Did you ever go to the range....?

[AzShooter]

Mosin's seem to last forever. At one time I had 10 of them, competing with a friend to see how stupid both of us were for trying to dominate our collection with them.

Spray it with a good cleaner and the spring will probably start working the way it should. It's one of the best rifles made.

 

[Donn]

You run into the same bull excrement with car & truck people. It's tough, but you've got to let it go. Old saying, "Never argue with an idiot in public. People passing by won't know which one of you is the idiot."

 

[zeke]

Once had several people move discreetly away from me when shooting a Rem M81. They expressed their concern about shooting an antique, after watching the barrel recoil with a loud kerchunk. They weren't obnoxious about it, just didn't know how the rifle operated.

Occasionally receive comments about noise of short rifles am using, but advise them to use hearing protection.

 

[woodsltc]

A later unsolicited comment was that the Mosin wasn't a Russian rifle, it was a communist rifle. This was delivered with an extra dose of acid.

If I had been able to think fast enough .... I would have looked him in the eye and responded that this rifle had been "liberated" from communist oppression and should be now be honored for exercising it's newly won freedom.

Don

 

[Golddollar]

If I had been able to think fast enough .... I would have looked him in the eye and responded that this rifle had been "liberated" from communist oppression and should be now be honored for exercising it's newly won freedom.

Don

Because of my admiration for the Finnish people in standing up to the Soviets I made sure I got a marked capture piece.

 

[rwsmith]

Frank Hamer liked them.....

Once had several people move discreetly away from me when shooting a Rem M81. They expressed their concern about shooting an antique, after watching the barrel recoil with a loud kerchunk. They weren't obnoxious about it, just didn't know how the rifle operated.

Occasionally receive comments about noise of short rifles am using, but advise them to use hearing protection.

And his and at least one other helped fill Bonnie and Clyde's car full of holes. It was well thought of enough to be used as a special rifle in a LOT of roles, even though it didn't have a military contract and not very many were made. That is one INTERESTING mechanism. Ka-chunk away.

I could have a non-shooting Garand just to sit there and work the action, just to watch it operate.

 

[Dave from Pa]

In all my years as a competitive shooter, I never met a Marine who did not know what 6 o'clock hold meant.

 

[Abbynormal]

Unfortunately Mosins are more reliable than some of our Associates

Except for that one! LOL!

Think this through, a nation based on a bad theory, run by a dictator, without funds or resources, kept afloat only by Allied foreign aid. A despot who thinks nothing of the deaths of millions of his countrymen to effect ONLY his staying in power.

The Russian theory was to make the least weapon that would work that could and did blow up and kill/maim the user, but who cares, he has millions more peasants to push into the front lines. If one dies, the following millions of Russians would pick up the rifle and continue forward!

Stalin's priority was to build enough Russian armor to kill the Nazi Panzers, thus the good steel went to armor, not to build a safe, reliable battle rifle.

I've never shot a Nagant and never will. In my mind it is border line safe.

 

[rwsmith]

Mosin Nagents are strong as hell.....

Watch the video where the guys overload the rounds on purpose. They have to fill the case with pistol powder to actually damage it and it just bent the metal around the chamber. It's rugged and works like nobody's business

Last night I took a pair of needle nose pliers and gave the magazine spring a few small bends to put some strength back into it, loaded it to cycle the shells through and it worked just fine. Maybe I'll post a vid of firing 5 rounds through it in rapid succession and getting good hits on silhouette target at 100 yards with the V-notch sight. A spring goes weak after 70 years and people say the guns no good. I do question their judgment. There's nothing unsafe about a Mosin any more than a German Mauser is unsafe. It's smooth, reliable and very rugged.

Take something like a good old American Krag rifle. Now THAT is unsafe.

 

[500SNW]

Rather than making me mad, I often feel sorry for people like that. As a revolver guy, I'm quite used to taking a bashing from the high capacity polymer crowd. Again, I feel sorry for anyone so closed minded as them. They'll never see the beauty in anything other than what is programmed into them by consumerism, fads, trends etc. etc..

 

[S&WIowegan]

This thread reminds me of some experiences at the range. I spent considerable time at a public range when I first arrived in Iowa. I learned to go to the farthest bay to keep the kibitzers away. I did once have an Asian banger walk down-range to check his target while I was shooting. Once in a while a shooter would approach me and ask me to shoot his pistol to see if the problem was the gun or the shooter. I was a bit reluctant to do this because it can be ego crushing. One fellow became a very good shooter after he realized the gun was OK.

I now belong to a private club to moderate distractions. Recently a shooting buddy invited me to his club and I went because he was getting annoyed with me saying no thanks. It turned out Tuesday at noon was geezer convention time at the pistol range and very little shooting gets done. I'm sociable myself so I join right in. That's why I like to go alone.

 

[Doug627]

No matter where you go, there they are.