The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I have always been against altering any piece of history but if it is acquired in that condition then it is what it is. In this case I purchased a stripped Remington M91 receiver. Despite being able to put a reproduction M91 together, is there any other rifle I could make ? As noted on the site the threads are 16 tpi and I have a 1919A4 machine gun bbl that is 16 tpi but apparently thread pitch is different as they don't fit snug. I don't imagine finding a 30-06 bannerman bolt would be to terribly difficult. But of course with my skills it would probably turn into a Houston Khyber Pass frankenrifle. Also the consequences could be deadly on my end too.
Any ideas out there?

I'd use it for a paperweight.

It sounds like more trouble than just buying another shooter.

Yea that is pretty much what I was thinking. Terribly cost prohibitive and not to mention the time to get it right. Thanks y'all !

Evil Eddy 1B wrote:Yea that is pretty much what I was thinking. Terribly cost prohibitive and not to mention the time to get it right. Thanks y'all !

Barrel, $99.00
Stock set, $ 79
Bolt, $99.00
Magazine , $35.00
Trigger group, $95.00
OK we are about $425 for non matching.....

That would look cool sitting on a shelf just the way it is. You don't see many Mosin receivers divorced from the barrel like that. Cost prohibitive to make a rifle out of it.

Careful now. Some crusty old Finnish armorer might bust your door down and take that to fix up a nice M39 for target shooting!

Evil Eddy 1B wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 8:49 am I don't imagine finding a 30-06 bannerman bolt would be to terribly difficult.

In your dreams. It's getting harder and harder to find a Bannerman (complete) these days. not to mention a bolt. I have never seen a Bannerman bolt for sale. Not to mention the costs of machining that barrel to work with 30-06.

What you have is parts someone might buy from you because they are desperate and have a need for them.

Darryl

I'm actually going through this now, I found a really nice round receiver 91/30 with a fantastic bore, but someone had chopped it to 23" and put it in a sporter stock with one of those drop into rear sight scout mounts. I got it for real cheap thinking, oh I can at least turn this into a 91/59 style that I don't feel bad about shooting. Well finding a m38 front sight base has been impossible. So I looked at the m27 front sight set up, turns out it's 3 pieces. Piece 1 (winged base) is easy to find, piece 3 (sight blade) is easy to find, piece 2 (dovetail base for blade) non-existent. So I looked to the m39, i can find the sight blade and base, the adjustment screws are impossible. So I'm at a loss as to what to do. I will not put anything on it that wasn't on a Mosin at some point, but the weirdest little parts are missing from the internet, so good luck, 90% of it will be fairly easy, 10% impossible.

This is way out of the scope of this forum. This is a preservation forum. The consensus of the earlier answers was leave them as parts. I would imagine that advice still stands. I still think that receiver would be a cool paper weight.