Closeout M44 Mosins at AIM? Anyone grab one?

[abr10dr]

Wojo, Yeah my first, It's all apart now, I'll post some pics maybe tomorrow. There is rust on pretty much every part to some degree. Haven't got to the bore yet, but my hopes aren't high. It is a project gun and I'll use it as a learning tool, about what I expected.

Rick

 

[Wojo]

Wojo, Yeah my first, It's all apart now, I'll post some pics maybe tomorrow. There is rust on pretty much every part to some degree. Haven't got to the bore yet, but my hopes aren't high. It is a project gun and I'll use it as a learning tool, about what I expected.

Rick

First c&r?

 

[abr10dr]

First c&r?

No first Mosin, first C&R rifle, up till now all my C&R purchases have been handguns.

 

[Arcamm]

Waiting on BBT. Lot's of snow coming down.



.....and the wife is working from home today.

 

[Wojo]

Waiting on BBT. Lot's of snow coming down.



.....and the wife is working from home today.

Did you intercept big brown today?

 

[Arcamm]

Did you intercept big brown today?

BBT usually gets here about 10:30am, so I went out and plowed the drive about 10am just to make sure they wouldn't have the "could not get down the driveway" excuse. By 2:00pm, they were a no show, so I plowed the drive again. Finally, just after 2:30, they showed up.

It's a 1946 Izhevsk. Naturally. I think you guys are making up this Tula thing. Anyway, it must have been in the same woodpecker riding beaver battle that your's was in. Or maybe it was issued to a rail road crew instead of a spike hammer. It's really hard to tell with all the cosmoline on it. Lot's of rust pitting, but I have to strip it see how much. How do you get rust with 20 pounds of cosmo-crap on a rifle? My Dad always said, "Never buy an old surplus rifle that was dipped on a Friday afternoon or a Monday morning.








All numbers but the bolt match. I haven't pulled the bolt out to check the bore. Here's the pictures.





It has an interesting repair. I have a of Type 53 with the same style repair.

 

[Wojo]

BBT usually gets here about 10:30am, so I went out and plowed the drive about 10am just to make sure they wouldn't have the "could not get down the driveway" excuse. By 2:00pm, they were a no show, so I plowed the drive again. Finally, just after 2:30, they showed up.

It's a 1946 Izhevsk. Naturally. I think you guys are making up this Tula thing. Anyway, it must have been in the same woodpecker riding beaver battle that your's was in. Or maybe it was issued to a rail road crew instead of a spike hammer. It's really hard to tell with all the cosmoline on it. Lot's of rust pitting, but I have to strip it see how much. How do you get rust with 20 pounds of cosmo-crap on a rifle? My Dad always said, "Never buy an old surplus rifle that was dipped on a Friday afternoon or a Monday morning.

Dang, I hope it cleans up better than you expect and the bore is good.

The one I have that is kinda like that I am going to go monkey-poo on it with some ed's red and walk that fine line between screwing up the patina and addressing some of the rust issues.

 

[Arcamm]

Oh I'm happy with it. I'm cautiously optimistic. I did glance at the bore and it looks clean, no rust. I can already tell it's nicer than one of my $87 Type 53s. I'm just resisting the urge to clean it tonight.

 

[Arcamm]

Did a quick cleanup, it's rough but worth what it cost. After all, it survived the battle of Являются те чертовски дятлы езда бобры. There's only one other rifle know to have been in that forgotten battle. Apparently, the battle was so ferocious, it's been stricken from Russian history.

Any way, Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[Melnic]

Arcamm, does that have the tall front sight?

 

[Arcamm]

Arcamm, does that have the tall front sight?

Can you tell from this pictures?

 

[Melnic]

The post on the sight

 

[Arcamm]

Oh. Like this?

 

[Melnic]

Yup
Good deal for you.
That's the tall post so it should not be a high shooter like some others are

 

[Wojo]

Got the "bad" one of the two i bought cleaned up a little bit. It has more pitting on the underside of the barrel (under the wood) than i would like to see. Borderline in my head on safe/not safe. May post a few pics up to see what you guys think.

The all matching looks pretty good.