Recent content by Ryan P.

It was off that that I started thinking this way, but I couldn't find a good picture or diagram of how they installed the pin. Nor could I find someone who was selling a Finnish trigger for a buy-it-just-to-try-it kind of price. I would have had to be confident the Finish trigger was what I...

Since my other idea on tweaking the Mosin's safety in a different way than I had seen others try did not go as expected (A Different Mosin Safety Mod. Idea); it was a good learning experience that reached the desired end, just in a different way than expected... :) So I figured I would post...

New safety knob piece w/ a loop received and installed last night; pull force back up, as would be expected, to 24-25 lbs. I did a bit of polishing of the 2 surfaces that rub as its pulled back w/ 600-grit sandpaper and I got it to be a more consistent 24 lbs across 3 measurements. The safety...

Got to it; a lesson learned. Safety in open position. Safety in Locked position Safety Pocket is 4mm deep The Safety Finger is also 4mm before it tapers up So I marked and masked each to shorten them by 2mm; might be hard to see, but my notation says, "DON'T DO THIS!!" The sear face...

So I came to another realization last night that favors going ahead with this: I was previously examining just shortening the "finger" necessary to clear to get into the notch, but the matching finger on the knob itself is exactly the same length to fit the notch depth. Both the notch and the...

I'm toying with it and looking at it and I might STILL do it, even if the force reduction is minimal. Just cutting down the "throw" of the safety will be an improvement to me. For comparison of how much safety movement it takes to get my other guns from Safe to Fire: 1/8", overcoming a minor...

BCRider was spot-on; I defined my 0 as already cocked, which the firing pin spring is already compressed at that point. By adjusting my zero to when the firing pin is released it drops my graph slope from 144 lbs/in to ~39 lbs/in. But even THERE the firing pin spring is not at true zero...

That's the beauty, I think, it leaves the safety unchanged; its locks the firing pin exactly as it currently does, it just decreases the rear pull necessary to get it to turn into the lock. Now I am thinking the very small piece of exposed carbon steel this would create: about 3/32" long and...

Ahhhh! See, there's a real reason. Chrome plated...hmmmm. Now where did I read the bolt was SS? Hmm, who knows.

So in researching I found nobody thinks quite the way I think. :) The opinions on dealing with the difficulty of the Mosin-Nagant safety basically are; 1) Live with it, its a Mosin, part of the charm. 2) Don't use it, instead use your head, half-cocking, an empty chamber, etc. 3) Patch it...

New member: found this forum because the people on it were actually willing to talk about modifying firearms, specifically the Mosin-Nagant 91/30. Other Mosin forums I found had strict rules about the forum being for collecting and anything else was "Bubba-modding" the rifle. Weirdos. ;) I...