The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I went to the range Saturday with 2 boxes of Tula. I fired one shot and the shell didn't eject. I'd worked on the ejector pin recently so I said "must have screwed it up." Left range, went home and realized: wrong ammo. .308. Boxes look the same.

You know, that could have gone bad, real bad.

Somebody was looking over me Saturday!

Sloooow down, what did the case look like afterwards.

You didn't notice the rimless cases as you loaded the rifle??

I didn't do anything like that yet but I do remember buying the first one I liked and that turned out to be the most expensive mistake I have ever made. Well maybe just a little bit bad not a lot! Bill

.308 shouldn't even be able to fire in a mosin, and if it somehow did the escaping gas around the case into the action should be significant I'd think.

Lapses like that can end a Mosin addiction. At one time I had three nearly identical P-63s. 9x18, .380 and .32acp. I stayed so concerned about mixing something up I got rid of two of them.

I haven't done anything stupid with a Mosin, but I put a 303 British round in a 30-06 when I was a kid. It failed to fire and has made me double check that I'm using the correct round every time now.

I feel much better about having all Mosins, a 9mm and a .22. No mixing them up!!

hokie1999 wrote:I went to the range Saturday with 2 boxes of Tula. I fired one shot and the shell didn't eject. I'd worked on the ejector pin recently so I said "must have screwed it up." Left range, went home and realized: wrong ammo. .308. Boxes look the same.

You know, that could have gone bad, real bad.

Somebody was looking over me Saturday!

Good lesson learned that you really really really need to pay attention. It's easy to become complacent and that's when stuff like this or way worse happens. One thing I'd be checking is to see if the projectile actually cleared the bore. Since the chamber couldn't seal properly the bullet might not have had the velocity to make it all the way out of the barrel.

And I thought sticking the bayonet into the ceiling was the dumbest thing I did

I think my biggest mistake that I made with a Mosin was picking up a 91/59 at a gun show and then setting it back down. It was gone later when I went back to get it.

I saw a picture of one o' them commie refurbished Mosins and figured buying just one wouldn't hurt.

Dumbest things? Sold some. I have a light fixture that has the glass covering that look like they go on an oil lamp. Broke one while walking through the house at shoulder arms.

Then there's this guy. [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgj8HjZg0U[/BBvideo]

I shot at a black bear in dim evening light..

Target was black..
Front sight was black..
Rear sight was black

Yeah I missed and feel shitty for doing so..

please post a pic of the casing!

dumbest thing i did. shooting at a 12" log and thinking it would stop the surplus ammo. nope, it went through, then through a fence post and split a rock and was deflected somwhere. all at 50 yards.

I put one back on the shelf once and said "i'll think about it".

jimpierce7 wrote:I feel much better about having all Mosins, a 9mm and a .22. No mixing them up!!

I love your signature.

Failed to adequately tighten the bands on an M91, which resulted in the handguard flying off at the first shot, and then "describing a graceful arc" to land in front of the firing line. Thank God the handguard wasn't damaged.

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