pe scope replica and serial number

[bayonet]

I'm considering sporterizing a Mosin but using a replica PE scope on a 1925 Mosin I currently have no interest in shooting. But, it seems like the mount screws onto the receiver and will cover the serial number. Is this going to be a problem?

[gun toting monkeyboy]

The thing is, there are only a limited number of 1925 Mosins. I wouldn't chop one up to make a replica. I would get one of the cheaper 91/30s if you had to be a bubba.

As for the serial number, I wouldn't stress that much about it, provided that you aren't damaging it. It will still be there.

-Mb

[Crusader]

I agree with MonkeyBoy - please don't do that to a 1925. Chop up a 1942-1944 if you have to chop up a rifle at all

[gun toting monkeyboy]

The rifles made between the end of the revolution and the beginning of standardization with the model 91/30 are pretty scarce. Not only did you have the civil war raging in the early 1920s, but you had the Communists trying to figure out how to get production levels back up. A 1925 gun would have been made during their first 5-year plan. Even if it was later brought up to 91/30 standards later, you will not find many guns from that era out there. Turner's is selling rearsenaled 91/30s that look like new, and are usually much later dated. If you absolutely have to make a sniper clone, do us all a favor and use one of those. It is the difference between a rifle that is one of a few tens of thousands versus one that is one of several million.

-Mb

[bayonet]

Thanks for the input. Maybe it's a better idea to get an already bubbaed gun as a base for this project.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

Thanks for the input. Maybe it's a better idea to get an already bubbaed gun as a base for this project.

It usually is. That way you are "rescuing" a gun. Not being a Bubba. And it isn't like there aren't a tone of cheap mosins out there to sue as a base. The other thing that you could look for, as they are fairly common, are "ex-sniper" mosins. They don't normally sell for that much more than a regular mosin. And in that case, you would be restoring it, not chopping it...

-Mb

[mosinnagantm9130]

Thanks for the input. Maybe it's a better idea to get an already bubbaed gun as a base for this project.

That's a much better idea.