The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Got to shoot this firearm today for the first time. We have had it in the shop for quite a long time but i never got around to it. Finally i decided to do a video on it and it's history today since we were going to be out shooting video for the businesses anyway. So i grabbed it off the shelf and threw it in the truck. I had already fell in love with the history and rugged look of the gun but after shooting it today i think i have to have it. It had very little recoil and surprisingly the trigger pull was nice. I had some problems with the cheap bulk ammo I brought to use in it but it runs fine with +P 9mm. It has one heck of a hard spring in it but i wonder if it will take lighter loads after i put a few hundred rounds threw it. Probably not but I can hope and i hope you enjoy the video.

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR9iZ33_kk[/BBvideo]

i would like to have one but i did not know how hard it would be to make it into a sbr .i still see parts kits on gun broker sometimes. it would look good with my pps43.

dou44 wrote:i would like to have one but i did not know how hard it would be to make it into a sbr .i still see parts kits on gun broker sometimes. it would look good with my pps43.

Centerfire Systems has parts kits as well as the complete rifle http://centerfiresystems.com/search.aspx?find=suomi and J&G has the complete rifle http://www.jgsales.com/-p-3889.html and I just noticed they dropped the price to $399.95. I see these a lot but never really put a lot of them up on guns-deals because I haven't seen a lot of interest in them.

Kit builds seemed to be all over the place in the 90's, Stens, FAL's, AK's, you name it, but then the kits got expensive.

In the video the Suomi semi auto has a lot of misfeeds as it is recocked many times may need a new mag?

I have on and I had a drum that I had I returned due to its inability to feed properly. The one I have has a very hard trigger pull but it functions fine even with the reloads that I use. I reload all my 9mm and it has cycled fine with any of them. It is a little to heavy for much off hand shooting though. The gun itself is very hefty and with a full mag, 36 rounds, makes the gun weight somewhere around 12lbs. I found it best fired from a rest position.

I .saw one at a gun show once but they don't seem to be very common. I don't know anyone who has one but they seem to be a good gun.12 lbs does seem to be heavy.is that with ammo? I did see them in J&G new catalog for $429.95 with one stick or one drum mag$39.95..They are new replica manufactured with new and surplus parts.

I believe they are new recievers and barrels and then surplus on the rest. They are HEAVY. The stocks are pure finnish looking.