43' Izzy Mosin Sporter

[patrickgzx]

New to the site...
My oldest son introduced me to the Mosin while looking for a .22lr rifle for his birthday last November. After seeing that the gun shop had lots to choose from, he lost interest in the .22lr rifle and went immediately to looking for one.
I picked out a terrible looking 43' izzy, obviously I didn't know much about them at the time. Anyway.. I shot 20-30 milisurp through it to make sure it was accurate and went to modifing.

Some of the help came from youtube and the username Iraqvetern8888. He did a complete breakdown, clean up and then went to Sportering the Mosin.

I'm pretty good mechanical and really never did any "backyard" gunsmithing if you can call it that. I don't claim to be an expert just curious to see if I can do it.

Mine is the top 2 Mosins, the bottom is my oldest sons. The top one is the 43' izzy.

Bought an ATI synthetic stock. That took some work to make the barrel free float and then had to remove some from the inside of the receiver area when I couldn't load any rounds into the magazine area. The Interrupter Ejector was jammed and wasn't able to move out of the way.

Then went to cutting the barrel and recrowning it myself. Not a bad job.

 

[patrickgzx]

Without a front sight post, I went on the lookout for a scope and scope mount that could put up with the Mosin recoil. After reading what seems like a hundred different opinions I went with the Rock Solid scope mount. While I was spending the money, I bought their bent bolt to go along with it. Top notch products..

The Scope mount requires you to drill and tap the top of the breech for the 2 upper mounting bolts and 1 in the side of the receiver. I ended up using the next size up, they came with m5 bolts and I used m6 bolts instead. I've put 700-800 rounds through the Mosin and have never had the bolts come loose. The scope hasn't moved at all in the 9 months that I've been shooting it.

The bent bolt is a work of art. Very nice welding and it came already polished up. That indeed helped the bolt action slide smoother.

I removed the rear sight completely, drove the pins back into the barrel and went to grinding off the rear sight post. You can see that imperfections in the barrel where I couldn't get it completely smooth all the way down the barrel.

Next was the muzzle break.... I couldn't find anything for a Mosin Nagant, only AR-15 and AK stuff online. Somehow I ran into this company called CNCwarrior on youtube. They actually sell a kit for the Mosin Nagant, M15x1 kit; the only issue with their kit was that it went on after the front sight post, where it was thinner. Since mine was cut and abit thicker than their die was I had to carefully remove some material from the outer edge of the barrel for the die to start. All the products worked great..


The scope is an $80 Centerpoint 4-16X40 from Walmart. It has done its job and hasn't broke internally yet. I didn't think it would have put up with this much abuse but it has.

The bipod is a Winchester brand and was again bought at Walmart for $40.

 

[patrickgzx]

Well.. With it all done up and ready to shoot, it was time to see just how accurate I could be with it. All the target are at 105-110 yards.

We made up some great big spinners at work. The spinners put up a good fight but lost.

Of course... the last 2 are of my oldest son, BORIS>>>>

 

[patrickgzx]

Forgot the most important part..
The Muzzle FLASH!!

 

[Chaunsey]

you did awesome work, very well done.


however, no offense meant, but this thread still makes me sad.

 

[lee2]

I cried a little. :-/

 

[Machodoc]

I don't think that the OP realizes that most of the people on the C&R thread are into preserving these firearms, rather than cutting them and otherwise modifying them in ways that can't be easily reversed. I'm not saying this so much as a criticism, but only to explain why there may not be a lot of "oooh ... ahhh!" feedback here. Also, once you've altered the firearm in that way, it no longer complies with C&R classification. That said, it's your rifle.

 

[patrickgzx]

I don't think that the OP realizes that most of the people on the C&R thread are into preserving these firearms, rather than cutting them and otherwise modifying them in ways that can't be easily reversed. I'm not saying this so much as a criticism, but only to explain why there may not be a lot of "oooh ... ahhh!" feedback here. Also, once you've altered the firearm in that way, it no longer complies with C&R classification. That said, it's your rifle.

Wow.. Never thought of it that way. I'm sorry to post it here then. I'll see about moving it then.

 

[yellowsled]

Baby Jebus just cried a little too....


I'm glad it was only a 43, with that said it looks great. Not something I could do.

 

[Numidian]

I like it. Screw the haters and purists.

 

[Russ D]

Hey it's your rifle and there are literally millions of those things around. I'd say you did pretty good looking at those groups with milsurp ammo.

 

[Sirex]

As said, they made zillions of these things, which are typically dismissed as crappy rifles by gunsnobs. Granted I like the rarer and genuine Mosins, but I have seen some really nice ones, like this one. Mosins are cheap, fun guns to tinker with. I don't think they'll see WW3, so have fun withem'. I like it

 

[ADR]

Looks like some pretty nice work, I like it.

 

[Ironnewt]

As said, they made zillions of these things, which are typically dismissed as crappy rifles by gunsnobs. Granted I like the rarer and genuine Mosins, but I have seen some really nice ones, like this one. Mosins are cheap, fun guns to tinker with. I don't think they'll see WW3, so have fun withem'. I like it

I don't think they'll see WW3,

that's why they were in storage for years. For WW III.

 

[Eastcoasttj]

With so many out there I think it's a great one to start tinkering with. You screw it up, no big deal. $100 and try again. You did an awesome job man, looks great.

 

[Eastcoasttj]

If you don't mind me asking, how much did the whole project set you back?

 

[SuperMag]

NICE work!

 

[km04]

Very nice job! It looks very good. I have a few and slapped an ATI stock on one as well.

 

[patrickgzx]

With so many out there I think it's a great one to start tinkering with. You screw it up, no big deal. $100 and try again. You did an awesome job man, looks great.

If you don't mind me asking, how much did the whole project set you back?

That was my thinking also.. The local Gunshop had them for $79.99 for the Rifle, bayonet, cleaning kit... the works. I couldn't pass it up. And like you said,,,, so what. I'll go buy another one for that price.

As far as the cost....
$79.99 for rife
$37.99 "night muzzle brake" cncwarrior
$26.99 for the m15x1 die for rethreading the barrel at cncwarrior
$69.96 Centerpoint scope at walmart
$69.00 ATI monte carlo stock on ebay
$100 Rock Solid scope mount
$60 Rock Solid Bent bolt
$39.96 Winchester Bipod at walmart

Total would be around $485... give or take $20-30 bucks for shipping on item.

 

[BlueHeeler]

I am a bit of a Mosin snob so I cried a little.

That said you did some quality work to make the rifle suit your needs. I expect with the short barrel it has a bit of bark like the carbines.

The original stock looks good, you could probably sell it.