Decent find, 1935 hex mosin.

[derr12]

I happened across a neat Hex mosin locally, 1935 year. Wood was good+ but almost missing all the shellac. Barrel was dark and counterbored when inspected. Metal is 90%+.

To my surprise after cleaning, the bore is shiny, almost new looking (wonder why they counter-bored?) I hit the very blonde stock with a couple cotes of shellack, it's at least sealed now. The wierd thing is, the inside of the stock looks almost as pristine as my polish m44.

The bolt looks like it had seen rust at one point but was cleaned, either that or the tooling for the bolt was mega rough.

I paid 200 cash for this.

What are hex mosins going for these days, 250-ish? i think i got a pretty decent deal. Pictures tomorrow after work.

 

[bp2626]

Counterbore is an easy way to effectively "re-crown" a rifle. If the crown was damaged or the last bit of rifling it doesn't necessarily mean that the rest of the rifling was damaged.

With a refinished stock (Shellac was never actually used as a finish for Mosin rifles, that's just a myth because many refurbs received this for long term storage) and the counterbore I would say $200 is about right.

 

[derr12]

I had hoped i got a steal considering the rapid rise of svt-40 and sks prices. I had intended to resell as i already have 4 other mosins... but she's so pretty i think ill keep it.