Picked this up Sunday at the Chantilly Show.
They sold it with 100 free rounds of Russian Surplus.
This was arsinal refurbed by the Finns at some point. Blueing is 95%+ I'd say.
Mineral Spirt clean up sunday evening. Only took about an hour or less now that I've done it several times before.
The Finn modified trigger was nice. It springs back for a 2 stage trigger. The trigger pull (did not measure) was definitely less than 3lbs. Probably about 2-3lbs.
Bolt action was smooth.
Taking it apart, it already had what the Finns put on for shimming on the front action screw and tang. I did not touch anything, just re-assembled after cleaning so I can see where its at.
I like how the Fins did the stock so your not scratching it up on break down. Also how they add the hollowing out below the barrel to help dissipate heat?
I took it out this morning using the Russian surplus they gave me. Like I expected, it shot high even at the lowest elevation setting. To compensate, I brought with me a piece of neoprene adhesive backed gasket cut to the width of the Finn front sight blade. I attached then used the rear sight to adjust elevation. I waffled back and forth figuring out if I wanted a center hold or 6 oclock hold but the windage was just 1/8 of a turn off. I really like the finn design of the front sight. Easy to adjust windage.
After getting windage set at 50yds, it started to hold a nice group.
At 100 yards were eyesight comes into play, I'm at least happy that once I got things set up, I was hitting all the shots inside a 5" circle. I still have to figure out my sight picture with the elevation.
I don't know if it was my imagination but the recoil on this seemed less than the 91/30. May have been the surplus was different than my other surplus or something. Dunno.
The guy from Leesburg had about 15 of these. I wouldn't say I got this at a great deal or a bargain. But I did not want to come back empty handed. My son had a big smile on his face carrying it out to the car in the parking lot
Edit: I looked it up and that Tang stamping shows it's a 1900 Tula Receiver
They sold it with 100 free rounds of Russian Surplus.
This was arsinal refurbed by the Finns at some point. Blueing is 95%+ I'd say.
Mineral Spirt clean up sunday evening. Only took about an hour or less now that I've done it several times before.
The Finn modified trigger was nice. It springs back for a 2 stage trigger. The trigger pull (did not measure) was definitely less than 3lbs. Probably about 2-3lbs.
Bolt action was smooth.
Taking it apart, it already had what the Finns put on for shimming on the front action screw and tang. I did not touch anything, just re-assembled after cleaning so I can see where its at.
I like how the Fins did the stock so your not scratching it up on break down. Also how they add the hollowing out below the barrel to help dissipate heat?
I took it out this morning using the Russian surplus they gave me. Like I expected, it shot high even at the lowest elevation setting. To compensate, I brought with me a piece of neoprene adhesive backed gasket cut to the width of the Finn front sight blade. I attached then used the rear sight to adjust elevation. I waffled back and forth figuring out if I wanted a center hold or 6 oclock hold but the windage was just 1/8 of a turn off. I really like the finn design of the front sight. Easy to adjust windage.
After getting windage set at 50yds, it started to hold a nice group.
At 100 yards were eyesight comes into play, I'm at least happy that once I got things set up, I was hitting all the shots inside a 5" circle. I still have to figure out my sight picture with the elevation.
I don't know if it was my imagination but the recoil on this seemed less than the 91/30. May have been the surplus was different than my other surplus or something. Dunno.
The guy from Leesburg had about 15 of these. I wouldn't say I got this at a great deal or a bargain. But I did not want to come back empty handed. My son had a big smile on his face carrying it out to the car in the parking lot
Edit: I looked it up and that Tang stamping shows it's a 1900 Tula Receiver
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