Choose your own adventure: Mosin edition

[Old Fart]

Duct tape and bailing wire it brother!

 

[n8thegr8]

Or just ask and I will send you one.
I am putting one of my guns in a Monti-carlo stock so I have extras
already took it out of the stock.

Donald

Dude! You're awesome! I'll send you a SASE and a couple bucks. Thanks!

 

[XD-9Guy]

Dude! You're awesome! I'll send you a SASE and a couple bucks. Thanks!

That's the right think to do, that Bubba version is NO BUENO

 

[n8thegr8]

That's the right think to do, that Bubba version is NO BUENO

Yeah, I seen some cut offs that still left enough to use the rear barrel band spring that looked pretty nice (kinda reminded me of a 10/22), but I'm pretty sure I'd rather keep it original. I'll be sending honeybee the return postage tomorrow for the spring (Thanks honeybee!). Sorry to disappoint dave, lol. I almost did it before these guys talked some sense into me. Even so, once it's finished I'll still go troll the 7.62x54r.net forums. Those guys take these mosins WAY too seriously...

 

[crispy]

me personally, i dont think the mosins look very good sporterized. but thats just me

 

[TheMcs]

Never should have even refinished the stock. Leave the Mosin as-is. Sporterized/Bubba'ed Mosins are fugly in my opinion. Given that, it's your rifle, do what you want to it.
Personally I'll never modify an historic firearm in any way that cannot be undone.

 

[Weatherby]

Hose clamps are cheap & look tacticool. You could hang a light/laser on that bad boy and you're ready for anything life throws at you.

 

[aestus]

Focus your inner bubba. It's what I did and my mosin ended up like this....

 

[n8thegr8]

holy dead thread batman!

I ended up stripping the stock of all the russian sweat and vodka and cosmoline from over the years, sanded to a glass smooth surface, and then hit it with several coats of tung oil for a nice blonde look. Next I'd like to polish the bolt and get the sights straightened out (or put a scout scope on, haven't decided)

I'll never understand the Mosin purists. It's an $80 2x4 that just so happens to fire bullets, not like I was trashing a garand or something.

 

[Maverick21]

Mosins look like crap no matter how dark the room is. Bubba it...