Question About Russian Nagant Revolvers

[BSA1]

In a word; BANIC!

During last years feeding frenzy folks bought up everything will little thought about how practical it was and availability of ammo for it.

I'm sorry that I have been away for a while. Seems my employer wanted overtime and I wanted a paycheck.

I can't claim credit for the term "Banic" as I am sure others have used it but it is intended as a combination of the anti-gun policies of the Obama Administration and the lack of trust in the Government by many citizens.

Thank you for the kind words.

 

[ralph7]

I had one that was single action only and paid around $115 for it awhile back. It had the longest firing pin on a hammer I have ever seen.
I tried to like it, but I failed.
It's been gone for over a year now, and I don't miss the thing.

 

[murphydog]

There were/are drop-in cylinders for these in .32 ACP that work great - haven't shot mine with the original ammo/cylinder yet. SA pull is ok and the DA pull feels like you are pulling the barrel back with your index finger to meet the cylinder .

 

[BigBill]

Correction the Swedish and Swiss revolvers are older than the Russian nagant. Did the Russians copy them? The Russian nagant is 1895 while the Swede and Swiss revolvers are in the 1880's think.

Swedish revolver was issued in 1887. Not a nagant.

Swiss revolver was 1882 not a nagant.

Russian nagant revolver was 1895.

The Swedish and Swiss revolvers are 7,5mm which makes them 30cal. These assembled bullets are not the same.

The Swiss k31 rifle in 7,5mm Swiss is 7,5 x 55, 30cal bullet while the French MAS rifles use the 7,5mm French is 7,5 x 54 it's 30cal. Too. Again both rounds are not the exact same. The MAS rifles are the m36,
M51, m45, m49, & m49/56 etc.

 

[Cyrano]

Nagant, in Belgium, designed the Swedish and Swiss revolvers. Later Nagant produced an improved design, with the gas check feature; it was adopted by Russia, and most of them were built in Russia. Russia made two designs: a single action only for NCOs and a double action for officers. I think the single actions are scarce.

Still later Nagant designed a gas check revolver with a swing-out cylinder, but I don't think anyone adopted it.

Nagant went bankrupt in the 1920s; Poland bought the tooling for the Russian design from Nagant and produced some revolvers for the Polish military before the VIS 35 was adopted. The Polish Nagants are rare.

 

[LVSteve]

There were/are drop-in cylinders for these in .32 ACP that work great - haven't shot mine with the original ammo/cylinder yet. SA pull is ok and the DA pull feels like you are pulling the barrel back with your index finger to meet the cylinder .

From what I recall the .32 replacement cylinders don't always work. It seems there were subtle changes in the Nagant build standard over the decades.

 

[BigBill]

There was some Russian manufactured .762 nagant ammo by the case and by the box around somewhere. It was affordable but so was the 7.62 x 25 tokarev ammO too.