Mosin Nagant. I like it.

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I just bought my first antique firearm, and I must admit....I like it. I got a 1942 Mosin Nagant, still in cosmoline. It's a wartime rifle and a bit rough but a few marks aside it is in really good shape. It is solid in every way with a bright bore. Defintely a mans gun. For the price it was definitely worth a piece of firearms history. I can't wait to shoot it.
 
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Clean it and shoot it!!

BTW, don't expect great accuracy from it. It's the epitome of the Russian/Soviet philosophy that goes like this:

Is Gun?? DA!!

Gun shoots?? DA!!

Fancy?? NYET!!

It's minute of Nazi Imperialist Pig, comrade!!!!!:p

Welcome to the milsurp addiction!!!
 
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AK47: It works though you have never cleaned it -- ever.
AR15: You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon infused oil for cleaning.
Mosin: It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.

AK47: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside.
AR15: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters.
Mosin: You can hit the farm from two counties over.

AK47: Cheap magazines are fun to buy.
AR15: Cheap magazines melt.
Mosin: What's a magazine?

AK47: Your safety can be heard from 300 meters away.
AR15: You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger.
Mosin: What's a safety?

AK47: Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling.
AR15: Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system.
Mosin: Your rifle has dog collars.

AK47: Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.
AR15: Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.
Mosin: Your bayonet is longer than your leg.

AK47: You can put a .30" hole through 12" of oak, if you can hit it.
AR15: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds.
Mosin: You can knock down everyone else's target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.

AK47: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.
AR15: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great wiffle bat.
Mosin: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.

AK47: Recoil is manageable, even fun.
AR15: What's recoil?
Mosin: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.

AK47: Your sight adjustment goes to "10", and you've never bothered moving it.
AR15: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.
Mosin: Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you've actually tried it.

AK47: Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation's most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.
AR15: Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations' most illiterate conscripts.
Mosin: Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.

AK47: Your rifle won some revolutions.
AR15: Your rifle won the Cold War.
Mosin: Your rifle won a pole vault event.

AK47: You paid $350.
AR15: You paid $900.
Mosin: You paid $59.95.

AK47: You buy cheap ammo by the case.
AR15: You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.
Mosin: You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in Ukraine and it works just fine.

AK47: You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted.
AR15: Your foes laugh when you mount your bayonet.
Mosin: You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving the comfort of your hole.

AK47: Service life, 50 years.
AR15: Service life, 40 years.
Mosin: Service life, 100 years, and counting.

AK47: It's easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes.
AR15: You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper.
Mosin: You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54R.

AK47: You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick.
AR15: You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith and it's under warranty!
Mosin: If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one.

AK47: You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to burst into flames.
AR15: You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group.
Mosin: You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2x4.

AK47: After a long day the range you relax by watching "Red Dawn".
AR15: After a long day at the range you relax by watching "Blackhawk Down".
Mosin: After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor.

AK47: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka.
AR15: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and apple pie.
Mosin: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob.

AK47: You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.
AR15: Your rifle's accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.
Mosin: Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but it's buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.

AK47: Your rifle's finish is varnish and paint.
AR15: Your rifle's finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.
Mosin: Your rifle's finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga's toe nails.

AK47: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
AR15: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene Stoner.
Mosin: You're not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin.

AK47: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout "Wolverines!"
AR15: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room.
Mosin: Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the yard to sleep in.
 
Last time I had my Mosin M44 at the range, the guy at the next bench commented "I feel more recoil from your rifle than mine, and you're five feet away..."

Even better, after he commented on the fireballs coming out of the muzzle, I asked if he wanted to give it a go. The look of fear in his eyes at the thought of firing it was worth every penny I paid for the thing.

(p.s. The recoil isn't bad so long as you're standing and can roll with it. Pad you're shoulder if you're going to bench shoot.)
 
Clean it and shoot it!!

BTW, don't expect great accuracy from it. It's the epitome of the Russian/Soviet philosophy that goes like this:

Is Gun?? DA!!

Gun shoots?? DA!!

Fancy?? NYET!!

It's minute of Nazi Imperialist Pig, comrade!!!!!:p

Welcome to the milsurp addiction!!!


Meanwhile in Ukraine:

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My bolt is really, really hard to open after firing. Is this normal? I am using copper washed steel cased ammo. I have squirted it with CLP but it didnt make a difference.
 
I just bought my first antique firearm, and I must admit....I like it. I got a 1942 Mosin Nagant, still in cosmoline. It's a wartime rifle and a bit rough but a few marks aside it is in really good shape. It is solid in every way with a bright bore. Defintely a mans gun. For the price it was definitely worth a piece of firearms history. I can't wait to shoot it.

I think there is only one type of person who didn't like them.

The nazis.
 
My bolt is really, really hard to open after firing. Is this normal? I am using copper washed steel cased ammo. I have squirted it with CLP but it didnt make a difference.

You've probably got a combination of cosmoline and laquer baked on in your chamber. What I did was to put an oversize brush (I think I used a 20gauge brass brush) on a piece of cleaning rod, chuck it into a drill, and run it into and out of the chamber a bit. Mine cycles flawlessly now, just as comrade Sergei Mosin intended.
 
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