Mosin Nagant AR Stock project

[velocity101]

Hey all!

Wanted to share my Nagant AR Stock project. I wanted an aftermarket stock which could be further customized by the user more than just a paint job--so designed a stock that would allow the attachment of any of the hundreds of standard AR-15 buttstocks and pistol grips available on the market; giving any given Nagant AR Stock a unique look.

Below are a couple quick CAD screencaps.




A rough prototype with a standard AR telescopic buttstock attached.


With the Nagant bolted on.

[Capybara]

From an engineering standpoint, very interesting. From a practical standpoint, why put a one hundred year old, five round bolt action battle rifle into a space age looking, modern stock? Seems like putting a Yugo into a fiberglass kit car Porsche. You could, but why?

[velocity101]

From an engineering standpoint, very interesting. From a practical standpoint, why put a one hundred year old, five round bolt action battle rifle into a space age looking, modern stock? Seems like putting a Yugo into a fiberglass kit car Porsche. You could, but why?

I appreciate and respect your perspective but the reason (for me) is because I can get a modern-looking rifle which fires fairly abundant and inexpensive ammunition for a few hundred dollars as opposed to spending a couple thousand dollars on off-the-shelf modern rifles. I own quite a few Nagants of various models and they're all fairly accurate (I don't shoot over a couple hundred yards any way)--so why not customize and update a couple of them to give them a new life

[vincewarde]

Well, all bolt action rifles go back to the same era. It would be interesting to see what could be done with a Mosin by giving the original barreled action every advantage possible. My guess is that if you changed out or refined the trigger, free floated the barrel and cut and crowned it to about 22" it might surprise most people - provided you took the time to work up some good handloads.

Another reason to do this kind of a mod would be to simply have a powerful plinker with ergonomics you really like.

[kel-tec-innovations]

Not bad. Maybe set up the stock to accept the Arch Angel Mosin Magazines.

[FC1]

I wouldn't use it, but this forum is full of people that like their mosins original. Having said that, there is a market for that and it's a genius idea. Put it up on the net and see what happens.

[RANCID 518th]

From an engineering standpoint, very interesting. From a practical standpoint, why put a one hundred year old, five round bolt action battle rifle into a space age looking, modern stock? Seems like putting a Yugo into a fiberglass kit car Porsche. You could, but why?

Why not.

[emcon5]

Why not.

Because you can get a Savage/Stevens/Ruger that is already set up for a scope (without that flying buttress thing), that will shoot lazy circles around it.

Yeah, surplus ammo is cheap, but from an accuracy standpoint it is not all that great. New commercial 7.62 is not that much more expensive, and will shoot much better, is generally non-corrosive.