Mosin Nagant 2x4 Club

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I finally became a member of the 2X4 club this past weekend.

60 rounds in about 15 minutes and the bolt would not budge. Actually it was beat open with a 4x4. About 10 rounds later after a short cooling off period and it stuck again. The gun was hot as fire. I got that bolt open and called it a day for the M44.

Can't wait to shoot it again next time, but maybe with a slower rate of fire

Anyone else have any stories?
 
pull the cocking knob back. Open it as much as you can. Then bounce the cleaning rod off the casing by dropping it down the bore (with a litte authority), and usually the bolt will unstick itself after 5-6 knocks. If that doesn't work, I usually bash the bolt handle against the side of the shooting table.

The big thing is to cock it, so that you are not also fighting spring tension. O h yeah. Be sure to recover your cleaning rod BEFORE you shoot the next round.
 
Clean the chamber with Jasco varnish remover.



I shoot 10 different Mosins with Polish, Bulgarian, 2 kinds of Czech... nothing sticks anymore.

But before I got wise, when sticky bolt occurred, I'd pull back the cocking knob, then open the bolt. Much easier.
 
OK, this is an easy fix. Get a cordless drill, a cleaning rod, and a 20ga bronze brush. Spray the chmaber area with your favorite degreaser, and "drill" the snot out of it for a while. Clean normally. take the entire assemblage to the range, (hence, the cordless), fire 5 rounds, douse and "drill" again, clean normally, and you should be good. Worked well on both my Mosins...which I may end up selling...
 
Anyone else have any stories?
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You need to get yourself a big Finn M-39 and take it out to the range on the coldest day of the year, in the snow and ice. Or even better take it into the woods. There's something deeply fun about shooting down frozen spruce trees with a Mosin in January. Just remember to angle your shots down into known earth so you don't start any wars. And also so the tree will fall away from you. Though I enjoy going up to the tree after it's been torn up and beating it down with the buttplate.
 
If cleaning the chamber doesn't work, make sure the ramping surfaces of the bolt are smooth. Some are very rough and make the process of re-cocking/opening the bolt unnecessarily difficult.

It that fails just get a mauser and give me your mosin.
 
People ask me about the hammer in my range bag:rolleyes: Most of the time that gunk in the chamber is dried cosmoline, firing about 5 rounds or so with melt in and you can clean it out with a rag or cloth, repeat until bolt doesn't stick.
 
Cosmoline in the chamber or action is not the cause of my sticky bolt. Nor is any rough finish. That thing is as clean and smooth as a brand as a new car.
I figure the rifle got way hot and the metal was expanding making it overly tight.

I gotta remember the thing about pulling the cocking knob back.

60 rounds in 15 minutes? Wow!
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Was that a dig? I am confused.
 
Yeah, I go an hour or two on about 40 rounds. Unless I'm using the short-range ammo, then I burn through a lot more.

I'm like threejs, I just bang it on the shooting table, if necessary.
RT
 
Usually after 5-10 rounds my mosin tends to stick. I just hit the handle with my palm a few times and it's good to go, and if that doesn't work I threaten it with my size 16 boots and try again:neener:.


Man I love that rifle and wouldn't trade it for any firearm in the world.
 
Gotta love the sticky bolt syndrome.

I was at the range at Don's guns downtown Indy, and this black guy and his girl friend were a few stalls down from me. As soon as I started shooting the lady got this real terrified look on her face, and was like *** was that. This prompted the guy to come over wide eyed looking to see what I was shooting. I quickly explained what I was shooting and offered him a few rounds to shoot. He shot one round and quickly gave it back to me, and said to his girlfriend, "now that is a man's gun". They went back to their stall to shoot his Ruger P9- something. Every now and then I would glance over at them and the lady would flinch every time I would shoot. The whole time I was just laughing to myself.
 
A 2lb rubber coated dead blow hammer works great! Start shooting brass case ammo and your troubles will go away.
 
Gotcha Deehunter, no dig :)

There were a couple of guys shooting clays and there were three others of us screwing around shooting at their misses or even shooting at the clays. Thats is why the rapid rate of fire.

Normally when we get together for shoots I will not even put 60 rounds through the M44 but I got kind of carried away Saturday. My total out of it for the afternoon might have been 100 rounds.

I really think the heat got to be too much for it. It was a lot of fun anyway.
 
think id be crazy if i wore my red star T shirt, red star knitted hat, and took my pile of t53's to the range?!
 
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