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TaosBob101

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(6/1/05 13:42)

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What's your favorite Mosin ?

 

How many do you have ?

 

Do you favor Finn production over Russian ?

 

And do back up your favorite Arms Board files to your home machine ?

 

RGRWJB

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(6/1/05 21:20)

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ezSupporter

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I rather talk about Karls pink m/39.

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fritz501

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(6/1/05 22:16)

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I wish I had an M39. Anything has to be better than the Russian versions!

 

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ksswamprat

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(6/1/05 23:01)

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I just aquired a 38 carbine (I think). Haven't done anything with it yet. It's Russian and ugly as sin. Stock has been chopped and a very bad fitting recoil pad added. Compared to my 1909 Argentine the action is like dragging a telephone pole across a asphalt road to a ice skater on a fresh surface. I want to make this a nice shooter. What kind of stock? What can I do to action? What about scope mount's? Or are they needed? Trigger pull? And for God's sake tell me what to do about the safety? I want to make this old cannon a 21st century prize. Since there are no archieves (at this time) maybe this is a good place to start rebuilding. A novice Mosin-Nagant owner and all of you. I am blind lead me.

 

Swamprat

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RGRWJB

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(6/2/05 9:02)

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ezSupporter

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The m/39s are the best shooters. Century Arms now have 7.62x54R ammo on sale for FFL holds for $29 per 440 rds.

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Frappe72

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(6/2/05 14:43)

Reply Howdy!

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I love the Mosin's even if they are strange and ugly to some. I have five of them consisting of two M91/30's, one M44, one M91/59, and one Finnish M39. I would't change a thing about any of them.

 

HFSPBfan

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(6/10/05 7:33)

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Welcome to the world of Mosin Nagants Swamprat. I would advise against buying the ATI stock, unless you enjoy doing extensive inletting and bedding. All of the shooters that I have encountered who bought these stocks have the same problem. The action will bolt to the stock but the action is not properly supported and accuracy suffers. I would try the ria stock from Boyds. It is listed at $56.52 on their web site.

 

I saw an excellent scout type mount on another site that is on sale for $50. On the other end of the spectrum is the Chinese scout mount sold by CDNN for $12.99. It is ok to use this mount if you: 1) throw away the fasteners that come with the mount and replace them with new ones from a hardware store. I believe that the fasteners are metric. 2) do not attempt to use the small screws that secure the mount to the rear sight. As stated on an earlier post, drill out the mount holes and use the original rear sight pin and spring.

 

The ATI scope mount uses a more conventional short eye relief rifle scope. I have installed this mount with good results, however this mount can be tricky to install. There are many pitfalls with this kit such as drilling the mount holes too far forward. You could end up drilling through the chamber. You will also have to cut off the bolt knob in order to install this kit. This is not a good mount for the novice to install.

 

The trigger can be improved by polishing the bolt and the cocking notch. You can also improve the trigger by reducing the sear spring width and/or shimming the sear spring screw. Just make sure that you have an extra sear spring on hand before any attempt at modifying the sear spring. Insure that the trigger is safe before loading any ammo! I have yet to see a safety modification that will make it as easy to use as some of the aftermarket units for the mauser. I am sure that others have additional ideas to share. I hope this will help you.

 

mantielkman

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(6/15/05 21:07)

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I have a Finnish unissued m39, an m44, m38, and two 91/30's. I haven't shot the m39 as it is my keeper, but it is a real looker. I just finished restoring one of the 91/30's and it turned out real nice. It is a light blonde. The other 91/30 is still as is but seems to a good shooter. We had no trouble at all hitting a steel gong 15'' diameter at 100 yards out of the box, standing freehand. I love my m38 and m44. Both are real good shooters. I have been shooting Albanian 7.62 x 54r and it chambers kind of rough. That seems to be more the problem of the weapon and not the ammo. I am a real fan of Mosin Nagants.

 

Walnuthead

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(7/2/05 7:58)

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The first Mosin I bought was a Fin 91-30 from Samco, I love that potbelly stock. I also have a couple of M39's and a 91/30 sniper. I bought them all for different reasons and I'm not really sure which one I like the best.

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I like my M38 Mosin-Nagant better than the others (but don't tell them!), even my antique Finnish M39 isn't as fun...actually my M39 is sort of painful to shoot, whereas the carbines seem milder. That's the exact opposite of what I had read about these guns before acquiring a variety of them! The only major variant of the Mosin-Nagant family that I don't have yet is the 91/59, so I am probably jumping the gun here about which I like the best.

 

I am not all that fanatical about M-Ns, though I do like them very much...I just don't feel the need to have every single version that was ever produced, but I am amazed by the zeal with which other people collect these firearms!

 

Let's see, the numbers...I have 1 POS Russian M44 that shoots great, I have 1 beautiful Romanian M44 that shoots better than the Russian, I have a Russian 91/30, a Russian M38 and the Finnish M39...so I just have 5 currently, though, I want to get one of the highly touted Polish M44s at some point, just because I have heard that these are the best of the M44s where fit and finish are concerned.

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I only have two M-Ns--an M91 from the late 1890's with an Austrian WWI capture mark and A Chinese communist copy of the M44 dating from the mid '50s. I might acquire a Finn one of these days, but don't really have any mania to collect any more of them. I like M-Ns, but not nearly as much as garands, springfields, lee enfields, and American enfields.

 

I dunno, M-Ns were cheap, simple, reliable, and served their purpose perfectly (said purpose being to provide a spear with a built-in noisemaker to the untrained hoardes of eastern Europe) but I prefer the more sophisticated milsurps.

 

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