Mosin-Nagants

[Lj1941]

Aim Surplus has 91/30's available again. Their prices are creeping up like everything else.:banghead:
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.a...agant+Rifle+with+Bayonet&groupid=256&fprdct=1

 

[NCsmitty]

Still the best value for the buck. Rugged, usually reliable, and often decently accurate if the barrel is not rotted out, and the ammo is still a bargain.
What's not to like?


NCsmitty

 

[bhhacker]

The fact that i cant ever find any company willing to ship ammo up to Alaska so i cant justify buying one :banghead:

 

[winchester1886]

Maybe you could reload your own!

 

[Jeff H]

Maybe you could reload your own!

Kind of defeats the point of cheap Russian ammo if you have to buy more expensive PPU and reload it for the purpose of having cheap blasting ammo. Reload PPU for accuracy, not for blasting ammo.

 

[bhhacker]

Haha thats true but one difficult task at a time! I am working on reloading my own 30-06 stuff right now.


Finding powder and primers here is pretty impossible currently. No one ships to alaska with hazardous stuff and shipping for a case of 880 rounds costs more than the ammo itself.

 

[MagnumWill]

Honestly, Mosins are like their own currency. Their price almost adjusts with inflation I could really use one or six more.

 

[caribou]

hbhacker, you need to drop Lynden a line, as everything is, can and will be shipped here to AK, as well, a barge might get it to you cheaper. My mom and bro live in Sitka and are active shooters, and they get it barged from Seattle.
Lynden flys all cargo to Juneau.
http://www.lynden.com/

Just have the ammo seller send it to your forwarding shipping company, UPS drops it off and the people there do the paper work and send it on.

for me, shipping is 65% of the price on most everything, from socks to gasoline (8$ a gallon)

Someday, when its possible, a 20 rifle crate of Mosins will be in order and delivery will kill me in the end ~~LOL!!~~

Mosin's are worth it!!

 

[Joshua M. Smith]

Cheap Russian ammo defeats the purpose of cheap Russian ammo.

That stuff had very poor quality control. In fact, a friend who had terrible precision with his Mosin pulled his ammo down and couldn't find a bullet or charge that weighed the same as another.

The exceptions to the milsurp ammo rule are 7n1 (near impossible to find now, and expensive) and Czech silver-tipped.

The rest, groups can be shrunk by at least 25% with handcrafted ammo. My Mosin is a working rifle and, as such, I require precision from it. I owe it to critters I dispatch.

This is the genesis for the mods I've developed and/or researched from the Finns, and the reason I only handload for the Mosin anymore.

Regards,

Josh

 

[nwilliams]

$119 for a 91/30 is still a hell of a bargain for such a great rifle, there really is no other rifle in the price range that can compete.

It's amazing to me how M44 prices have skyrocketed! I remember just a few years ago you could get them for under $100 now it seems you are lucky to find a good example of one for under $200!

 

[leadcounsel]

Great rifles

I bought my first one used from a friend for $50 in 2007. A 38.

Got "Mosin-itis" bug, and bought several rifles and carbines for between $70-100 each.

Not surprised at the price increases, but wish I had bought more.

 

[winchester1886]

I had a Lyman mold that dropped a 190gr. Spire Point bullet with a gas check. Out of the mold it was .312" at 75 yards it shot a pretty good group. I made the bullets out of wheel weights and Tin that I got from Midway.I developed this load just in case things got tight

 

[justice06rr]

I was gonna pick up the Hex receivers but they are now out of stock. Bummer.

Still good prices for the regular 91/30's.

 

[herrwalther]

Still a pretty good price for a what appears to be in good shape 91/30s. Now finding a 91/59 M38 or M44 for the same price and I will buy quiet a few. I am a short guy and would like a rifle not almost as tall as I am

 

[TrickyDick]

The exceptions to the milsurp ammo rule are 7n1 (near impossible to find now, and expensive) and Czech silver-tipped.

I had bought a 700 round case of Czech silver tip over 5 years ago for $126 tax included. I have like 3 rounds left. Didn't realize how special it was when I bought it. They were 147 gr, and My PSL wouldn't cycle them at first, so I fed it a box of Winchester whitebox, then it ate everything after that.