I got and M44 Polish $50 2/17/2002 1952 and have converted it to 223 with a Remington 222 take off barrel and bottom eject.
I have converted mosin nagant actions to 7mmRemMag, 300WinMag, 25 Krag Ackley, and 6.5 Vostok as repeaters and 45/70 and 223 as single shots.
I bet the .223 is pretty neat. Have you got it drilled and tapped for a scope? a scope I've seen online where they've been rebarrelled to .444 and .45-70.
I got and M44 Polish $50 2/17/2002 1952 and have converted it to 223 with a Remington 222 take off barrel and bottom eject.
I have converted mosin nagant actions to 7mmRemMag, 300WinMag, 25 Krag Ackley, and 6.5 Vostok as repeaters and 45/70 and 223 as single shots.
I bet the .223 is pretty neat. Have you got it drilled and tapped for a scope? a scope I've seen online where they've been rebarrelled to .444 and .45-70.
I tested with a 40X scope
The bolt is pulled back. The lifter is raised. The 223 round is placed on the lifter. The bolt is pushed forward. The rifle is fired. The bolt is withdrawn causing the case to fall out the magazine well.
Accuracy is great. Feeding is slower.
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Pretty neat. Nothing wrong with a single shot. Did you have much trouble with the bolt face, and extractor?
I ran an end mill in the extractor relief slot in the bolt head... like a Finn converting to 9x19mm.
And the extractor drops deeper into the bolt face to grab the little 223 case head.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
I bought this rifle back some ten or fifteen years ago for about $100.00. Great rifle. Seems like new, so I imagine it came out of the factory back in 1948 (that's when this one was made), then got put right into storage till being shipped to the US as war surplus. They are today going for about $350.00.
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So, now you can reenact Biathlon like it was in 1963. Okay, it won't work in Florida because of the lack of snow. Take a look at that video when a guy named Hanno Posti from Finland approaches the line at the shooting range. He has some history as a successful 10,000 m runner.
That is the most accurate Moisin I've ever seen. Well done.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Yeah, it's a little odd vs other kinds of triggers, in that there's a kind of stacking feel as you approach the wall, but then the break is quite crisp and light, to the point that it would sometimes surprise me when it let go.
That is the most accurate Moisin I've ever seen. Well done.
It's accuracy surprised the hell out of me. Even beat out my Swedish Mauser by a half inch at 100 yards.
Here's my 2.5 inch 100 yard group with my Swedish Mauser. And the lowest rear sight setting on the Swedish Mauser is 300 meters (100 meters on the Mosin Nagant), so they land quite high of point of aim at that distance. The Swedish Mauser has a nice crisp trigger too, but about a pound heavier.
Never mind if you cannot understand Hooke's law of spring forces, just read on.
The best trigger fix [adjust to 2 pounds trigger pull] for a Mosin is to buy the Timney for over $100.
But for free you can bend the sear/ trigger spring [4.5 pounds trigger pull and still have safe engagement].
Polishing the parts or installing a Hubber trigger have no measurable effect.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps