"Collectors Forum" - All Mosin Nagant are discussed here. Also the Russian and "Finnish capture" SVT38 and SVT40. This is an excellent place for new Mosin owners to ask questions. We have some of the best experts here looking forward to your questions. If you post a Mosin sniper rifle here, we may or may not move it to the sniper forum.
Preservation forum, please no altered military surplus rifles or discussions on altering in this forum. No sportsters. Please read the rules at the top of each forum
Happy New Year!
I just picked up my brand new 70 year old rifle yesterday, and since my wife was at work and the kids were sleeping I spent my New Year's eve cleaning off the Cosmoline.
From what I've learned thanks to this forum is it's a 1942 Izhevsk?
It was imported by Century arms and cost me $100.
Here's a few pics of my new(old) toy....................
...............sorry the pictures are a bit random, not sure what you guys would like to of it.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
"Fast is fine, But accuracy is everything" Wyatt Earp
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Adolph Hitler – 1933
Nice one acer, beautiful stock, very nice bolt, and rough as a cob receiver-just the way the wartime production guns were. It is the best example of wartime receiver I have ever seen. Outstanding! I bet she shoots great!
Ya gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?~ Josey Wales
You will find out soon that it is the best $100 ever spent. She looks like a nice one to me. I think it is a sxpedited reciever that they spent a little more time finishing it.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
Welcome to the forum, nice wartime receiver on that '42
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Thanks everyone.
Hopefully it will be a good shooting rifle, provided that I actually put the gun together correctly after I stripped and cleaned it.
I think I got it right but since it's my first time with this particular firearm I still a little nervous to pull it's trigger the first time.
Nice looking gun, love the stock on it! As far as putting it together, did you check the firing pin length? There are several YouTube videos that show how to do it.
Welcome aboard and tanks for shaing that nice rifle
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
identify their corporate sponsors."
"When I die, I want to be facing my enemies surrounded by their dead bodies and piles of spent brass"
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
Fred_G wrote:Nice looking gun, love the stock on it! As far as putting it together, did you check the firing pin length? There are several YouTube videos that show how to do it.
Thanks for the tip.
Glad I didn't shoot it yet because it was a little long.
This is the second time this forum has saved me some grief.
First I learned about the pin holding the trigger can fall out when the receiver is removed from the stock, I did it over the box the rifle came in and it saved me from loosing it.
Now this tip might have saved me some serious injury or death.
Thanks again!
I like to research things as much as I can before I try them and this forum has been quite valuable to me so far.
Nice rifle Ace. If you have any trouble in reassembly just box her up and send it to me and I will reassemble it and field test it for free. Always willing to help.
acerpower.. as a new owner myself first thing i did was read everything i could on my new best friend.... firing pin length, headspace, and zeroing ( sighting in)etc etc... i am familiar with modern weapons and how they function, but not something as badass as this... if the firing pin pierces the primer too deeply you can get gas from the propellent back into your face.. headspace is just as vitally important as well. if either of these goes bad for.. things will go bad for you... read, read, read... ask ask ask.. that how a newbie like me learned..and its frickin' fun... history is cool and so are the weapons they used..... these guys are great here and will share the knowledge the have freely... happy hunting and welcome home! do not shoot it if you are not 100% sure you are not going to maim yourself... as for me , i feel 100 frickin' % totally safe to fire my weapon now... do your homework and you'll be just fine.... cheers from a newbie.
nice rifle.
