My first rifle (M91/30)

TimeAttack said:
Some people take off a link of the firing pin spring to ease the tension but I'm gonna shoot like this and just get used to how the rifle operates.
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Thk
Good on you. I consider myself a purist. I shoot all my rifles as they would have been issued. Sometime I get pi$$ed off at people getting a new to them milsurp and immediatly changing all kind of bits on it, hoping for a 0.5MOA rifle. Most of the time I'll just close the thread and shake my head. But every once and a while there are glimmers of hope. Right there you became one of those glimmers.

A good invesment would be a set of snap caps and a pair of grip strength trainers. I hear people complaining about the heavy trigger pull all the time, but 5 minutes a day/3 days a week doing grip training and I don't even notice it. Then go and practice with the snap caps. Set a soup can on end across the room and pactice shouldering the rifle and sighting in on the can and cycling the bolt.
 
If you give the cocking ramps a good polishing and polish all the places where the peices of the bolt rub together you will be shocked at how smooth the rifle will function,mine cycles like a greased weasel.
 
I'm all for being purist, but there are times when a little tuning up can't hurt and also make the time at the range more enjoyable. Trigger tuneups and sight mods which are reversible are fine by me. Why put up with a 12lb gritty trigger when you could have a smooth 3lb one? The Finns certainly would do this.

BTW, I'm all for reversing Ex-Snipers to full again even though the original scope is long gone. In most cases the original scope would have been replaced somewhere in the battlefield during it's time.

.5 MOA? I'd never bother to try for that in a milsurp because they are just fun rifles to shoot. Mind you some Swedes and Swiss K31's have come close. I have hunting and target rifles that will do better than .5 MOA and put my money into them for that reason.
YMMV
 
The trigger is one part of the rifle I hear about all the time but I find it to be amazing, very light and I know exactly when it's going to break.

I won't be changing anything about the trigger, not because I'm a purist but just because it's very good already.
 
Sometimes you get lucky and get a Mosin with a nice trigger. I had an M44 like that a decade ago. My recent '42 Izzy 91/30 was 10lbs and gritty? The Izzy responded well to a trigger job. Good to go now. For $100 and handloads that rifle will shoot 2 MOA with iron sights.
I have a nice Tula 91/30 I bought from Weimajack coming soon. We'll see what that trigger does.
 
Nice I just got my m91/30 today. Its sweet, didn't realise that it was as long as it is, especially with the bayonet on! Makes my Enfield look like a midget!
Now to get ammo and off to the range!
 
I've heard that the Russians trained with the Bayonets on the majority of the time, so this maybe why the mosin shoots to the right...
 
Ready said:
I've heard that the Russians trained with the Bayonets on the majority of the time, so this maybe why the mosin shoots to the right...
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My understanding is that the bayonet was only to be removed for storage. So essentialy the bayonet was always on.
 
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