Posted on 07/02/2010 11:56:10 AM PDT by JoeProBono
So I splurged and bought a 1939 Russian sniper rifle with sling, bayonet, ammo case, tool kit, etc. for $150 at a local gun shop.
The bolt sticks a bit, but I understand I must clean out the cosmoline, which is my next step. Found all kinds of advice on the subject on the Web. Any FReeper advice?
Its the only one I could find that shows the changes from the newer 91’s.
The sling mounts are different, the sights are different.
Then I found out mine was rearsenaled by the Finnish. and they counter bored the barrel.
Its just a neat bit of history
My fave bit of advice on these is that they are great for boat use in waters that dont allow guns.
They are so cheap you can lose them over board if need be.
I have never found one that operates smoothly when fired.
The bolt can work like butter even cycling un fired rounds but the moment you pop a round off, the bolt sticks.
I have always assumed its because the steel case expands and sticks to the chamber walls, but it does it with brass shells too.
Stuff you know if you have an AK. AR.Mosin Nagant
AK-——It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever.
AR—You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic teflon infused oil for cleaning.
MOSINE NAGANT —It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.
AK-——You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside.
AR— You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600m.
MOSINE NAGANT You can hit the farm from two counties over.
AK-——Cheap mags are fun to buy.
AR— Cheap mags melt.
MOSINE NAGANT What’s a mag?
AK-——Your safety can be heard 300m away.
AR— You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger.
MOSINE NAGANT What’s a safety?
AK-——Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling.
AR— Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system.
MOSINE NAGANT Your rifle has dog collars.
AK-——Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.
AR— Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.
MOSINE NAGANT Your bayonet is longer than your leg.
AK-——You can put a .30” hole through 12” of oak, if you can hit it.
AR— You can put one hole in a paper target at 100m with 30 rounds.
MOSINE NAGANT You can knock down everyone else’s target just from the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.
AK-——When out of ammo, your rifle will nominally pass as a club.
AR— When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great whiffle bat.
MOSINE NAGANT When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, battering ram, pike, boat oar, tent pole,car jack or firewood.
AK-——Recoil is manageable, even fun.
AR— What’s recoil?
MOSINE NAGANT Recoil often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.
AK-——Your sight adjustment goes to ‘10’, and you’ve never bothered moving it.
AR— Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.
MOSINE NAGANT Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you’ve actually tried it.
AK-——Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation’s most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.
AR— Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations most illiterate conscripts.
MOSINE NAGANT Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.
AK-—— Your rifle won some revolutions.
AR— Your rifle won the cold war.
MOSINE NAGANT Your rifle won a pole vault event.
AK-—— You paid $350.
AR— You paid $900.
MOSINE NAGANT You paid $59.95.
AK-—— You buy cheap ammo by the case.
AR— You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.
MOSINE NAGANT You dig your ammo out of a farmer’s field in Ukraine and it works just fine.
AK-—— You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted.
AR— Your foes laugh when you mount your bayonet.
MOSINE NAGANT You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving the comfort of your hole.
AK-—— Service life, 50 years.
AR— Service life, 40 years.
MOSINE NAGANT Service Life, 100 years.
AK-—— Its easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes.
AR— You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper.
MOSINE NAGANT You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54r.
AK-——You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick.
AR— You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it’s under warranty!
MOSINE NAGANT If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one.
AK-——You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to burst into flames.
AR— You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group.
MOSINE NAGANT You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2x4.
AK-——After a long day at the range you relax by watching “Red Dawn.”
AR— After a long day at the range you relax by watching “Blackhawk Down.”
MOSINE NAGANT After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor. THEN you watch “Enemy at the Gates.”
AK-——After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka.
AR— After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and Apple Pie.
MOSINE NAGANT After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob.
AK-—— You can accessorize your rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.
AR— Your rifle’s accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.
MOSINE NAGANT Your rifle’s accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but its buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.
AK-—— Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint.
AR— Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.
MOSINE NAGANT Your rifle’s finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga’s toe nails.
AK-—— Your wife tolerates your autographed, framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
AR Your wife tolerates your autographed, framed picture of Eugene Stoner.
MOSINE NAGANT You’re not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin.
AK-—— Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout “Wolverines!”
AR— Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room.
MOSINE NAGANT Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the yard to sleep in.
MOSINE NAGANT There you have it. In the end, it is clear to any open minded inquirer that the MOSINE NAGANT is the most superior weapon of all time, but the AR and the AK come out as a draw when compared side by side.
I ran across several boxes (5 or 6) of ammo some months ago....S&B and Wolf 7.62x54 rimmed. Maybe they are all soft point.....I'd have to go look.
True words LoL
There is just something about them LoL
I have some Barnaul soft point.
http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/enemy_gates/enemy_gates.htm
Vasily Zaitsev, a Russian sniper, supposedly achieved 40 “kills” against the Germans at Stalingrad within 10 days with his scoped M-N. You’ve got to have a different shaped bolt to mount a scope on one. My M-N is configured like the one in JPB’s first pic.
Clean it up, put it away and buy another rifle.
YOu read my mind....I’m getting my homebrew kit ready by sanitizing bottles right now. In the meantime, drinking cold Sam Adams!
Sniper Model
just rated # 1 AK by Gun Test, too
I have four. Just couldn’t stop buying them, they’re so much fun to shoot.
The dragoon version I have is the most accurate. Not like my Enfield, but smooth action, nice bore and not re-arsenalled.
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