i am about to take a mosin nagant in to get some work done. I am getting the barrel cut to 18", the barrel threaded for a silencer(it will have a thread protector for now), the barrel recrowned, and the headspacing checked/adjusted. how much should this cost me?

Depends on if the headspace needs adjusting. Definitely more than $100, might be less if the guy has tooling to turn the whole action instead of just a barrel.

Good luck finding somebody with a Nagant action wrench.

I've had the barrel out of one MN receiver. NEVER again. I swear to god the Russians used some sort of communist voodoo to fuse those two chunks of steel together. If I was to charge you - it'd cost a million$$$$. I wish you luck finding someone :D

Oh - I left the bolt in mine while doing it in hopes it wouldn't deform - seemed to work okay.

I am more concerned about the barrel being cut/threaded/recrowned. the headspacing seems fine, i just wanted him to check it more than anything. vermin, thanks to you i now have the urge to start a punk band named communist voodoo. this is not a commie nagant, but an imperialist one(1916).

I use one of the lathes at a buddies machine shop most of the time and his has a large enough spindle on it that you can chock up an entire barreled receiver in there. The cut / thread / crown - should be simple (and hopefully affordable) for a properly equiped shop.

here is what i am looking at for prices. 100 for the cut, recrown, and thread, and 55 to glass bed, recoil lug, and float the barrel. i think its well worth the price.

Sounds fair enough.


Threading and crowning a barrel isn't exactly the hardest thing in the world to do, even without a lathe. That shouldn't be any problem for a qualified gunsmith to do...

Sounds fair enough.


Threading and crowning a barrel isn't exactly the hardest thing in the world to do, even without a lathe. That shouldn't be any problem for a qualified gunsmith to do...

this guy is a pro. i send him a good amount of business when friends bring me something to work on or fix thats over my head. i have been waiting for him to get time for a couple months now, and it looks like my nagant will be done in time to get it ready for d day.:smokin:

It looks like once you remove all the trigger parts and whatnot that the receiver is round enough to not seriously fuck up the ballance of the rotating mass on a lathe. I'm no machinist though.

Or if the spindle is big enough, why not just take the front sight off and stuff it in through the back side?