Why Mosins?

[themosinator]

Or, even better, get one of the many that have already fallen to bubba.

EXACTLY!!...

...you could "rescue" an already Bubba'd Mosin!!...

[bruceflinch]

Lets see some other CalGuns members' Mosin Nagants!!...

...please post 'em!!...it'll help give the OP a REAL idea of why these cheap yet interesting rifles sell so well and get so addicting to collect!!...

If you go to the C&R Forum Gallery, You'll find a whole thread existing to the worship of Russian Firearm Technology.....just saying...

[mosinnagantm9130]

lol I can't believe you guys are freaking out about bubba and mosins.

Not to hate on mosins...there are so many of them out there I am sure you can buy a few and go to town on them.

There's a ton of bubba'd K98s (and most of the bubba'd K98s are matching), m1903s, m1917s, arisakas, carcanos, lee-enfields and others out there, mostly because there where so many in barrels at hardware stores for less than $20 they couldn't possibly all get bubba'd. Most did.

91/30s are just the latest surplus rifle to arrive in mass numbers, people always assume there is a near infinite supply out there, and then they dry up.

[themosinator]

If you go to the C&R Forum Gallery, You'll find a whole thread existing to the worship of Russian Firearm Technology.....just saying...

Thanks for the head's up!!...

...I spent so much time over on GunBoards this last year, that I forget to check in here locally too!!...duh!...

..I will definitely check it out!!...

[SKSer45]

There's a ton of bubba'd K98s (and most of the bubba'd K98s are matching), m1903s, m1917s, arisakas, carcanos, lee-enfields and others out there, mostly because there where so many in barrels at hardware stores for less than $20 they couldn't possibly all get bubba'd. Most did.

91/30s are just the latest surplus rifle to arrive in mass numbers, people always assume there is a near infinite supply out there, and then they dry up.

I know poor babies!! (sniff) I be damned if some one is going to bubba my 98k Mauser.

Damn if only we could go back in time and buy those rifles in a barrel I be a millionare :P lol.

however I think Mosins are different...so damn many of them (more than mausers, arisakas etc...) that I think they will be impossible to dry up even at 89.00 bucks a pop.

I dunno maybe I am just some freak and found the cure for mosinitis. I just don't see why need to have so many. I guess because you can.

I see the history, different factories, ex-dragoons, etc....but nope nothing for me to lose sleep over like I do with my mausers or SKS.

[mosinnagantm9130]

14,643,260 K98s built. Roughly 13,000,000-14,000,000 91/30s built.

See what I did there

[SKSer45]

14,643,260 K98s built. Roughly 13,000,000-14,000,000 91/30s built.

See what I did there

hmmm I sort of see what you did there....

I get the k98 number..but mosins? I thought something around 17 million where just in the USSR during WW2?

[Hecktic]

Cheap to buy, cheap to shoot & fun all around! That's why.

[mosinnagantm9130]

hmmm I sort of see what you did there....

I get the k98 number..but mosins? I thought something around 17 million where just in the USSR during WW2?

Nope, ~13,000,000-14,000,000 91/30s total.

If you count all M/Ns produced everywhere around the world from 1891-1970, you have around 34,000,000-37,000,000. (Although I wouldn't count the Finns in that total. They never built a receiver, so for every M/N they built, another was lost.)

I'd imagine if you counted all the mausers produced the world over from the same time frame you would be looking at similar numbers, if not more.

[SKSer45]

Nope, ~13,000,000-14,000,000 91/30s total.

If you count all M/Ns produced everywhere around the world from 1891-1970, you have around 34,000,000-37,000,000. (Although I wouldn't count the Finns in that total. They never built a receiver, so for every M/N they built, another was lost.)

I'd imagine if you counted all the mausers produced the world over from the same time frame you would be looking at similar numbers, if not more.

yes but do those M/n have factory codes and Nazi chickens!?

mmmm German Mausers....over m/n any day!

[RED VASQUEZ]

91/30s are just the latest surplus rifle to arrive in mass numbers, people always assume there is a near infinite supply out there, and then they dry up.

That's why I think everyone should buy two of them, one to modify into a precision bench rifle (leave the tacticool stuff for other rifles), and one to keep as is. If you can get your hands on m44s, m38s, Finns, and other harder to find variants more power to ya, but please leave these rifles in their original state.

[SKSer45]

think mosins will ever reach Mauser, Garand, 1903 levels as far as pricing?

[cruddymutt]

think mosins will ever reach Mauser, Garand, 1903 levels as far as pricing?

Certain Mosins have well surpassed the prices of those. Try to buy a Cossack, St Petersburg, or a M1907.

[RED VASQUEZ]

Let's hope not, I'd hate to see this turn into the "High Priced Collectible Rifle Forum".

[SKSer45]

Certain Mosins have well surpassed the prices of those. Try to buy a Cossack, St Petersburg, or a M1907.

ahh yes the freaks of the Mosins, as well as Mausers, Springfields etc...

but I mean as far as in General. Like back in the day Russian SKS were 75$ in a barrel and now the refurbs go for 450 and change.

Think the average joe Mosin ever get there?