Mosins are a great rifle

[mriddick]

I figure what a better first post in the forum...

[AKTexas]

Without stating the obvious,they are one of the few affordable surplus rifles out there.

[gunnutz]

Yep! I love my 91/30's ,m 44's! But ammo's gone through the roof!

[Bluntforce]

Finn 39, not only one of the best shooting rifles ever made, one of the best looking.

[AKTexas]

Finn 39, not only one of the best shooting rifles ever made, one of the best looking.

+1!

[Richard Simmons]

Couldn't agree more. I've culled a lot of mine but still have the following:

Polish M44 (the first C&R I ever got and it was a BDay gift from my wife)
VKT M39 (shoots better than I can hold and looks just right)
Unissued Finn Hex 91/30 with potbelly stock. (Not really a favorite but it sure looks good)
Finn "41" 91/30 (by far my favorite. It's been there, done that and looks it. Kind of strange perhaps but It'll probably be the last one I would sell as it just speaks to me)
Russina M38 (forgot about this one. Very handy little carbine, more so than the M44 as it lacks the attached bayonet)


Having sold off all my M91, 91/24 and M27's the only one I'd really like to pick back up is the 27. Next to the M39 there is just something about the M27 that appeals to me.

Never had a 28 or 28/30. No particular reason I guess, just never ran across one.

[vit]

Well said. I did some reductions in my collection recently and now am down to 19. Sold a bunch of less desirable ones and one big dollar carbine to buy a PSL.

[aliceinchains]

7.62 x 54 is a great round. And still plenty of military surplus ammo. Also the fact of different variations. I have quite a few. M-39 Finnish are my favorite.

[Hammerstrike44]

I own every Russian variant, the 91 Cossack, the Dragoon 91, the 91/30 hex receivers, the oldest is a Czarist 1907, the oldest is an M44 with the cruciform bayonette. I own the "hurry up and finish the dam*ed rifle before we all have to learn to speak German" M38, and I used to own the Finn, but traded it for a "blond" stocked original 91/30. What began as a love affair with the Mauser, became a collection of the Rifles of the two World Wars, and then became the "quest" for more and varied Mosin Nagants. So I have both the Springfield 03, 30-06; the 1917 Eddie Stone 30-06; the M-1 Garand, the Steyr Mannlicher 95 straight bolt (yes I load my own), the crappy Italian WWI Caranco, the good WWII Caranco, the Japanese Arisaka Type 38 rifle and calvary rifle, the Type 44 crappy calvary rifle, (you could tell they had their rice bombed out of them by then) and the Mauser (95 WWI, Spanish, Ottoman Empire, German, Yugoslavian, and several sniper versions of the Ger. 98k with the original scopes) the WWI Mark I Lee Enfield, WWII Lee Enfield, the Mark I ruled the world prior to WWI and these are great rifles. However, my personal favorites are my 46 Russian Mosin Nagants. Some are bought for the wood finish, some are obtained because they are rare, some because they are historic (M38) and some just because they appeal to me. No nonesense, rugged, easly cleaned and stripped, and their basic and fundamental purpose is clear when you pick one up.....to kill.