Gun shop stories

One of the bed wetters from the Obama shop stopped in to Rhine last week. He was asking questions about where to advertise, etc. Then he noticed the SCAR in 308 on the wall.

"What is THAT. What do you use that for?"

Heh.

I do have to say, for all the talk of Mosins drying up, I've been finding better and better samples when I do find them. Not all beat to hell like some of the Chinese m44's that are out there.

Mosin Recoil Pad Review

Swung by the range Saturday to try out the custom modification to my 1943 Mosin-Nagant. I'm getting tired of sore shoulders after shooting, and this rifle seems to shoot well. I installed a Remington Supercell pad on it. PN 19471, meant for a wooden stocked 870/1100.

I also have this pad on an 870. I have a Limbsaver on my 500, but chose the Supercell primarily because I was going to hack the living crap out of it, and it was cheap. I've never liked the slip on pads, so this one was it. The wooden stock version is flat on the edge, and has some flex to match the Mosin.

Wow. Talk about recoil reduction. Blasted 20 rounds of Brown Bear 174 grain ammo as fast as I could get it back on target. I wasn't sitting there on the last five shots thinking, "okay, you masochistic SOB, why again are you shooting this thing again?" I highly doubt Remington will make one to custom fit the Mosin, but they should.

I don't think that I can sand this to fit. I don't see the advantage to doing much more to it, other than adding material at the top to keep the pad from catching on clothing









I melted the holes with a soldering iron, as the material is very resistant to the screws. The extra hole was me attempting to use measure once, cut twice method.















50 yard target- Darkotic targets are fairly waterproof, as it was raining while I was shooting. I wasn't the only one at the range in the rain, either. Just like I wasn't the only one shooting in 0 degree weather last winter.

Mosin unboxing

Unboxing a new to me Mosin.

What was that, you say? Lazy blogger, duplicate post?

Last video from yesterday.

I was just goofing around. Not the best video, but the non-ejecting thing shows up again- always on the last shot. I may try loading one round at a time and see if I can tell just where it fails at.

I did learn something yesterday- the Mac's iMovie thing would have nothing to do with the .mp4's from my cell camera. I read some vague cure on Macworld, lost interest, and did these in MSPaint Windows movie maker again. But I did find out that the Mac likes the heck out of the files on our real video camera. Next time, I will use that. Bring the tripod and be all fancy.

Range videos

Just of me shooting the Mosin. Partially to see if I'm doing it right. I wish I had video of the 11.5; I was running it pretty hard. Also had a pierced primer. It was either Winchester small rifle or CCI41- I figure the former.

 The third video, from a different perspective, is stuck in YouTube hell, I guess. I'll post it later.

You might be a gun nut

Is that the meme? I forget. Anyway.

Buying a $100 rifle, then picking up a $40 cleaning rod to clean it. Justifying that by the reasoning that at $100, you will pick up one or two more down the road......

Sunday gun pr0n

Found a gun today, a 1926 Mosin Nagant 91/30. Stopped by Jax in Ames after some Hickory Park and bowling/games* at Perfect Games. BS'ed with the counter guys for a while, grabbed some supplies, and was heading out when I saw a Mosin. The instant I saw it was a hex, I bought it. Just because. Sorry about the crappy pics, I didn't have a camera handy.

1926 Izhevsk Arsenal markings

Everything but clips.

No rust under the stock, unlike the M44 I've been 'borrowing'

Need to clean the cosmoline off and start shooting the heck out of it.

I also got the chance to fill out my first computerized 4473 form. Yay me.

* I lost to my 5 year old and my wife, not gonna live that down. Of course, you can imagine my preferred usage for bowling pins. But I won more tickets.