The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Cleaning the mosin of rust is taking a lot longer than anticipated, I just spent 45 minutes cleaning the top of from the sight to where the barrel on the bottom was stopped from being covered in wood and, to put it simply, I am doing virtually nothing. One of you said I should expect it to turn yell...

Sorry for the late reply, I had to do schoolwork and have just started driving a car so I was focused on not crashing, but since school is over I now have time. I have cleaned the action of the gun and want to remove the rust, the only bronze brushes my dad has are barrel ones so I dont think that's...

My dad wants to remove some screws to get at the action of the gun to clean it, but I don't know if that is a good idea because of the guns age, I am worried that if the screws are removed, because of how old it is, it will damage the wood holding in the screws and you will be unable to put it back ...

What would you reccomend out of the two options for cleaning the barrel: phosphor bronze or nylon bore brush?

Actually, the barrel is fairly clean, spraying some Remington brite bore down the barrel and using what I am almost certian was a copper bore brush down up and down it 12 times and then spraying in some more of the brite bore stuff and rinsing and repeating a few times before running some fabric pat...

It seems you guys are right about it being captured for the japenese, as I took a closer look and discovered that on the other side of the stock there is some stuff that would imply that (picture attached). I dont know why the lettering is in english though. My dad owns enough guns that he is always...

Many years ago when my dad moved into this house (before that it was his dad's, or my grandpa's) and he knows that the gun did not belong to his dad so he has absolutely no clue on whose it was before. It is in poor condition and I would at least like to restore it to working condition and I figure ...