God, that is one gorgeous piece of steel. My Uncle Bob has one from the 30's and its amazing. I hope I inherit it :-3
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God, that is one gorgeous piece of steel. My Uncle Bob has one from the 30's and its amazing. I hope I inherit it :-3
I love lever actions and that right there is the epitome of why
Apparently the price of M38's is really starting to go up. However this one up for auction is currently sitting low http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=280799268 If only I was in the position to snag it right now :(
You remind me it still stings I missed a 1940 Tula M38...
I would snag that M38 but after fee's and shipping it would cost me more then to cherry pick through the rack of M38's at a local gun store near me.
Oh yeah counter-bored MN's don't fit well with me, considering I just decided to peer into my first MN's rifling and grooves it is shiny as heck and I can see the rifling alittle bit at the end of the barrel....and that the rack of M38's I can avoid a CB rifle.
counter-bored rifles are nice, they can in fact be more accurate than the standard bore and are just as shiny, sometimes. It depends. The down side to counter bored is that the original crown and bore were shit so they had to counter-bore to fix it.
Yeah it's just I never delt with one, don't like CB rifles for some reason.
And I'm pissed, the original front sight for my 94 the very top part of it fell off somehow, now it's kinda weird and can't do shit with it...and it's partly rusted so I'll need to get a new front sight.
you're just jealous~~Quote:
Originally Posted by PenGuin1362
of what? lol One mosin I own is CB the other isn't, I get the best of both worlds :D Also what I like about Counter bored rifles is there's a pretty good chance they saw some action during the war which adds to the history of the rifle. It depends on what you want.
If your Mosin is dated 1944 or earlier, the chance of its being used in the war rapidly approaches '1', doubly so if it's a sniper rifle.
Really all a CB means is that the soldier it was issued to neglected to realise that the cleaning rod won't reach the last 2-3" of rifling and it rusted to shit and back during storage. There was a trial done where a match-grade M1 was cleaned aggressively from the muzzle with a steel rod, it took so long to wear it to even the next increment of bore grade (which was still very good) that it mostly throws that theory out the window. The fact that the CB is always at or near the depth between the cleaning rod's muzzle guide and the end of the jag, on the other hand, says a lot. A rifle that was shot a handful of times on a range and never used again could be CB, a rifle that served throughout the war might not be.
Whoever had my rifle cared for it a lot. The rifling is incredible right to the crown, like a new rifle. I wonder where it's been, and what happened to the sniper that used it... if only they'd kept some kind of records. I know some Soviet snipers remembered their rifles' serial numbers, but there were no official records of who got what rifle, let alone where they went and what they did.
You and me both, it's like my rifle saw barely any action, all but one part is Izhevsk and the Izhevsk parts exhibit war-time machining. It's been through 2 refurbishments, the only thing the workers did was paint any white metal black (which came off easily on mine), restamped the numbers (despite the bolt looking original to the rifle), sanded off any stock markings, and did a sloppy shellac job.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
I kinda wanna change the rear barrel band from Tula to Izhevsk to then have no Tula parts but then again I kinda dont wanna.