Joined the 762x54R club

[D_JEEPER]

Found a really good looking mosin at a place that has only had shit up until tonight.

Pics to come....after cosmoline removal

[87manche]

Originally Posted by D_JEEPER

Found a really good looking mosin at a place that has only had shit up until tonight.

Pics to come....after cosmoline removal

Have fun.
You'll never get it all, so just stop when you're good and pissed off.

[Diesel-Power]

I joined the Mosin club last week, and pinched the fuck out of my finger webbing tonight on the bolt.

[papabear]

I've been told a heat gun melts it off pretty well. Never bought a gun covered in the stuff though.

[kwrangln]

When I cleaned the cosmoline off of my SKS I threw all the metal parts in the dishwasher, worked like a charm. It'll be a bit of a challenge with the MN since it's so damn long, but maybe with the racks taken out. Worth a shot.

[PRegner]

Welcome to the wonderfull world of Mosins! If you're like a lot of us, you won't be able to stop at just one.

Brake cleaner works good for cleaning cosmoline from the metal parts. For getting it out of the wood, I recommend wrapping the stock in toilet paper, and bagging it in plastic. Set it some place warm, and keep changing the toilet paper wrapping until it comes off clean. It takes a little while, but you avoid any risk of warping the wood through the use of excessive heat.

[87manche]

don't forget your mandatory 440rd tin of super corrosive ammo!

[D_JEEPER]

Oh, I paid 126 out the door.... not the greatest, but it is a VG+ condition rifle, not counterbored, not butchered and patched stock, etc.

[Zuki Tyler]

Originally Posted by D_JEEPER

Oh, I paid 126 out the door.... not the greatest, but it is a VG+ condition rifle, not counterbored, not butchered and patched stock, etc.

Not a bad price for a good rifle.

Receiver type? Year? Configuration?

[D_JEEPER]

Its a 1943 90/31, round receiver.

For the stock, i decided to not unsaturate it, but i took #0000 steel wool to it and took the outer globs off until the color lightened up and was no longer sticky. Feels nice now

Still has cosmoline in it, but isnt unpleasant to touch now. The receiver is nice and clean now (purple power, elbow grease and a trash bag full of paper towels). The bore looks really clean and crisp. Lots of cleaning. Probably used 20 bore swabs....after wire brushing and degreasing.

im looking at modding this thing already.... is that bad?

[Zuki Tyler]

$130 OTD isn't bad for what you found.

A '43 is the most common year, but it sounds like you weren't buying it for the collectibility anyhow.

Time to take a picture of it laying across your woman (naked)

Mount the bayonet.

[slngblde]

Mosin's can be addictive. I have 3 at the moment. I am going to just start making my own carbines like what i did with this '38 tula 91/30. The wood on it was very dark, i went ahead and used another can or two of brake cleaner to strip off the shellac/grunge finish and resprayed it with satin lacquer. Its much handier with nearly a foot taken out of the barrel.

[Diesel Smoke]

My wife and I set out a Christmas budget for gift for each other this year and we decided we were just going to shop for our own gifts. A local guy has 91/30 up for 95 bucks and it's really tempting to buy it for myself. I just don't want another project. And I know it can sit in the safe and be a fun gun until it's time comes......damn, I am convincing myself already.

[glamisrnr]

strip the gun down, wrap the furniture in news paper or paper towel, stuff into BLACK trash bag, set in sunlight. Worked for me, takes time and a few paper changes sometimes. For the small metal parts toss em in a parts cleaner or ultra sonic cleaner or boil them in water in a old pan.

[D_JEEPER]

too late, all clean haha.

i might strip the stock later, but i just used old english and it darkened up nicely

I like the saturated wood look more than bare, but bare looks nice too. just not my style with this rifle

[D_JEEPER]

here's mine

From the store, soaked in cosmoline.


and as it sits now

[slngblde]

Thats not bad, the one i posted was really dark... could not see any of the grain of the wood at all. Luckily it had good grain under the grunge.

[Romogo]

You forgot to mention you bought it while you were out riding your motorcycle. Threw that bitch over your shoulder and rode home. Yet you fail for not getting any pictures riding down the highway with it. In your area I'm shocked you didn't get pulled over for "wielding an Automatic AK47 machine gun with 71 round clip and the shoulder thing that goes up".

[misterfubar]

I was at Cabelas when I was home on leave picking up a scope for my Mauser project and I saw they had them on sale for $99. Couldn't resist. I really don't need another one and I can always get them cheaper with my C&R but there is just something to be said about walking out of store with $100 rifle.

The wood on it looks like it should clean up real nicely and all the metal was immaculate. I think it was a 39, and it wasn't a Tula? I didn't take pictures and it's locked up 7500 miles away.

[PRegner]

Originally Posted by slngblde

That's a nice piece of baltic birch. I've yet to be so fortunate as to get one with nice grain patterns.

[slngblde]

Originally Posted by PRegner

That's a nice piece of baltic birch. I've yet to be so fortunate as to get one with nice grain patterns.

Thanks, i got lucky on this one. It was so dark with the cosmoline/shellac/peasant sweat funk that was on it you could not even see any grain at all. Its definitely a keeper.

[87manche]

Since we're posting picures:



Dad's latest project.

Boyd's stock
pillar bedded with rocksolid pillars
Timney trigger (awesome BTW)
and I ordered the rocksolid mount/bent bolt for him for christmas.

We're going to see how it shoots before deciding to cut the barrel or not, or replace it with a Lothar barrel. The stock is all free floated.
After we sort out how it shoots it's probably going to get duracoated.

[44Runner]

Originally Posted by 87manche

Since we're posting picures:



Dad's latest project.

Boyd's stock
pillar bedded with rocksolid pillars
Timney trigger (awesome BTW)
and I ordered the rocksolid mount/bent bolt for him for christmas.

We're going to see how it shoots before deciding to cut the barrel or not, or replace it with a Lothar barrel. The stock is all free floated.
After we sort out how it shoots it's probably going to get duracoated.

That is sweet. Exactly what I want to do.

[87manche]

The stock is muhc nicer than my shitty cameraphone can show.

It came out of the box ready to stick an action in. Dad had to dremel a bit to fit the pillars/trigger safety. A regular mosin would ust drpo in if you weren't doing that sort of thing.
It's "pepper" on the boyds website.

[slngblde]

Ill probably get one of those for the next project.