Snubbie Mosin?

mg4201 said:
of course but that doesn't explain what you were trying to say.
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I thought it did. You mentioned the lack of modern technology leaving the old timers unable to verify theories. Smellie's post mentioned their technology that did just that leading to their final designs. Hence the Mosin family rifles being verification of the theory that 9 lbs of wood and steel can kill a fascist pig at exceptional range
 
smellie said:
@mg4201:

A lot of folks haven't heard of spark-gap photography, nor a bunch of other techniques. The old-timers didn't have the technology we have today, but they had brains and they were curious, so they worked with the technology they had.... and very often they came up with good results. The first chronogaph was a heavy weight on a hinge, with a pointer which the weight pushed. It dated from the late flintlock period. When you got the 'reading' of the height to which the pointer was pushed, you calculated the energy it took to push the weight that high and then worked out, mathematically, your muzzle velocity from that. A LOT of work for one figure, but it got results.

As to TBSA - 1909, the book itself is rgarded as more than a bit of a rarity. I am extremly fortunate in that I have a copy which was given to me by a friend just before his demise. It came from the estate of another good friend. I am scanning the entire book in order that it may become available to a new generation. There is a lot o good information in it...... and the photos show (amongst oher neat things) exactly how the spark-gap measurements were taken. Of course, we now have "Doc" Edgerton's strobes, which seem to have many neat uses (cleaning the hulls of nuclear subs) apart from taking pictures. Harold Edgerton was a neat guy: kept a 1903 Springfield in his lab at MIT! Check him out: very interesting character, changed the way we see the world.

Have fun!
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I hope you post a link to that book on CGN Smellie! If I'm ever in rural Manitoba, I'm stopping in for a coffee and a tour of your compound!
 
supernova said:
I thought it did. You mentioned the lack of modern technology leaving the old timers unable to verify theories. Smellie's post mentioned their technology that did just that leading to their final designs. Hence the Mosin family rifles being verification of the theory that 9 lbs of wood and steel can kill a fascist pig at exceptional range
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ok I get you now.
 
I am looking forward to seeing a range report on this creation of yours. Very curious to see how it preforms at 100yds. I would also like to see a still photo of the muzzle blast when firing too!
 
Hello,

Here is the full concept photo, just finished it:

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Regards,

Josh

Disclaimer: No Mosins were harmed in the making of this photo. It is a Photoshop concept only and will probably stay that way unless I find a compelling reason to make one.
 
I kind of like it; ugly like a bulldog.

I have a Mosin with a completely shot-out barrel, practically a smoothbore, that I have sitting in the corner of the safe, waiting for me to complete my machine shop to tool around with. I was going to take off the barrel and work a .45/70 into its place like those boys did elsewhere on the net, but keep the stock as close to original as possible.

This might be what it ends up looking like :D
 
Mosin in 45/70, I wouldn't mind seeing that:)
762Russian said:
I kind of like it; ugly like a bulldog.

I have a Mosin with a completely shot-out barrel, practically a smoothbore, that I have sitting in the corner of the safe, waiting for me to complete my machine shop to tool around with. I was going to take off the barrel and work a .45/70 into its place like those boys did elsewhere on the net, but keep the stock as close to original as possible.

This might be what it ends up looking like :D
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I saw an article about this in the latest issue of the Backwoodsman magazine. In the article they had created a mare's leg style rifle from a Mosin by cutting both the stock and the barrel. Sort of interesting but not all that practical I wouldn't think; however I didn't read the whole thing.
 
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