Bull-pup Mosin?

[lawrencewendall]

Ok. Here's my saga of sportorizing a Mosin (heresy, I know). I wanted a project deer rifle for my adult son. I've been looking at the ballistics, durability, flame throwing capability and decided to spoterize a mosin for him for Christmas. I have a hungarian refurb that is too pristine to mess with. I figured for a $80 Mosin and another $70 stock with a el cheapo scope, he would have a decent rifle. I made the mistake of letting him pick out the stock. He ended up choosing a bull-pup stock from Center Balance Rifle Platform Systems (www.cbrps.com). The price was more than I was expecting ($270 for the base, $80 extra to make it entirely an evil black rifle and then $17 shipping) Talk about polishing a turd. But it's what my son wanted and it was a gift so who am I to bitch.
I order the stock in Oct 10 with an anticipated delivery of Dec 10. When Dec rolled around with no delivery, I called Bernie from CBRPS. He was having issues with his supplier and had been overloaded with recent orders for some unexplained reason. He would get it out to me as soon as possible. Mid Jan 11, I received noticed that it was ready to be shipped. I paid via paypal then told my son to order the mosin. He had researched them a bit and came to the conclusion that he wanted a hex receiver 'cause supposedly they were more accurate. Aim surplus has the hexes for $79 with an additional $10 for handpicked. He called Aim and learned that the hand picked only referred to the exterior. They do not check the bores but was assured they were all firers.

Here's the stock

The AIM mosin

Just need to clean the cosmo off and I will start the conversion. I'll keep you posted on the results.

Lordy, Lordy! look what else was in the order. Wonder how that got there??

 

[mrbule]

I guess all you need is a laser and flashlight attachment for the revolver.
Nah. Keep us updated though.

 

[h2u]

We purists love the non-permanent mods
Look forward to the pictures.

 

[Markp]

No offense, because it will be fun to see the bullpup mosin, but we're talking $80 for a mosin $270 for a stock $80 for it in all black + 70 for a scope, that's $500!

For $500, he could have recently got picture 1, without the scope but with the diopter sights! Or he could have gotten a $300 SKS and a $200 bullpup kit from SG Works for a total of $500 and had picture 2 (not regulated with the factory mag).

Still a Mosin Bullpup is a cool idea.

 

[OLM-Medic]

Wow I'm honestly interested in seeing what this is like.

 

[GoufCustom]

Agreed, I want to see this. But really WTF, for $600 you could have bought a bottom of the line AR, and it would have been better.


Poor Mosin.



But, to each his own, free will is a good thing.

 

[drewhall]

Can't wait to see this...

 

[hvymax]

Sounds like something entirely different which is what makes it interesting. There are thousands of Mosins lurking in members safes that if you threw them in a pile it would take years to tell them apart.

 

[kohburn]

i'm really curious how it shoots with the bull pup stock.
I wouldn't mind doing that but i can't get myself to spend that kind of money.

I'm having enough trouble with wanting to get a 70$ trigger for an 80$ gun.

 

[Markp]

i'm really curious how it shoots with the bull pup stock.
I wouldn't mind doing that but i can't get myself to spend that kind of money.

I'm having enough trouble with wanting to get a 70$ trigger for an 80$ gun.

I will say this, the two stage trigger in the M28/76 is smooth, it's a very nice two stage trigger. Not quite as good as my wifes CZ527 in match mode, but superior to it otherwise. That's saying quite a bit!

Mark

 

[BlueHeeler]

Angry Putin is very angry with you.

The Mosin should be interesting though.

 

[Garand1957]

Angry Putin is very angry with you.

The Mosin should be interesting though.

I'm leaving my Mosin rifles as issued....I don't want to meet "Angry Putin" and find out what kind of KGB torture tactics they use on people who defile old Russian rifles

 

[lawrencewendall]

I guess all you need is a laser and flashlight attachment for the revolver.
Nah. Keep us updated though.

I'm thinking of threading and canning this one.

 

[Markp]

I'm thinking of threading and canning this one.

+1 perfect weapon for it!

 

[BlueHeeler]

I'm thinking of threading and canning this one.

Have you tried shooting it? The double action is interesting. SA is actually pretty good.

From a collector value it is really cool. From a "pimp my gun/pay a tax stamp" aspect there are better candidates IMHO.

 

[hole punch]

Can I recommend sporterizing a *different* Mosin than that 1925 dragoon pictured?? That one is not as common as the wartime 91/30 types.

 

[psoyring]

I agree that is a real nice one, early ex-dragoon with the original prewar stock, would bring $150-$175 quite easily.

 

[lawrencewendall]

Here it is done as far as I'm concerned. He'll have to get the bi-pod himself and put it on. You should have seen him! He built it himself and was absolutely giddy the entire time. It's a non-destructive sporterization and I can put this old dragoon back to original with very little effort. Yeah, I could have done something else cheaper but watching him build this was worth the money. Time for the range!

 

[h2u]

I think it looks good! If a carbine fits (don't know why it wouldn't), that would shorten it up a bit too.

Don't worry about the price, doing something with your kids and making them happy is one of the best things a dad can do Cost be damned! Congrats.

 

[hvymax]

That is too cool if it is wicked accurate it will be an incredible package. I wonder if they make one for a Savage.