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Was inquiring on if someone has ever modified a Mosin Nagant magazine so it would be flush to the underside of the stock?

Over the years I have purchased bare receivers and stocks and would like to make a custom rifle out of the parts. Not a Bubba job but a tasteful example. I have several original examples and would not modify a piece of history, but in this case they are just parts. I have never been a fan of the “pot belly” magazine on these rifles and if I was going to do this I would like to keep the single stack mag ( due to the rimmed cartridge) thus reducing the round capacity from 5 to 3 with a flush mount design.

Anyone have any pointers or seen this done before? I have seen a few examples on the web but not really clear if they worked

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I have modified two mosins to extract the [too long] 300WM and 7mmRM cartridges. I call it the "ejector override button".
I also modified the magazines to fit the wider shoulders.

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The button is on the left side of the receiver.

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Pretty good modification. ClarkM, do you have any more pics of your rifle. I think Russ Potterfield did a modification on a Mosin Nagant years ago but, I never saw how it looked when it was finished.

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Hello Clark,

I am also a Mosin Modifier so to speak, I have built several of them:

6.5x54R
30-40 Krag Ackley Improved
6.5 PRC
30.x54R Improved
And I have the barrel in the lathe right now for a 7x65R

I like your mod you did on the interrupter, Very cool! I true the actions and the bolt heads and I bush the firing pin holes and turn the firing pins to match.

Future builds I have most of the parts for:

25 Krag Ackley
45-70
405 Winchester

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some pics

Here is a mandrel I made for truing the face, And a bolt head I did.
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I can't seem to post pics right?

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This is in regard to the OP's question, An old Gunsmith named "Reid Coffield" Built a mosin sporter with a flush magazine, It was in the gun rags. He did a nice job, He also moved the bolt handle rearward which I have also done. I am building a Mosin in 7x65R right now and I am going to have to figure out how to get it to feed or have to settle on a single shot. My 30-40 Krag ackley mosin was a little tough to get it to feed but I did manage to get it feeding well though.

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I made two of these mandrels, One for pre WW2 actions with the internal C-ring and one for post WW2 and later rec without it.
The rifle is a .30x54R Improved 40 degree, The parent cartridge on right, Left one is 7.62x54R Peterson Brass trimmed to Lapua Length and fireformed to .30x54R. The one on the right is a 7.62x53R Lapua case with 10 firings on it so far.

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Harry, is that a real name or a handle, like "Anita DeGroyne"?


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