Crusty old battle rifles: The Mosin-Nagant

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Picked up the below M91/30 at a local gun show ($98 OTD). This particular example was made at Tula Arsenal in 1932 and sometime in it’s life was rearsenaled and fitted with a replacement stock.

Mosins are seemingly everywhere these days and quite nice ones can be had for under $100. This one was a little more because it has a so-called earlier “hex receiver” versus the round one.

Sometimes they’re accurate and sometimes they’re not, but kind of fun to shoot. Anyone have one that’s reasonably accurate?

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I suppose they killed enough Nazis to earn some respect, but man what a piece of shit compared to anything except an Arisaka.

B_C

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I think the qualities that the Russians liked were that they were simple enough to be operated by the average untrained peasant and reliable in all battlefield conditions.

Essentially, if it went “bang” and the bayonet fitted OK, it did everything that was ever asked of a Mosin-Nagant. :smiley:

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Very nice, Slater.

Do you have ammo for it?

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Yep, got some Wolf 7.62x54R and also some surplus 1985 Russian stuff.

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Nice. You probably know this already, but treat all surplus x54R as corrosive. I have a 1945 Soviet M44, and a 1953 Hungarian M44. Beautiful little carbines. The Hungarian was bought unissued for $59 back in 2002.

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I have a 1944-dated Izhevsk M44 that I got from Big 5 a few years back, for something like $80 OTD. It’s certainly a piece of history, and I often wonder what it’s witnessed over the years. It’s been arsenal rebuilt, and it doesn’t match, but it shoots rather well, at least as well as my poor eyes can do with the tiny Mosin sights.

While I’ll certainly give the Mauser and the Enfield the edge in terms of ergonomics, one thing the Germans constantly complained about during the war was how their Mausers couldn’t equal the Mosins for accuracy.

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i got an M44 awhile back from my C&R licensed buddy for 65 bucks. Not a bad purchase, but i wouldn’t pay much more than that either. :smiley:

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Excellent! Remember hot soapy water through the boar or Ballistol(or the like).

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I like my two M44s.

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Or an ammonia based RBC.

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Finnish M39.

FN heavy barrel made under Nazi occupation in 1942 to kill Soviets in The Continuation War (1941-1944). Receiver was built at the old Imperial Russian Sestroryetsk Arsenal in 1899, and was rebuilt by the Finns, as all Finn Mosin Nagants were.

Free floated in the arctic birch stock.

Finn Rangers bringing the pain to the Soviets.

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Gebirgsjaeger with a captured M91/30 sniper…

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I would have thought the standard rack-grade Mauser K98k to be a more accurate weapon than the corresponding Mosin M91/30.

BTW, beautiful rifle, Templar. As I understand it, the Finns built to a generally higher quality standard than the Russians.

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I dream of a Fin, like that. Right now I am just pleased to own:
a matching numbered 1945 M44 from Izhevsk. As a Saiga fan, having two rifles from the same arsenal a Mossin and a new-fangled .308 just makes me all kinds of happy.

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Forgot about my Finn Mosin Nagant. 1944 dates reciever, FN made barrel looked brand new when I got it. Shoots Yugo heavy ball with gusto.

A huge problem with Mosins is that they have a nasty tendency to multiply. Pretty soon you’ll want an M-44, M-38, M-91/59, etc. There’s no cure for the C&R bug. :sarcastic:

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Yep, same boat one day I too need to acquire a Finnish rifle.