How to load a Mosin 1891-30?

ANOTHER update on my loading from the chargers problem.....

IT'S FIXED!!!!!

(about phucking time, says I :p)

Now as to how the problem was solved....

I took the ejector out and started filing on it (I had left it in the rifle on the first filing attempt) and got about 1/16 an inch more clearance toward the rear. BTW, this part looked as though it was brand new, so I suspect it was replaced as part of the refurb process in Mother Russia.

After doing this, deburring the chargers, and ever so slightly polishing the sides of the ejector,my '39 Tula Mosin feeds the rounds off the charger into the magazine slicker than sh*t off a shiny shovel, using method #2 on the Youtube video posted earlier in this thread.

My thumb ain't even sore!!!:D

I'll be trying her out this Sunday at our local Service Rifle shoot. Should be lots of fun with old Tatiana (gotta name the old girl, you know. she's a fine complement to her younger sister Natalya - my SKS).

Does anyone know what the typical Soviet soldier carried for ready ammo in his/her belt pouches? I'm able to fit 3 loaded chargers (15 rounds) per pouch, so with 4 pouches there are 60 rounds at the ready. Is this what the average Soviet soldier did?
 
Talquin said:
I am sure he had vodka in one as well
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They called that one a "water flask"!!!!:p:p

After some serious searching on the web, I finally found out that the average Soviet rifleman in WWII armed with the Mosin-Nagant typically carried 2 double pouches, with 3 loaded chargers in each pouch, for a total of 60 rounds at the ready. Additional ammo was carried in the rucksack.

Apparently, the ammo came in cardboard boxes that had 3 loaded chargers in it, so all the rifleman had to do was tear the top off the boxes and stuff the boxes in his ammo pouch.
 
That was only during dire circumstances. IE Stalingrad.

That being said the Soviets had weird ways of doing things.

The Brits, Canucks, Yanks, and even the Jerries used submachine guns for NCO, offices and assault troops to add to the firepower of the standard rifleman squad, whereas the Soviets would field whole regiments armed solely with them.

Another example it that they would also form large groups of unarmed "undesirables" whose sole purpose was to charge through enemy mine fields before the main attack to detonate any mines that may be present. One of those their bullets or ours type situations.
 
Cdn303 said:
Another example it that they would also form large groups of unarmed "undesirables" whose sole purpose was to charge through enemy mine fields before the main attack to detonate any mines that may be present. One of those their bullets or ours type situations.
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It is rumored that during WWII this is how Stalin got rid of many political "opponents". Each division was supposed to have had one battalion-size "unit" that would be sent forward - unarmed - before the assault troops to force the Germans to reveal machine gun positions. The German machine gunners would open up on the unarmed men, thereby making it much easier for Soviet snipers to take out machine-gun crews.

I remember reading about this, but don't recall exactly where, so I can't specify a source (too many years and too many beers in between :p)
 
cantom said:
...did I not read somewhere that many Soviet soldiers did not even have a rifle...they were expected to pick one up from a fallen comrade.

True or false?
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sorta true...

In the movie "Enemy at the gates" it demonstrates the 2 soldiers (each with 5 rds) per rifle..."...When the one with the rifle gets shot...".as a younger fella I got to visit family in [what was then] East Germany/Berlin...there's a museum/memorial about Russian's side to the seize of Berlin. It shows a sub-gun(PPSH??) and a plaque describing 4 soldiers/rifle (translated by m'dad n' Grandfather).

I'd like to think it was a crock. No nation would wage a "contemporary war" in such fashion...My Grandparents' (and very young Dad)' perspectives beat Hollywood to hell...

Back to "How to load a Mosin 1891-30"...a respectable rifle!
 
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