![]() Gun Review: Mosin- Nagant M9. The Truth About Guns. With our editor’s continued blessing, I’ll be presenting reviews and profiles of exceptionally affordable yet dependable firearms. Aesthetically- challenged guns that will never command a collector’s premium. Guns that were often made by the tens of millions, in countries that either no longer exist or whose names cannot be pronounced by Western tongues. Guns that attract sneers and looking- down- the- nose condescension from the bespoke shotgun crowd at your shooting range. Guns, in other words, for Cheap Bastards. Or, in this case, paranoid cheap bastards. If you find entertainment in marginally informed but strongly- held opinions, you’ll never be bored with sports bars, talk radio and firearms bulletin boards. After interminable discussions of “the best carry gun ever” and “is my AK clone 9. A good Mosin can shoot 3″ groups at 100 yards with surplus ammo—if you’ve got better eyes than mine. A bad one won’t keep five shots on a Domino’s pizza box. In 2010, guns took the lives of 31,076 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more. NEW JERSEY: A recent law that limits an individual to one handgun purchase a month is among the most restrictive gun laws in the US. The state also has. The Gun Videos site is a collection of the best shooting and gun videos. Promoting the gun culture, one video at a time! NZ extending deployment in Iraq for 18 months. John Key admits it is a change in position after originally saying it would only be for two years. SHTF (Shit Hits The Fan)В or WROL (Without the Rule Of Law). When SHTF and society is WROL, it is opined, you’ll want a handy and reliable rifle at your side, as you try to survive or escape the ensuing Hobbesian jungle where life is “nasty, brutish and short.” Where anarchy provides liberty only to the strong and ruthless. Let’s add IMHO to this theoretical search for a SHTF WROL firearm that you can stash away for a very rainy day, along with several hundred rounds of ammo and a can of dessicant, for two or three Benjamins. I recommend the. В Mosin- Nagant rifle as your new GBFF (Gun Best Friend Forever). One In The Gun 2010 MovieOne In The Gun 2010 NovamovHistory. The Mosin- Nagant rifle fought the enemies of the Russian and Soviet Rodina from the 1. The weapon’s history is a 7. The Russians used their Mosin- Nagants against the Japanese, the Germans, their fellow Russians, neighboring Finns and, finally, more Germans and more Japanese. The Mosin- Nagant earns no great distinction in having been used and abused by millions of illiterate peasant soldiers and Soviet conscripts. It wasn’t the best all- around infantry rifle of its time. Truth to tell, the Mauser 9. Lee- Enfield would be superior SHTF rifles in almost every category—except reliability and price. Ugh. I wan’t one of those so bad. I bet G.W. shot his. He seems to be interested in guns, and that is a pretty amazing one to have. Reply. Access to news older than two years is reserved for registered members only. Membership benefits • Free access to our extensive archive of millions of news. Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about gun control. Learn about ownership rates, crime, background checks, accidents, politics, and more. United States gun and firearm killing data visualization by Periscopic. I can’t say that this is a bad gun but I do not prefer it over my Glocks. This is a great weapon but I would not use this as my main duty weapon. Nothing holds a candle to the Mosin- Nagant when it comes to price and reliability. It’s not just a beer- budget blunderbuss. During World War Two, the Mosin- Nagant was the weapon of choice (and necessity) of Soviet and Finnish snipers. These grim reapers of the eastern front used the Mosin- Nagant to single- handedly kill entire companies of enemy soldiers. Sniper Vasiliy Zaytsev, fictionalized in “Enemy At The Gates,” used scoped Mosin- Nagants to snuff 2. Wehrmacht Soldaten in four months. His sniper girlfriend, Tania Chenaya, (who may or may not have looked anything like Rachel Weisz) gave at least 8. Germans a dirt nap with her own Mosin- Nagants. Lyudmilla Pavlichenko was even more effective: she and her Mosin- Nagants had 3. Even these Russian die- hards couldn’t keep up with Finnish sniper Simo “White Death” Hayha. He killed 5. 05 Soviet soldiers in just 1. Winter War of 1. 93. Finnish- made Mosin and its iron sights. Gangsta! It may be ugly and antiquated, but a Mosin- Nagant in the right hands (and a target- rich environment) is a nine- pound weapon of mass destruction. Today, Mosin- Nagants are the Mother of All Budget- Minded SHTF WROL WTF is that rifles. With perhaps 5. 0 million weapons rattling around worldwide, they’re cheap as chips. Big 5 will sell you a Mosin- Nagant for $1. Prices are even better at gun shows and gun stores. My own M4. 4 carbine, IIRC, cost a whopping $6. Your mileage may vary. The Trick to Training a Dog? Buy the right dog. Not every Mosin- Nagant is worthy of your zombie panic- room. Triggers run from good to hideous, as do their bores. It’s important to buy a [relatively] good one from a rack full of candidates, if only because you can. If you go Mosin- Nagant shopping at a gun show, you’ll have to convince the dealer to snip the zip- tie so you can check the trigger and barrel. If it’s a busy gun show, he’ll have other, more profitable sales to chase. Don’t be surprised if you’re SHTF gun elicits a TILI (Take It or Leave It). Preferably on a slow day. There’s nothing magic about picking a good Mosin- Nagant. Find one with a nice bright bore that doesn’t look too beat- up and locks up tightly. Test for a decent trigger pull. Mosin- Nagants have so few moving parts—there’s not too much else that can go wrong. As a bonus, many of them have been arsenal- refinished. Don’t worry about “collector value.” Unscoped Russian Mosin- Nagants have less collector value than remaindered Stephen King paperbacks. Now what? As we’re asking a new (7. Mosin- Nagant to perform SHTF duty, you’ll need to function- test it and sight it in before you oil it up and put it in storage with maybe a thousand rounds of ammo. And hope you’ll never need it. Where’s the fun in that? Once the Big Brown Truck drops off your crate of ammo, go ahead, make it pay. Blast holes in paper targets, tin cans and big game (void where prohibited by law). If you’re using steel- core ammo, have a go at any metal plate less than . В [NB: If you’ve loaded you Zombie Plague rifle with steel- core bullets, keep in mind steel core bullets don’t expand. Hint: aim for the head.]7. R ammo is cheap. В Russia and Eastern Europe produce hundreds of millions of rounds each year. An online bulk retailer will ship you a sealed 4. Compare that to the cost of commercial . Communist rifle has a strong Capitalist charm. This cheap ammo is no slouch, either. Depending on barrel length, the Mosin- Nagant. В typically drives a 1. Some of the cartridges feature a mild- steel bullet core. It’s banned from some shooting ranges, it’ll punch holes in almost anything. CBs (Cheap Bastards) note: surplus 7. R ammo is made with steel cases and Berdan- type corrosive primers. No reloading for you. Another crucial tip: corrosive primers require you to give the rifle a quick cleaning with Windex or another ammonia- based cleaner promptly after shooting, followed by a regular cleaning with your favorite gun cleaner like CLP or Hoppe’s No. Cleaning a Mosin- Nagant isn’t difficult or terribly time- consuming. But failure to do it even once can ruin the bore and trash the gun. Alternatively, you can buy non- corrosive, non- reloadable ammo from Wolf and Privi Partisan starting at $8. Ergonomics? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ergonomics! When it comes to shooting comfort and ergonomic controls, the Mosin- Nagant’s got nothing. The nicest thing you can say about the club- like stock is that you’re not likely to break it by accident. It features a straight grip, a dismally short length of pull and a contusion- inducing steel buttplate. The short pull length was meant to allow a proper hold while wearing incredibly bulky Russian winter uniforms. What’s good for Igor the Soviet Conscript sucks for you. If you’re taller than 5’6″ or if you’re wearing normal clothing, you’ll have the bolt cocking piece nearly in your eye socket—unless you attach a thick recoil pad. The butt end of the Mosin- Nagant resembles a steel- clad cudgel, destructible only by fire or chainsaw. If Barry Bonds tried to snap one over his knee like a misbehaving Louisville Slugger, he’d be carried off the field with a shattered and protruding femur. Like most of its contemporaries, the Mosin- Nagant sports a clumsy bolt handle that sticks straight out from the receiver at 3 o’clock, instead of bending gracefully downward. It’s ugly and awkward; doing exactly nothing to improve the slightly balky cock- on- opening action. The Mosin- Nagant isn’t buttery- smooth like a Lee- Enfield, or a masterpiece of clockwork German engineering like a Mauser. It is what it is: strong, ugly, cheap and functional. I Spit on Your Safety! The. Mosin- Nagant’s В ‘safety’ mechanism isn’t just clumsy; it’s a useless failure. Engaging it requires griping a small, slippery cocking piece on the rear of the bolt and pulling it back with 2. Disengaging it requires the same knuckle- crushing manipulation in reverse. This is challenging for iron- fingered rock climbers, difficult for mortal men and completely impossible for those with arthritis, gloves or cold fingers. Unless you go aftermarket, a Mosin’s only ‘safety’ mechanism is an empty chamber, or removing the bolt and carrying it in your pocket. Hindsight is 2. 0/2. Mosin- Nagants don’t do too badly in the sighting department. Its robust open sights are optimistically calibrated out to 1. The carbine models (M3. M4. 4) are more challenging to shoot well because of their shorter sight radii, but benefit from much quicker handling. Aperture sights? Nyet. Scope attachment? Nyet. But M4. 4s do come with a permanently attached side- folding bayonet which can stab your left middle finger if you grip the stock the wrong way. Recoil. Perceived recoil depends on the type of Mosin you’re shooting. Without a recoil pad, carbine- length M3. M4. 4s kick like a short barreled 1. Or maybe like a featherweight . Whelen. Either way, the undersized stock and the steel buttplate don’t help things. You’ll want a beefy recoil pad which adds perhaps an inch of pull to the stock. Long- barreled 9. Accuracy. I’ve fired many hundreds of rounds through various Russian Mosin- Nagants, long and short, with iron sights and scout scopes. Not all of them were guns I would have bought; some had horrid triggers and some had rough bores. A good Mosin can shoot 3″ groups at 1. A bad one won’t keep five shots on a Domino’s pizza box. Family size. My own M4. The Mosin- Nagant isn’t a. В tack- driver. Buut it handles quickly and points instinctively and hits what you aim it at (if your target’s big enough). I’d like to spend more range time with a scoped 9. Mosin- Nagant can do from the bench with optics. But then . . . reliable, accurate or cheap. You’ve already chosen two. Reliability. You will not find a more rugged or reliable firearm on earth. Other than poor triggers and mistreated barrels, which you’ll discover before purchasing, the only common functional flaw is difficult extraction once the gun heats up. This is usually caused by baked- in cosmoline in the chamber.
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