Has anyone got their T53 Mosins from JG?

[nick]

Just curious, what JG considers a "hand select". I just got two of them, and both are mixmasters. The one I got from Widener's earlier this year was numbers matching (also a hand select). The bores seem tight (good bullet test), the metal - decent, the stocks - the usual Chinese crap. So, what makes them hand selects? The rest are even worse, or what?

What was your experience?

[crya79]

Got mine yesterday. Happy with it. No pics now. Slick action, "nice" trigger, wood isn't great but not bad, mostly matching except bolt. Good stuff for $120.
Might go back and try a few without hand select to tell difference. I only ordered one hand select so can't compare...

[Crusader]

Good stuff for $120.

How sad that it has come to this. I miss the days of $120 buying you the nicest Mosin you've ever seen.

[kygen]

How sad that it has come to this. I miss the days of $120 buying you the nicest Mosin you've ever seen.

makes me wish I was born earlier

[crya79]

Yeah unfortunately when I was 18 I wasn't fully appreciative of the prices back in the late 90s. Time marches on though, and deals are all relative.

[nick]

How sad that it has come to this. I miss the days of $120 buying you the nicest Mosin you've ever seen.

Nothing lasts forever. Otherwise, we'd all have SVT-40-like collections

[Crusader]

Nothing lasts forever. Otherwise, we'd all have SVT-40-like collections

More like K98s, G43s, M1s, and 1903s haha

[kygen]

More like K98s, G43s, M1s, and 1903s haha

SVT 40 has an amazing collection.
so does bobby

[nick]

Hmm, another thing I didn't pay attention to. Both rifles came without cleaning rods. Did yours have cleaning rods?

[crya79]

Rodless. All the cool kids are doing it.

[vincewarde]

Anybody by one with "handselect"?

[nick]

Anybody by one with "handselect"?

I did. See the review above.