The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Noob here. Got interested in Mosin Nagants about three month ago and found this forum a great place to learn more about these wonderful rifles.
My wife picked up on this and bought me one for Christmas. Awesome wife!!!!
Apparently they were on sale for Black Friday at Big 5 for $145. When she got there only one was left and this is what she got without even looking at it in any detail in the store. Being the last one they had she just took it.

Let's see if I paid attention over the past few month and all the great posts on this forum:

1929 Izhevsk
Matching numbers, no cross outs, except for the bayonet.
Tula bolt
1929 tang date

The dovetail on the barrel is shorter than the length of the base of the rear sight leaving a gap at the end toward the shooter. I am thinking this would make it an ex-dragoon?

Everything was covered in thick grease including the stock. The stock has a couple of repair sections and a pretty sloppy shellac job if that is what is on it.

The plan is to get the grease cleaned of, re-oil the metal parts (mostly done) check head spec and go shoot it. In accordance with the rules of this forum I have no intention to do any kind of restoration or modification to her besides get the grease off to make her less slippery.
I did notice while just wiping off the grease with a soft cloth that some of the black painted areas on the rear sight and the front of the barrel were chipping off. No bare metal exposed and the remaining paint seems to have good adhesion. Is that common?

Any of your input would be greatly appreciated but I think she (wife) did great.

She did fine. Nice ex dragoon for Christmas. Cool.

Very good "First one". Hex receiver, ex-dragoon. I couldn't tell if it was pre war stock or post war. Nice blueing. How is the bore?

Bore looks good but I don't have anything to compare to.....yet.

Not counter bored. Rifling looks slightly less defined at the muzzle end bit still pretty strong. Got no ammo at home so I could not check with a bullet yet.

How do you tell the pre vs post war stocks?

See the slots in the stock were the straps for the sling go through? If they have a full metal ring pressed into the wood around the slot then they are late war, or post war, if there is no metal, or just a small strip of metal in or around the slot then it's wartime 1941-44, if the metal is held in place with small screws and is oval in shape around the hole then it was made before 1941.

Very nice first Mosin!

You have two keepers; the wife and the rifle. Very nice Christmas present.

Very nice!

Nice first mosin, ex dragoon. Cool gift.
My wife got me a Sino Soviet SKS.

Both slots have the screw type sling inserts.

Yea, early style

Very nice! You're wife is a keeper and so is the Mosin!

Sight unseen, cool. She did excellent. First Mosin or 10th it's a keeper for sure.

Excellent! Great rifle & great wife, congrats!

I must say your wife picked a realy nice Mosin for you Welcome to the RMNF. Have your wife vist the site were all family here. Judi and her Mosin's

Welcome to the forum. Very nice rifle.

Wow!! Great first Mosin! Or 20th for that matter. Let us know how it shoots.

Nice first Mosin. Your wife did real good. And, the rifle has the "correct" stock. A lot of the prewar rifles were fitted to post war stocks during refurbishment. This one was fitted with the correct type of prewar stock. Excellent. Very nice and clean barrel stampings. I like it a lot. Good find and I am surprised that this was the last rifle and no one had gobbled it up.

Oh, welcome. May this be the first of many Mosins. With such a supportive wife, you are both likely to be stricken with the dreaded Mosin disease - Mosinitis if not already. We are here to support you - "support" being defined as encouraging you to go out and buy more. Abstinence doesn't work.

Congrats. That is a great looking rifle. It has many things going for it. Ex dragoon, early model, hex receiver, nice bluing, probably original stock, clear markings. My guess it may have been the last. But they probably didn't let people go through the rifles. This one would have probably been one of the first one sold if it had been out on display.

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Very nice first Mosin!

Is that a spliced stock I see? Third from last pic in the opening thread...