Mosin Nagant

[Bobby Ricigliano]

i bought 1 and now have 6. what not to like. well made, ammo .18c a bullet. a mosin started my love of MILSERP rifles. i think of nothing else. i just picked up my first Mauser. fine rifle. but ammo is not cheep. my mosin sniper cost me over 600 dollars so they have more to offer than just a cheep price.

Indeed. It is only prohibitively priced ammo that keeps me away from Mausers and Garands. Having a few nice Mosins and a horde of cheap ammo just warms my frugal heart......

[Capybara]

Oh my gosh yes, get some Mosins. I paid $99.00 for mine and I am just as happy shooting it as I am shooting any of my 13 other guns. Just opening the spam cans of surplus ammo is an adventure, the Mosins just reek of cosmoline and history. Mine is a '42 Izhevsk, there is a chance that it saw action, killed some Nazis in the battle of Stalingrad, they are fun as hell to shoot, even to clean and take apart.

I am sorry I didn't get one sooner, I have known about them for a few decades but never bought one. That said, if there was no cheap milsurp ammo, I would not be nearly as effusive in my praise of the gun. It is the cheap factor, combined with the history, the many variants and the fact that the Russians used them to kick the Nazi's *** during WWII as well as the fact that rifle was used in hundreds of battles, wars and skirmishes.

Forget getting one, you will have several. I recommend buying a 91/30 first. Disassemble it, clean it, get to know the bolt mechanism and how it works, then take it shooting. A blast, literally. Once you are settled in with your first 91/30, then buy an M44 or an M38 carbine. More fun, more noise and bigger fireballs. Plus they somehow look cooler.

Mosins are great fun. Stock up on that ammo, it may not be be as cheap or as available much longer.

[Marcus von W.]

Stay away from Mosins!
They are cheap, dangerous guns...hell, in the 121 years since the Model 1891 was first introduced, they have probably killed as many millions of people from above the Arctic Circle, in Central/Eastern/Southern Europe, the sands of the Middle East, to the mountains and jungles of Asia and Africa.

Russian made Mosins are probably even cheaper and more dangerous than the ones made in Finnland, because everytime the Finns and Russians started shooting at each other, lots more Russians ended up dead. And each and every one of them Russians was shooting a Mosin. I tell ya, friends, them guns'll kill ya!

[Dont_Shoot_im_Chinese]

I own the shorter version (m38) and its a blast! GREAT BUY!

[Donkeypunch0420]

I'm up to 12 Mosin Nagant rifles and carbines. For a little more than hundred bucks, even if you hate it, it's not a huge loss. Plus you should have no problem selling it for about what you paid.

[DennisCA]

[QUOTE=Jyruiz;9462464]Worth it to me, but I only paid $89.00 for mine. It is cheap to shoot, but not very accurate.

I respectfully disagree with that statement!
True most mosin's won't shoot 1/4 inch groups at 100 yard but they're not bad. What do expect for a gun that was massed-produced and is over 50 years old?

[DennisCA]

Stay away from Mosins!
They are cheap, dangerous guns...hell, in the 121 years since the Model 1891 was first introduced, they have probably killed as many millions of people from above the Arctic Circle, in Central/Eastern/Southern Europe, the sands of the Middle East, to the mountains and jungles of Asia and Africa.

Russian made Mosins are probably even cheaper and more dangerous than the ones made in Finnland, because everytime the Finns and Russians started shooting at each other, lots more Russians ended up dead. And each and every one of them Russians was shooting a Mosin. I tell ya, friends, them guns'll kill ya!

Sounds like anti-mosin propaganda!