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Question for you pistol people....

i see a lot of nagant pistols for sale in the states but I never see any for sale here.

are nagant pistols prhibited up here due to barrel length or are they just not common?
 
No, they are restricted. I bought my from Millarm store in Edmonton about a month ago. Had to pay $295. In USA they go around $80.
 
If you're interested check out TradeEx, they have a link at the top of the page. They also have reloading dies and bullets, no brass though. They are great guys to order from too, and have some pretty neat stuff to boot!
 
A lot of guys in the states use 32-20 cases resized in a 7.62 nagant die.

I think is a neat pistol by design but the trigger pull on the one I handled was ridiculous! I thought there had to be something wrong with the gun but after some research it's supposedly 20+lbs.
 
I bought mine a year or so ago from TradExCanada and found them very good to deal with. I found ammunition from Ellwood Epps (I think) from Dangerous Dave in the US, but I haven't shot it. They're a really interesting -- if overengineered -- design. Years ago I had one in the US that came with a .32 ACP clinder. Had to work at it a bit with a file, but finally got the .32 ACP cylinder to index properly and fire. For some strange reason the necessarily very long firing pin has always fascinated me.
 
As I remember, I got cartridges from Ellwood Epps, who brings them in from Dangerous Dave in the US. If you Google the cartridge, you might find other Canadian sources, but they are not found very easily. If you plan to shoot it more than fifty times, you might want to save the casings and invest in reloading gear.
 
Not Fiocchi. Dangerous Dave (I guess it's now called Old Western Scrounger) contracts with people who make up odd cartridges, and these were under the
"Dangerous Dave" name. They worked fine, but were pricey. If you can get them from Fiocchi in Canada you'd be better off. The hitch there is that Fiocchi Canada isn't always able to get what's in their catalog. It's always a problem when you're dealing with odd guns and calibers.
 
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slicknick said:
I remember reading somewhere on this site that .32 S&W Long ammo can be used without modifications in the cylinder
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2 things



1-.32 S&W Long might fit but it will seriously bulge & shoot mostly anywhere on target.

2-I will not recommend using any 32 in those revolver cause some people at CFC might thing that this revolver as been manufactured to use 32 cal & then declare it prohibited

not worth it.


My 2 cents

Larry"Corporal"Marcotte
 
Before it was an NKVD revolver, it was an Okhrana revolver.

I own two now, the first a 1916 Tula and the last one a beat up 1912 Tula I got for $90, but it needs some work between the hammer and trigger.

As for ammo, I havent gotten around to reloading for it yet, even though the ammo is desperately short in this country. I still have five boxes of Russian target stuff from the 80's that I shoot once in a blue moon.
 
Nyet Teapot, I haven't seen a box of the Fiocchi Nagant in Calgary for six years now. The only ones I have been able to locate were three or four at Milarm in Edmonton (that was in July, and before that he had one box which he was trying to sell for $100 or $2 a round :rolleyes:) a couple at the Fiocchi distributor out in Vancouver last year, and three at Ellwood Epps last year for about $60 a box.

Wolf Ammo was supposed to make new stuff released this year, but isn't. Not to mention I don't think there are any Canadian distributors anyhow.

Its bleak on the factory ammo front
 
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