I have seen one where the main stock had a grain similar to the ones on Finn Nagants, and the upper guard was a pale blonde.Originally Posted by rossmum
Made me want nto throw up in my mouth.
I have seen one where the main stock had a grain similar to the ones on Finn Nagants, and the upper guard was a pale blonde.
Made me want nto throw up in my mouth.
yeah, mine got a new stock and buttplate, new bolt body, and apparently new floorplate too (unless they were lazy when they made it and didn't bother with the prefix). still, matching is matching, while a definitive match would be better i am happy with what i have. bolt body will be kept safe while i get a new bent-handle one, hopefully have it serialled to match as well. will probably just cut the stock rather than piss about finding one that's already done, i don't like destructive modification but oh well. as long as none of the many cartouches are damaged, i'm happy. then it's just a case of drilling, tapping, and fixing the mount base to the rifle, then shimming/grinding the scope mount as necessary to align.
i just realised while giving the bore a quick clean that my front sight post is canted quite noticeably to one side. i guess once i shoot the rifle i'll figure out if that is going to be a problem or not.
Take a hammer/mallet and uncant it?
it may actually be like that for a reason, hence wanting to wait until i shoot it before i do anything
Well yeah of course. Afterwards though...
it's hard to eyeball if it's just the post or the entire globe, the post seems the most drastically canted but i think the globe might be off by a degree or two as well. we'll see
I hate the globe design. Ugh....
So ANGRY.
Turns out that you need to give gunstore owners a fucking reach around during the correct alignment of every fucking solar system in our arm of the galaxy to get 7.62x54R anywhere within two hours' drive of where my parents live (and I shoot). The nearest guaranteed supply is the place I got the rifle from, who sell spam cans of Bulgarian stuff for $265/440rds but are literally in the centre of fucking Sydney so good fucking luck getting parking if you have a car, and if not, hahaha have fun trying to find a way of carrying around a fucking spam can of surplus in such a way as to avoid arrest. Apparently they can ship it out but of course I missed the deadline for the week by about twelve hours. There's a store within almost doable distance that has 7.62x54R every once in a while, but apparently never runs out of every kind of European hunting moon ammo you could ever imagine.
Long story short: 91/30 still unfired by me, photos still on dad's laptop because I was so flustered about the ammo situation I forgot to pull them, and I couldn't even fix the incredibly misadjusted front sight on my No.4 because I got rained out before I even settled down to shoot .22s with a mate. Back when we adjusted it for windage I had the most incredibly hilarious flinch, and now I don't I can't hit a goddamn thing with it past 75m because it shoots at least 10" right of POA. Oh, and I got a reply back from the Bolt Man. He is out of new-production sniper bolt bodies and cannot buy any further shipments as they have become prohibitively expensive. I don't want to send my matched (albeit arsenal-replaced) body to him in case it gets lost or stolen, so my only hope is basically to find a spare bolt body kicking around and have it sent to him, which sounds convoluted as fuck but really I don't have much choice. I don't expect my rifle will be returned to sniper standard for at least two, probably more like three months at this rate.
In other news, waiting for my landlord to get home from work so I can find out if my PU finally arrived. The thing supposedly left Kiev 18 days ago, so if it isn't here this week, I may not be fully responsible for my actions. The untold horror of my ANGRILY-WORDED LETTERS will be a black mark in the volumes of Australia Post's history.
Last edited by rossmum; February 19th, 2012 at 02:35 AM.
$265 for 440 rounds
God I'm glad I live in a fucktarded capitalist country that doesn't give two shits about this kind of thing. That is absurd.
Keep in mind that new production anything that isn't .22LR will run you at or over a dollar a round, too. And our dollar is owning the shit out of yours while shitting on its face, so that's more like $275-280 US.
Everything gun-related here is retardedly expensive. It's more to do with our awful laws than anything; they are in short enough supply and hard enough to import that you basically have to pay the fuckers way more than what something is actually worth. It's shit.
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