjamin Franklin

July 6, 2014, 06:23 PM	#166
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	-TWITCH- exactly , like a roach __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

July 7, 2014, 08:51 PM	#167
Mosin-Marauder Senior Member Join Date: April 18, 2014 Location: North Carolina Posts: 2,320	OH MY GOSH! WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Say hello to my babies. :3 My Mosin is a 1941 Izhevsk. It's got a few dings and scrapes on the stock that you can't see from the picture. But I'm not gonna refinish it. I'm in the process of ordering a spam can of ammo to shoot through it, so I can learn to shoot it better. . My K-31 is a 1949 model with a Beech Stock (I had to include both my babies ). __________________ Proud owner of three (four-ish) pieces of history! K-31, Mosin-Nagant M91/30, M24/47 Mauser, Norinco SKS. "You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm..." William Tecumseh Sherman

July 7, 2014, 09:08 PM	#168
Duzell Senior Member Join Date: October 30, 2011 Location: Monterey Posts: 803	K31 is kinda out a place __________________ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -GW

July 7, 2014, 09:12 PM	#169
Mosin-Marauder Senior Member Join Date: April 18, 2014 Location: North Carolina Posts: 2,320	Yeah, I didn't have any good pictures of my Mosin other than this one, which happened to include the K-31. __________________ Proud owner of three (four-ish) pieces of history! K-31, Mosin-Nagant M91/30, M24/47 Mauser, Norinco SKS. "You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm..." William Tecumseh Sherman

July 8, 2014, 12:22 AM	#170
tahunua001 Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 7,839	it happens to the best of us MM, here are about the only pictures I have of my mosin. oh, and my old Springfield and Enfield. __________________ ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did-Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet-Benjamin Franklin