alpalwal

I'll try that out. I also have a 91/30 I picked up at the same time because it was on sale. They're way too fun.

Smith-02

you know you own a mosin when:

you knock down everyone elses targets downrange from the shockwave

you hit the broadside of a barn 2 counties over

you fire a second shot to relocate the dislocated shoulder from the first shot

you can go polevaulting with your rifle

QikEnuF

Buying one tommorow, you son of a bitch... I have a bone to pick with you.

alpalwal

ha

t_cel_t

AK: You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.
AR: Your rifle’s accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.
Mosin: Your rifle’s accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid,
but it’s buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.
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AK: Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.
AR: Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.
Mosin: Your bayonet is longer than your leg.
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AK: Your sight adjustment goes to “10″, and you’ve never bothered
moving it.
AR: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of
angle.
Mosin: Your sight adjustment goes to 2 miles and you’ve actually
tried it.
=====
AK: Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation’s most illiterate
conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.
AR: Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit
nations’ most illiterate conscripts.
Mosin: Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.
=====
AK: You buy cheap ammo by the case.
AR: You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.
Mosin: You dig your ammo out of a farmer’s field in Ukraine and it
works just fine.
=====
AK: Service life, 50 years.
AR: Service life, 40 years.
Mosin: Service life, 100 years, and counting.
=====
AK: It’s easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge
sizes.
AR: You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins
and a new upper.
Mosin: You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his
friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62×54r.
=====
AK: You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to
burst into flames.
AR: You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot
group.
Mosin: You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds
without the aid of a 2×4.
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AK: After a long day the range you relax by watching “Red Dawn”.
AR: After a long day at the range you relax by watching “Blackhawk
Down”.
Mosin: After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the
chiropractor, then watching “Enemy at the Gates“.
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AK: Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint.
AR: Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.
Mosin: Your rifle’s finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and a
paste made from Olga’s ground up toenail clippings.
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AK: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail
Kalashnikov.
AR: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene
Stoner.
Mosin: Cameras had not even been invented to photograph the young
Sergei Mosin.
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AK: It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever.
AR: You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon
infused oil for cleaning.
Mosin: It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.

QikEnuF

Just got back from buying/shooting my Nagant. Bad *** gun, had no issues with it running 20 rounds through it. Gotta get a nice case for it now, and I ordered a couple 100rd lots from Cabela's because they are a lot cheaper that way than 20 at a time from semi-local gun store. Any advice on cleaning the stock? Mine's got some greenish ---- on it that I'd like to remove. Goddamn you complex...

Edit: There has to be a goddamn way to get this bastard safetied... ------- christ it hurts trying

Smith-02

i told you, then you said 'im a big guy, ill handle it'

they're a bitch, but thats because it's the same spring as the firing pin spring, aka may as well be a coil off of a honda.

murphys oil soap and a 3m mesh sanding pad thing to strip the stock down. sand with paper beforehand if you need to. restain it in the color of your choice. shellac it, or get it urethane coated, or even rubberized (plasti-dip will work )

alpalwal

for the safties some people send them away to be modified to have rings on the back. It's easier to put it on safety that way.

I took my 91/30 out this week and I was having a bitch of a time ejecting the shells. Getting the bolt all the way straight up took just about an act of god. Is that just from using ---- milsurp ammo? Anything else I can do?

Smith-02

actions on mosins are butter smooth. pb plaster your receiver and bolt. let sit. clean. try again

t_cel_t

if you guys are having a hard time with opening the bolt after firing its because you got some ---- in the chamber that grabs onto the case as it expands. what i did was take a 12 gauge shotgun brass brush and put it on a cleaning rod and stick it on a drill and get some solvent on the brush and then go to town for like 5 minutes on the chamber.
keep oscillating the brush to get all the cosmoline/rust/**** blood out of there and then pour a bunch of soapy water through it and then oil it up and it will work awesome.