Bought myself a present

[Widewing]

Originally posted by midnight Target


Of course I had to undergo a strenuous background check and answer a whole bunch of really hard questions... and now I have to wait 11 days, cause I might just be a hot head who wants to off my wife in  a fit of rage over her DRIVING ... nevermind

anyway, since I'm new to gun ownership any suggestions would be appreciated.

Buy a good cleaning kit. Also, if you shoot surplus ammo, be sure to find out if it uses corrosive primers. It's not a problem if the ammo is corrosive, just wash the bolt, chamber and bore with soapy water, followed by a good solvent to displace any water film. Be sure to coat the bore and all exposed surfaces with a light film of oil after cleaning.

You bought a solid, reliable rifle. It should bring you many years of inexpensive fun. If you get bit by the bug, you can apply to the feds (BATF) for a Curio & Relic license (typically called a collector's license). This allows you to purchase firearms classified as curios or relics (typically over 50 years old) directly from wholesalers and avoid the expense and hassle of using a local FFL dealer. The application fee is $30 and the form is simple enough.

Have fun and be safe.

My regards,

Widewing

[Nightshift82]

I second on the C&R FFL, it's paid for itself so many times with transfer fees and discounts it's no every funny!

[Tarmac]

[midnight Target]

Advice is appreciated... especially yours Tarmac.

[Tarmac]

[Innominate]

Originally posted by midnight Target


Of course I had to undergo a strenuous background check and answer a whole bunch of really hard questions... and now I have to wait 11 days, cause I might just be a hot head who wants to off my wife in  a fit of rage over her DRIVING ... nevermind

anyway, since I'm new to gun ownership any suggestions would be appreciated.

Don't give into the "rubber butt pad" *******.  Fire the rifle as mother russia intended.  It's still easier to shoot than a 12 gauge shotgun.

The first time I went out shooting, the guy I went with had a veritable armory.  Ranging from a P38 to an XD40 to an AR-15 to an SKS.  Despite it being the cheapest gun he owned, his M44 was the gun I completely fell in love with.

Don't worry a lot about ammo.  The mosin will do well with anything you can get to run through it. The only exception is the special and fairly rare shvak he rounds.  The rifle was designed for the corrosive ammunition, as long as you clean it after shooting it, there are no problems.

If you can spare the $10, it's worth it for everything you ever wanted to know about the mosin-nagant


Edit: Where do you live that you're so restricted in buying a rifle?

[midnight Target]

Where do i live?

The belly of the beast!

[Seagoon]

Hi Charon,

Originally posted by Charon
I understand Seagoon,but are you sure it wasn't Paki? That  is just about the worst garbage out there.

I don't actually know for sure if the country of origin wasn't Pakistan. I bought the ammo at a gun show. The dealer said the country of origin was India.  The rounds (250) were in a canvas MG belt that was folded and put in another cardboard box. The canvas itself showed signs of mold, and several of the rounds in lower layers had significant verdigris. I bought them because he was selling them at 5 cents a round. I figured that even if some weren't in firing condition, it would be a bargain, which turned out to be a huge mistake. Cartridges found on a sunken WWII freighter probably wouldn't have fired significantly worse.

I'll see if I can find some of the old brass - I threw most of it away - and check for a headstamp.

- SEAGOON

[lazs2]

Ok... I am getting more and more lazy on the whole gun cleaning thing....  I bring guns and all kinds of ammo to shooting events with friends and then go home with a lot of dirty guns and empty unsorted brass.

I have taken to real shortcuts these days...  I spray some windex down the bore and chamber and bolt face of the rifles that had corrosive ammo or.... I spray em down real good with Mpro7   This stuff is guarenteed to neutralize salts and I believe  em... it has worked for me... it also gets down into the pores of the metal.

I get a tootbrush and a cleaning rod and brush everything down with dillons or shooters choice solvent including a few passes down the bore and or/cyl.(hoppes smells nice but it is pretty weak)

I wipe everything down with a rag and then spray it all down with breakfree and wipe off the excess with an old breakfree rag and then  run a hoppes bore snake that has the last couple inches sprayed with breakfree through.

Put everything back together and call it good.

Probly average about 5 minutes a gun and maybe an extra minute if I use a "lead wipe away" cloth to get the burn rings off the SS revolvers cylinders faces.

lazs

[nirvana]

What do you guys mean when you say it's designed for corrosive ammo?  Isn't it all the same, the corrosive just has salts that get left behind?