The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Magnificent! What a lovely Mosin with fantastic history! You are quite a good writer. Thank you!

Thank you fellow forum members for your comments! Your thought have made me even more excited about getting this rifle. I hadn't considered that it might be a SCW or Finn capture rifle. I promise to post more pictures as soon as it get this Tula in my hands.

Sorry about that! I also wonder if it might be a SCW rifle as well. I will be checking the rifle out carefully when I finally get it next month.

I already have a lovely Tula 1936 hex receiver refurb rifle that is my favorite 91/30. Once I heard that in that year both hex and round receiver were made I wanted to have a '36 Tula round receiver to go with it. I have been looking for one for a couple of months and hadn't found a good one - until...

I finally had a chance to remove the action of my latest acquisition - a 1925 Tula 5-Line and found that there was a quite a bit of rust under the barrel, on the top of the magazine/trigger guard, and the front hand guard retaining ring. Are there suggestions on a suitable removal procedure for rust...

The time frame was actually 1942-1943!

I just read in Lapin's book on the Mosin-Nagant that once the Germans got too close to the Tula Arsenal the Soviets broke down the equipment and moved it to the Izhevsk Arsenal. The real surprise to me was once they built the equipment back up they continued to make rifles bearing the Tula "Sta...

It is quite a coincidence that I bought a 1934 Izhevsk that had that same stock/hand guard mismatch as yours. What I learned was that such a mismatch prevented the rear hand guard retaining ring having a solid hold. The first time I went shooting with this rifle that ring released and the hand guard...

What a fantastic Mosin! Despite the cracked stock it is still a diamond!! I would be very proud to own it.

The firing pin gauge slash screw driver works great. Use the last slot in the gauge to go over the tooth in the band and push the tool into the band. This works well on all of mine. :D An even more elegant way of doing it. Only requires one tool, and it's one every Mosin owner should have any way. ...

This is what I use, it expands it enough. A small screw driver a piece of wood and a external retaining ring tool. Sometimes you need the screwdriver to open them up a little more to get the tool on, when taking them off you use the wood to expand them enough to get the screwdriver on then the tool...

Wow! That was too close for comfort, especially if you were sitting down at the time! I hope that you recover quickly.

Whenever I remove the hand guard retention rings in order to remove the action from the stock I haven't been able to avoid scraping the shellac off of either the stock or the hand guard. Can anyone recommend a way to avoid this damage?

Does any forum member have a 1936 Tula Round Receiver 91/30? I am looking to acquire one and wonder how rare they are.

Thank you for saving that beautiful piece of history!

Beautiful 1916 rifle! Thanks for making the video to provide a little history about this classic piece. I hope that I someday have a chance to get one!

BuckeyeSgt wrote:So where is the rifle, does it happen to be a DDR as well?

The rifle that it came with is a 1936 Tula Hex 91/30 that was "featured" in a post about a "perfect" 36 last week. No, unfortunately, it is not a DDR. It would be so cool if it was.

Thank you for the overwhelming firestorm response to my post! I had no idea that this strap would be so special. When I first saw it in the plastic bag with the cartridge pouch, cleaning kit, and oil bottle I thought that the exporter just stuck an imitation strap of the green fabric strap. Was I ev...

The bayonets that I have so far that don't match my rifles are:
7554
Backwards N K1592
XH1119
79098 with 981 Crossed out
75088

I had a chance today to open up the accessory pack of my latest 91/30 imported by Century Arms International only to find that the shoulder strap was leather! All of the previous acquisitions included olive drab fabric shoulder straps plus all of the pictures that I have seen had the same type. Of t...