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Fun With A Mosin Nagant


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Very nice!

 

I have always like the full length stock look.

 

Did you carve that on yourself or pick it up somewhere?

 

Interested to hear how it shoots.

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Thank you for the kind words.

The stock is (2) 3/4 pieces of mahogony, kiln dried boards, glued up, from a local home store. It's just thick enough! I traced the old Mosin stock on a piece of cardboard. On top of this I traced my model 70 stock in a different color and blended the two. I transfered this to the wood. I had a local woodshop cut out the shape on their band saw. Then you start inletting. You can cheat a little with a drill press and a few carboard templates at first. It's amazing to watch the inletting take shape as you remove a splinter at a time. The recoil pad is cut from a flip flop. The spacer is a piece of 1/4 " sub-floor, the cheek pad is a piece of leather from a local furniture store. I finished the stock with dark walnut, sanded this to exposed raw wood. That's what gives it the grainy look. I restained the whole thing with a color called "gunstock" and put 7 coats of boiled linseed oil on it. I will let you know how it shoots.

 

KC

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Thank you for the kind words.

The stock is (2) 3/4 pieces of mahogony, kiln dried boards, glued up..

KC

 

 

Thanks for posting that.

I have 14 MNs and 9 of those are in states of modification.

 

With 4 of the Tennessee Guns bull barrels, we may make some stock from scratch. You are an inspiration.

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Nice looking scope mount. I've played with a few different styles myself but they all put the scope too high for my taste. If you decide to make a stock like the one I made, match the boards to each other the best you possibly can. If you do a good job gluing them up to thickness the average person would have trouble telling they were not one piece of solid wood. I used mahogony because it is dimensionally sound and 1/3 the cost of black walnut boards. Watch the you tube video of "filing flats to make it round".

 

Good Luck!

 

KC

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  • 2 weeks later...

What an awesome rifle! I have been working on an all weather Mannlicher Mosin for over a year. I have a butterknife bolt handle also, and had my entire rifle coated with electroless nickel. My stock is an ATI synthetic that I extended. I thought I would have had it back by now, but my friend has it at a different shop and I haven't received it yet. Here is a what I had of the stock...you'll get the picture on the rest later ( I HOPE!).

 

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