I've seen guys get excellent results by scoring/marking the barrel with a tube cutter, and cutting with a hacksaw just past the score mark. Then, carefully file down to the score mark. It was recrowned using a small fine round stone (the ones that look like a soup bowl) on a drill press. I saw a few 303's done that way, and have a 6.5X55 that was done like that. They all shot fine. Plenty good enough for a hunting rifle. Yes, you are taking a chance, and you could ruin a $129 gun. Have you checked with a company like Tradex for a M44 action/barrel? They were dirt cheap at one time.
Cutting down Mosin 91/30
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I cut my barrel down as nothing I could do to that old Mossin would improve accuracy. It was either counterbore about 4" or cut the barrel back to 18.75 re crown and turn it into a half decent looking and performing sporter. It was useless as it was and now is an ok shooter. Not 1. MOA but decent enough to plink with at around 3 1/2" at 100 until the barrel gets hot after 15 rounds. Then it opens up like a blunderbuss 
Unlikely. Its his property, he can certainly do whatever he wants with it. But don't expect everyone to clap when someone decides to inflict bubba upon a wonderful piece of history, no matter how common they might be. My respectful personal opinion. Given this is a discussion forum, you might as well get used to it.
Yup Pipe cutter and hack saw, brass screw crown, Then bored out a No4 front sight base to fit the .653 dia barrel.
Yeah its like 11mm to just under 13mm dovetail. You might find that it wont be square. Because its a tapered dovetail.
their is plenty of it, lets sporter it ! That remember me the story of the lee enfield ! And now we are all saying who is the re..rd who did that ?!?! No problem they were 25$ 40 years ago and now it worth 600$ a pieces , please don t do the same mistake
this !!!
Like the guy that wants 1600$ for his Mosin because he has every accessory you can buy for a Mosin? Because it has a archangel stock, and a muzzle brake, cheap scout mount and scope ETC But nope dont cut a mosin.
SKS and mosins are the only guns that you can buy for less ( under 200$ ), then put them in a cheap plastic stocks and ask a fortune and some sucker will buy them.
SKS and mosins are the only guns that you can buy for less ( under 200$ ), then put them in a cheap plastic stocks and ask a fortune and some sucker will buy them.
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All these gun owners, that ##### and whine about the gov't telling them what they can and can't do with their guns. And now they turn around and try to tell somebody else what they can't do with their gun. Oh the irony.
If a chop turns a dust collector into a rifle that gets used, well then pass me the hacksaw.
If a chop turns a dust collector into a rifle that gets used, well then pass me the hacksaw.
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Only reason stock LEs fetch big dollar is that so many were sporterized. Every cut Mosin makes the stock safe queens more valuable. As I see it anyway.
