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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I need to thin the collection a bit myself.stickman61 said:I'm down to 15 or so.
Make sure you guys thin the herd on here so we get first dibs at incredibly reasonable prices!stickman61 said:I'm down to 15 or so.
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
IUHoosier429;n43477 said:I can probably carve out some space in my ammo closet if you have no use for this stuff anymore
I am in need of 3 hex reciever rifles to finish filling my coffetable I am not picky as to what they are besides hex and matching.stickman61 said:I'm down to 15 or so.
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.
Mine have all had decent triggers and have been a hoot to shoot.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.
They look like they need a little love of the oil variety.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.East of Here said:
I'm with you aint seen one yet I don't wanna own lolelirab said: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?
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