I feel like the answer is YES!!! But should I get a Mosin Nagat for a project rifle. Cheap, tons of stuff for them and I'll shed no tears if I am cutting or drilling it and destroy it. I really like the promag archangel stock. Actually I like some of the regular "hunting style" stocks, but being able to use detachable mags is a huge turn on for the promag stock.
My mod list seems to be a promag archangel stock, timney trigger, 2-6x32mm Simmons prohunter pistol scope (possibly dove tail rings right on the barrel dove tail with rear sight removed) and lastly cut the barrel down to something between 20-24". Probably start with a modest cut to 24" and I can always cut it shorter.
Probably 80% would be a range queen, but I'd want to use it hunting occasionally.
Thoughts? I probably won't get one till late this year and it'll probably be a year long collection of bits and pieces.
Any thoughts on surplus ammo? Just how corrosive is the stuff? Like clean out immediately kind of corrosive? What about reloading something like PPU rounds? Steel case ammo in it?
I am buying a .308 from my wife's uncle (a bit of a beater, but still good shooting Sako) as my first big boy rifle in a couple of weeks. 7.62x54r seems a little redundant, but it sounds like fun and not too expensive to build a Nagat as a project gun.
Or are nagats going to be a problem child? Focus monetary resources elsewhere on other guns I desire, like a .30-30 Marlin/Henry, M1 garand, .22wmr, a .223, etc?
I realize ya'll can't read my inner thoughts and desires, but if you were in my shoes and all you had was a 12ga, .22lr, ML, and about to have a .308 bolt action, would you consider a Nagat for a project rifle or wait a couple of years and focus my money on other firearms first.
My mod list seems to be a promag archangel stock, timney trigger, 2-6x32mm Simmons prohunter pistol scope (possibly dove tail rings right on the barrel dove tail with rear sight removed) and lastly cut the barrel down to something between 20-24". Probably start with a modest cut to 24" and I can always cut it shorter.
Probably 80% would be a range queen, but I'd want to use it hunting occasionally.
Thoughts? I probably won't get one till late this year and it'll probably be a year long collection of bits and pieces.
Any thoughts on surplus ammo? Just how corrosive is the stuff? Like clean out immediately kind of corrosive? What about reloading something like PPU rounds? Steel case ammo in it?
I am buying a .308 from my wife's uncle (a bit of a beater, but still good shooting Sako) as my first big boy rifle in a couple of weeks. 7.62x54r seems a little redundant, but it sounds like fun and not too expensive to build a Nagat as a project gun.
Or are nagats going to be a problem child? Focus monetary resources elsewhere on other guns I desire, like a .30-30 Marlin/Henry, M1 garand, .22wmr, a .223, etc?
I realize ya'll can't read my inner thoughts and desires, but if you were in my shoes and all you had was a 12ga, .22lr, ML, and about to have a .308 bolt action, would you consider a Nagat for a project rifle or wait a couple of years and focus my money on other firearms first.
