My modded MOSIN w pics

[bruceflinch]

While I cannot condone Bubbaing, that is a very nice job and the rifle seems like it shoots well. Cheers!

Not every old rifle is worthy of "original" condition...


Nice job OP!

[MakeYaBootyBurn]

damn looks nice!!!

[Jdegid]

First, thanks for all the Input
I'm happy I didn't get totally flamed for desecrating the Mosin.

The gun was not the best of shape when I got it. I wish I had pics. It looked pretty banged up but the bore was excellent. The Gunsmith I took it to did an amazing job cleaning it up. By the way He is Mark Cooper in Riverside he is a Gunsmith and Engraver if anyone is interested I can PM his Phone number to you.

Too answer some of the comments :

Why do this?
Since most of the shooting I do is paper and the range I shoot at is between 100 and 200 yrds, this gun fits the bill perfectly. It would also make a good Hog rifle when the time arises.

Why did I choose 16" barrel...? umm Why not? it was meant to be a fun little project for me. Did I think I was building a long range tac driver...No

My brother has built basically the same configuration with a 18.5" barrel plus the brake and we haven't seen very much difference in accuracy at the same distance above. His does have a slight increase in FPS. I'm sure if we went out to a farther distance it would be noticeable but like I wrote above it's not what I intended the rifle to be. I can shoot this gun all day long no problem. I can't say that I can do that with my normal 91/30 without feeling like I had the crap beat out of me.

I do shoot reloads but I have shot milsurp as well through it. The only difference of course is the milsurp isn't as accurate and tends to creep but still holds a pretty decent grouping with the occasional flyers.


Did you put the bubbaed bolt in this for the pic, or did you have the bolt chromed? On the 91/30 The bolt is hand polished not chromed. The rest of the gun was so clean and the bolt looked like it had been through a sand storm. I started trying to clean it up and ended up just polishing the crap out of it.. LOL

Thanks again everyone

John

[paratroop]

that donked bolt looks pretty good.

[Army GI]

I'd want to shoot surplus ammo most of the time. I imagine even light ball has way too slow a powder to do well with a barrel that short.

You'd have to handload with some pretty fast rifle powder to get consistent results.

Crunch

What kind of results are we talking about? MOA? Minute of Nazi?

I had no problem shooting 300 yards with an M1A SOCOM which also has a 16" barrel. Difference between that and an M1 Garand with a much higher FPS round was almost nil.

[Mustang]

Great shooting...I have to believe the muzzle blast is impressive

[big103]

Nice accuracy on that thing.