Mossin Nagants
 

I have a friend who has 3 for sale, I will get pictures by next week, he bought them in a lot from a state sale, I looked at them and they look to be in really pretty shape, still in their boxes. I have no idea on price and he has no idea either. If anyone is interested I'll pursuit for you. I offered him $100 for a Stevens .22 in the same lot and he wants to think about it. looked new.

$200 is a good friend price these days.

I'm not interested on them. I'll be talking to him more by either MOnday or Tuesday and I'll get more info and maybe pictures and post them here if anyone wants them. I told him I'd take the .22 if the price is right and keep it for my grandson (he's only 6 month old) but I'm sure it's gonna be worth a lot more in 15 years.

I'll give him $50 apiece for those old antiques. ;)

I'm sitting good on Mosin's because I bought 16 of them a few years ago when Fleetfarm had them on sale for $89 each. I went to every Fleetfarm within 50 miles of me and had them bring out all that they had. I probably looked at over 100 of them. I wound up with 4 ex snipers and a dozen cream puff hex receivers...the best gems of the lot. Not sure why I bought so many... but the price was right.

If you don't have one, you should buy one.

Mosins Anonymous: meetings near you! :D

I only have 8, I am a slacker... I have sold a few though, including a purty 1927/53 MO marked five line Tula and a pretty rough M28. I even had a really matching (not force matched) M44, sadly with a broken stock.
The rest (sold) were pretty common though, and I made a bit to put into other purchases.
Wait, I have 9... I forgot about the Wz.48!

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If you don't have one, I recommend fixing that. They are a bit pricey for a single shot .22, but it is pretty darned accurate and fun to shoot.

BTW, my brother has 1 Mosin. It can be done!

I have, but one Mosin 91/30. It was redone in 1942 and never reissued. It was still packed in the cosmoline and factory packaging. All numbers match.

Believe it or not, it is my favorite to shoot. Hard hitting and accurate further than my old eyes can see and ammo is reasonably priced. I need to find a couple spam cans though.

I lost count of my Mosin herd, but it's large and distinguished. Probably 50 plus from about every major combloc country. I got a few for around $20 each back when Bush 2 was in office and the curio and relic offerings at all the retailers were overflowing. 800 round crates of ammo for them running around $75. I miss those days and no, we're not talking a big difference in the buying value of the dollar. Free market capitalism = large supply = low prices.

I got a bunch of them on the cheap, too. Some are amazingly accurate, too. Some took a little effort to make accurate. Some are just fun shooters.

Brian

I have a bunch of Swedsih Mausers got back when you could get 'em for $200 and less

6.5x55 and 9.3x57

I have a bunch of them too. Not sure how many. At least 7-8.

Seems many of us here caught the Mosing Nagant addiction when they were dirt cheap.

I had a bunch of them when they first came out, near 30. Sold them all to help with the daughters wedding. One of the few guns I don't miss after selling them.

I read, the action, you cant modify them, use any other cartridge/ rebarrel/ rechamber them

Not actually true. Easy to convert to .30-40 Krag, .303 British and the Northern European countries have all sorts of wildcats and other cartridge conversions for them.

I've a mod 44, a 38, 91-30, and a Finn. I love shooting these rifles, they are just a hoot to shoot. Not the prettiest of rifles but I sure like them a lot.