My Mosin-Nagant M91/30

I ordered a 1937 Mosin-Nagant M91/30 with original accessories & a round receiver from Classic Firearms. Since only people with a Federal Firearms-License (FFL) can receive guns in the mail & transfer them, I drove to a FFL an hour away to collect my Mosin-Nagant; there, a man let me handle & examine the rifle as he ran my background-check, after I completed a bureaucratic form to verify I could own a firearm. Then, I thanked him & drove an hour back to my residence.

The Mosin-Nagant exists as a Russian rifle, & studying Russian history & culture appeals to me; thus, I started teaching myself Russian. As shown in the following video, the Mosin-Nagant's discharge sounds loud; that noise & its bolt-action mechanisms prove fun, & its safety requires significant strength to activate & de-activation (which I prefer). Additionally, that rifle’s name is easy to pronounce (in Russian): винтовка Мосина Romanizes to vintovka Mosina. I enjoy adding hyphens between compound nouns, such as "house-call", "apple-tree", "bird-of-prey", "lawn-mower", "rain-forest", "self-esteem", "bus-stop", "junk-food", & "life-jacket"; so, typing the hyphen between the Russian surnames Mosin & Nagant appeals to me. Furthermore, I know trivia about the Mosin-Nagant from editing pages on Sniper-Elite's wikia (specifically the pages regarding Zombie-Army Trilogy): the USSR planned for the SVT-40 to replace the Mosin-Nagant as its Red Army's standard rifle, until Nazi Germany invaded Soviet Russia in 1941 via Operation Barbarossa & the USSR lost hundreds of thousands of SVT-40s before restarting production of Mosin-Nagants. The Mosin-Nagant's round (7.62×54mmR) sports the longest service-life of all military-issued cartridges in the world.

Mosin-Nagant:

New Batch of Mosin Rifles:

I also purchased five original WWII stripper-clips for loading the Mosin-Nagant's internal magazine, though I have yet to use them since I wish to master manually loading my rifle first.

To test my Mosin-Nagant, my father, brother, & I visited an outdoor range during its public availability on Sunday (10AM-3PM), & I paid $8 for unlimited time in lane 19, shooting at targets 50 & 100 yards away. The lane came with a tripod-scope & sand-bags; so, my brother watched through the scope as I shot, & we switched positions at the end of every hour during the Cease-Fire called over the intercom (when we collected our targets & the people there stapled new ones). Before we started (as we signed in), I paid $3 for safety-glasses. Each target costs $1, & we paid $13 at the end ($8 + 5 $1-targets), for a total of $16 that day. I brought my Mosin-Nagant 91/30 & my own ammo to shoot; one of the instructors helped me with it since he also owns a Mosin. He was both courteous & understanding, as it was my first time with that rifle. During that trip, I fired about 180 rounds.

I drove to that outdoor range over an hour away from my residence since all the indoor ranges in my immediate area don't allow rounds with steel cores or steel casings, & the Mosin-Nagant's round has both; I wrote about such in my review of that ammunition on Classic Firearms' website (see below). Serendipitously, that outdoor range I visited proved cheaper than the indoor ranges in my area whose lanes cost $15+ per hour to rent. Regarding the aforementioned review, I uploaded it & my review of the Mosin-Nagant M91/30 to Classic Firearms; after about a week, Classic Firearms published my reviews :

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Since people can include pictures with their reviews, I suspect Classic Firearms doesn't upload reviews until after about a week because it must verify people aren't posting inappropriate images with their reviews. As stated in that second review, the rifle I received came with matching serial numbers on the bolt, butt-plate, internal magazine, & receiver (though Classic Firearms clearly stated it could not guarantee matching serial numbers), & I spent one Saturday removing the cosmoline from the Mosin-Nagant & its bayonet, multi-tool set, & oil-flask (Щ | Н) with mineral-spirits, boiling water, tooth-brushes, & shop-towels. After WWII, the USSR feared war with the United States during the Cold War; so, it stored its millions of Mosin-Nagants in case it ever needed to arm its soldiers. To preserve those rifles, the USSR prepared massive vats of cosmoline (a greasy preservative akin to finish or polish) & dumped the Mosin-Nagants in them.

A random Mosin-Nagant's oil-flask with cosmoline:

My Mosin-Nagant's oil-flask clean of cosmoline:

Recently, I ordered several boxes of 7.62x54R from Tulammo (instead of Wolf) to see how those two products compare. Tulammo's rounds are cheaper but include higher shipping costs. One reason I plan to purchase a semi-automatic Ruger 10/22 Takedown as my next rifle exists as the fact that manufacturers produce 10MM rounds domestically (in the United States); so, I can purchase 10MM rounds for it whilst recycling money back into the United States' economy, instead of funneling funds overseas to a foreign country. Also, the Ruger 10/22 Takedown’s small .22LR ammunition costs considerably less ($0.114 per round) than the Mosin-Nagant 91/30’s large 7.62x54R imported from Russia ($0.42 per round).

My Mosin-Nagant M91/30 with its bayonet, manual, & sling, in my hard case: