The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Longcolt44 wrote:There a 1000 reasons a stock was replaced, pick the most romantic. Your rifle may have not seen Stalingrad but there is a very good chance it does have a body or 2 on it.

In that case, I'll come up with a story that's way more creative

This is a rifle that was refurbished by the Soviets after WW2, during the process the rifles were stripped down to the last bit and the parts were refurbished and inspected with thousands of like parts, at the end of the line the barreled receivers were reassembled into rifles without regard for wh...

I can't quite make out your serial number, but it looks like it ends in 96? Maybe Someone adopted the Mauser practice of only stamping the last two numbers. :vconfused: Beat me. 4M96 is what is on the barrel. Also, although you can't see it well in the pic, there is actually an arrow in the star. I...

Here's an interesting marking on the butt of the gun: http://i.imgur.com/5J93a.jpg Considering there are Izhevsk and Tula markings on it, and then what appears to be a previous serial number "scratched out" with a new one that matches the barrel leads me to believe (I'm no expert) that the...

The Yugo is about flawless from what I can tell. I'm very happy with it. I'll post more pictures of it if requested, but I figured since this was a Mosin forum I would stay on topic ;) After taking this thing completely apart and putting it back together to clean it, I can understand why it was so w...

desdem12 wrote:That is a fine pair. The yugo looks real clean. How much was that SKS? SWEET

The gunsmith had already cleaned it up, even though it's an "unfired reissue". I walked out the door with it for $400. Definitely stoked to take him and his older brother to the range!

It's a Yugo M59/66. ice '42 Tula, but the pics are a bit fuzzy, what are the details? Sounds like you know more than I do... it's a '42 Tula 91/30. All the numbers match and the stock is about perfect except for a small nick towards the front of the barrel. I'll post better pics once I get it cleane...

I hope you are not talking about refinishing the stock? :no: That and add a bunch of tacti-cool items to it :P I'm kidding, I would never do that, and I can't imagine why anybody would. If anything I'm thinking that if the stock shows age that might even be a good thing in another 50 years. I'm eve...

Cleaning regularly will keep the rifle rust free, this works well until you hit 20 rifles or so, then you start to notice the amount of time you are spending oiling up rifles. Once it hits 50 rifles yo are setting aside hours a week for the task, past 100 and it's just impossible without a full tim...

I have 3 all cleaned up and the rest remain in cosmoline. With my other rifles, I figure 3 is enough to keep me happy at the range :) I suppose at the price they're going for these days, you can't just buy one! Unfortunately my gun addiction is starting to exceed my safe-storage capabilities, and I...

You wouldn't want to have cosmo all over your hands while handling a loaded weapon. :D Hah, no kidding. Although, technically, all guns are always loaded :wink: I guess I'm asking in case there are other ways of preserving it that may have developed in the past 50 years. Perhaps just cleaning it re...

If cosmoline preserves the gun, and I want it to last, why would I want to clean off the cosmoline?

Obviously I couldn't fire the weapon if I didn't clean it off, but if I'm keeping it for collecting purposes it seems like preserving it would be a good thing.

I'll just "rephrase" what I said that got edited: hobbies are way more fun when they are interactive!

I would never dream of modifying my Mosin. Also, it shipped this morning. I'm excited!

we're very interactive with our hobby!

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"Because I'm a gun collector" her: "That's a good reason" When WeldonHunter told me about these forums, I thought there would be nobody here. Apparently I was way wrong. I convinced a good friend of mine to finally buy his first gun (a Mosin Nagant) because of the cheap price and...