Mosin...who has em

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who loves em and who has I have 2 of them. One of them is a Tula. I bought the other as I was planning on making a deer rifle out if it with a new stock and rattle paint job.....but I haven't gotten to it! lol

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well I just saw this is a autoloading kommie subforum...oops

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I have a few, an ex-sniper, a hex Tula, a Remington, and a few carbines as well. I snatched them up when they were going for $130 everywhere.
I have a $40 in a T53 that I'm planning to put a brass-stacker and scout scope on just for fun. I won't permanently mod one unless it's already been bubba'd up somehow.
 
I have a few.

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I'm down to 15 or so. :cool:
 

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Traded a few off since I bought my first one in 2003. Down to six right now: two Russian M44, two Chinese T53s, a wartime 91/30, and one of the Molot PU Snipers that were imported over here a few years back.

Great guns, rich history, tons of character, and an absolute blast (pardon the pun) to shoot. I try to rotate mine regularly on range trips, but don't shoot them as much as I used to. Whenever someone mentions "the good old days" of firearms, Mosins and 7.62x54r is what comes to my mind.
 
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I like em. If you run out of ammo, you still have a tent post.
 
Heeey! Kyle here!
Just popped in the check on this subforum. Junk and scrap metal, I love it! There really is no end to all the neat stuff you can make from these things. TaTa!
 
Mine have all passed on, but I unearthed a random stash of Bulgarian yellow tip on stripper clips while packing to move :)
 
NCLivingBrit;n43453 said:
Mine have all passed on, but I unearthed a random stash of Bulgarian yellow tip on stripper clips while packing to move :)

I can probably carve out some space in my ammo closet if you have no use for this stuff anymore ;)
 
IUHoosier429;n43477 said:
I can probably carve out some space in my ammo closet if you have no use for this stuff anymore ;)

With the cyclical nature of things, I'll probably end up with another one when they find another five million in a ditch near Stalingrad. Thanks though ;)
 
I quit buying them when they went over $49...

The only one I have left is a bubba I picked up for $20 new at Rose's back in the day...
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Over the last few years, I've owned 4 of them. Two Izzys, one Hex Tula, and one unissued 1948 M44. Paid $79 for the 3 91/30's, and $130 for the M44. When they doubled in price, I sold all of them.

I enjoyed the history behind them, and as a rifle, I found them to be very neat, but I got virtually no enjoyment out of shooting them. It was a rifle intended to stand up to the harshness of combat and Soviet winters. To last years in the hands of illiterate conscripts. All admirable qualities in a battle rifle. User friendliness took a back seat. Most of all, it was the triggers that made them so unlikeable to me. My best mosin had a terrible trigger. My worst mosin's trigger pull reminded me of dragging an automatic transmission across a gravel parking lot. I enjoyed them while I had them, but I certainly do not miss them.
 
RedneckFur;n43559 said:
Over the last few years, I've owned 4 of them. Two Izzys, one Hex Tula, and one unissued 1948 M44. Paid $79 for the 3 91/30's, and $130 for the M44. When they doubled in price, I sold all of them.

I enjoyed the history behind them, and as a rifle, I found them to be very neat, but I got virtually no enjoyment out of shooting them. It was a rifle intended to stand up to the harshness of combat and Soviet winters. To last years in the hands of illiterate conscripts. All admirable qualities in a battle rifle. User friendliness took a back seat. Most of all, it was the triggers that made them so unlikeable to me. My best mosin had a terrible trigger. My worst mosin's trigger pull reminded me of dragging an automatic transmission across a gravel parking lot. I enjoyed them while I had them, but I certainly do not miss them.

I'm with you on this. The great thing about milsurp was interesting historic rifles for cheap. Now you can just about(sometimes less) get modern rifles for the same money. Most of them suck from an ergonomics standpoint too. The history part is interesting but they serve little purpose beyond that anymore...
 
I have (fortunately) found a guy who is interested in trading silver for all my old milsurps. I just traded 3 AKs for a nice quantity. They were interesting and cheap. Now I just want functionality and parts availability and NATO ammo. I am getting my two mosins and the Tokarev ready to go the same route.
 
RedneckFur said:
Over the last few years, I've owned 4 of them. Two Izzys, one Hex Tula, and one unissued 1948 M44. Paid $79 for the 3 91/30's, and $130 for the M44. When they doubled in price, I sold all of them.

I enjoyed the history behind them, and as a rifle, I found them to be very neat, but I got virtually no enjoyment out of shooting them. It was a rifle intended to stand up to the harshness of combat and Soviet winters. To last years in the hands of illiterate conscripts. All admirable qualities in a battle rifle. User friendliness took a back seat. Most of all, it was the triggers that made them so unlikeable to me. My best mosin had a terrible trigger. My worst mosin's trigger pull reminded me of dragging an automatic transmission across a gravel parking lot. I enjoyed them while I had them, but I certainly do not miss them.
Mine have all had decent triggers and have been a hoot to shoot.
 
I picked up a hand picked round receiver M44 at Dan Ammo from up North probably around 10 years ago for $75 shipped. It's a 1945 version that was in excellent condition especially the bore. I did eventually refinish the stock and cork bed the action as well as added a trigger spring to take up the trigger slack,it has a nice smooth break. I also added a S & K scout mount and a 3 x 7 x 32 LER scope. Shoot fairly decent groups with Bulgarian or Russian surplus but will drill holes with good handloads especially my cast lead loads.
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My other Mosin is a 1933 HEX receiver 91/30 from TULA,I picked it up last year from my brother for $100. The bore was just as good as the one on the M44 stock was starting to show it's age as some of the bluing needed to be touched up so I basically did the same with it as I did the M44 except I went with a blonde stock and installed a MOJO rear peep sight instead of a scope which I didn't install until after I made the pic. I haven't fired a single rd. of factory ammo in the rifle but instead I going to go for now with a heavy cast load that will eventually end up around 2K fps. I'm currently at 1600+ fps. with my handloads using 185 gr. Lee RN an H-4895.
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I like my Mosin's there good shooters,didn't cost me very much an will do anything I need to do with them.
 
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Love those Finnish Mosins.
 
East of Here said:
That is a batch of the dirty Albanian T53 imports from a couple of years back - fresh out of the box. IIRC, I think they were 3 for $199 with free delivery. They were so cheap, they wouldn't even put any bubble wrap or paper in the box, they'd just throw the first 3 off the pile into a big box and tape it shut. When these came, I met the UPS driver in the driveway and you should have seen the look on his face when he handed me this big, heavy cardboard box with rifle barrels sticking out of holes on 3 sides. It was pretty epic.
 
I've got one. Hell, I thought everybody has one. If you don't, you should.
 
The Chatellerault and P-26 are my favorites. I'll post a few more when we upgrade, I'm still having trouble with resizing pics.
 

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Oh man, lol, I bought my first one when I was stationed in Beaufort SC probably a dozen years ago, nothing special just a Shotgun News 99 dollar special that came with everything.

Since then I have collected the Finnish variety, even had a collection of Finn rifles that was only missing a few noteworthy examples, then LOVE stepped in and I thinned the collection out(then love stepped itself OUT) to a Finn capture 1939 Tula 91/30, a PU scoped M39, and a real beater 91/30 I got from my Gunsmith. The last one I mentioned is the most fun, at least with corrosive ammo.

At this point I have an M27, an M91 (Finn rebuild of course ;)), the scoped M39 (which is a 1970s build sneak as they called them), I snagged a beautiful Polish M44 that I have to do a stock repair to, the 39 Finn capture Tula, and the beater.
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Heres the 39, the 27, and the 91/30
 
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Never seen a Mosin I didn't like. Even the beat up ones have a certain beauty about them.

And cosmoline, need I say more?
 
Man those Finns look sweet. Might need to add one to my collection.

DS
 
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That's pretty furniture, wolfie!
 
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