are 180 $ mosin suppose to be that bad :s?

Op: You got a mosin with and original war time issue stock. It was actually in such good shape, they left it on, instead of tossing on a post war refurb one. How much of the rest of the rifle actually matches? What you have may be more sought after, not less. Don't judge a book by a ratty looking cover. Besides, as everyone here is saying, easy fix, if the bore is clean...
 
So first of this is IF I find that my mosin is not matching and is nothing special I might consider this...

I was thinking of buying one from west rifle and maiby in the near future modernize this one, I was thinking red dot stock refurbish maybe duracoat or some kind of paint and. This is the question for you guy's, have the rifle cut to 27" overall lenght. I was thinking a gunsmith cutting the barrel to 9" , recrowning it and treaded for a break?

That sbould make for a handi little rifle for 0-100 yard.now nothing is done and its less then 50/50 its just something that cross my mind so no need to flame;)
 
DAR 701 said:
Barrel can not get cut below 18"... the 26.5" is for factory made lengths not cut jobs.
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Aww you are right I forgot, and to say I was explaining this about shotguns to my buddy last weekend. Guess I got carried away with my thoughts :p
 
After one range session and 20 round and 2 through barrel cleaning this is what the bore looks like.

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I am also of the mindset to examine first before buying... there are so many sweet looking rifles for sale on EE... but if you can't inspect them, you just never know what you're getting.
 
For $180? IMO that's garbage. The wood will be a BIT flaky and the bore LIGHTly pitted but good rifling and all #'s matching for $180 (no ' forced match' on bolt either). Perhaps some rust under the wood too. I picked up a $129 mosin from a dealer in April that's miles better than that!!! Based on the wood damage alone, if everything else is great I'd buy yours for $149 max.
 
I have a 180 mosin that is not as bad as that but it's close to it. It's my beater rifle I bought another one for 200 that's night and day better but it's a war time production so they cheaped out and cut corners on it and you can tell now to get a prewar one and be done with it...

I recommend buying them in person if you can...

the 180 gun was just the stock everything else was perfect on it... so sand and refinish the stock done...


The wartime gun looks mint but the barrel looks nice and shinny as well but if you look at the muzzle you can see it's very off center and it makes you go what the... But that's the 1 I picked so.... It's what I wanted 1 beater 1 historic one...
 
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handofzeus said:
For $180? IMO that's garbage. The wood will be a BIT flaky and the bore LIGHTly pitted but good rifling and all #'s matching for $180 (no ' forced match' on bolt either). Perhaps some rust under the wood too. I picked up a $129 mosin from a dealer in April that's miles better than that!!! Based on the wood damage alone, if everything else is great I'd buy yours for $149 max.
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Mine if I had seen it in person for 100 $ I would have left it there....
 
I bought one of the $100 (Or $110?) M/N rifles. By the time it was delivered it cost more like $160+. It was awful and I had to find and buy parts to repair it. The grooves were and are dark brown. It was a battlefield pick up and the whole rifle seems to have been rusted to a rough, pebbled surface then re-blued over during refurb. I would rather not have owned it but I was stuck with it, no help from the vendor with parts to repair.

On the other hand I bought one from Tradex that was spectacular and exactly what I had asked for. Its delivered cost was $228 and worth every penny plus more.

So my conclusions are that I am not keen on buying sight unseen but if you do, buy from someone with a very good reputation.
 
rally guy said:
After one range session and 20 round and 2 through barrel cleaning this is what the bore looks like.

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The bore looks good. Clean it with wipe-out and eventually it will shine like new.

It took me a week to clean out the copper fouling from my SVT 40 but it was worth the effort.
 
Mark Williams said:
The bore looks good. Clean it with wipe-out and eventually it will shine like new.

It took me a week to clean out the copper fouling from my SVT 40 but it was worth the effort.
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I had never spent so much time on a bore befor that one, mh svt bore is so clean and shiny compare to that one... on a side note ; out of all my rifle my m14 has the shiniest borebout of all my rifle.
 
My svt bore was dull like the bore on your mosin, it was just copper fouling.

BTW how did you manage to get a clear pic like that ?
 
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