'45 Izzy M44

[Krull]

Well I did a little horse trading with oldironsights,had a MkIV enfield that I got in pieces and decided I'd like to have a Mosin,at first I just wanted a M44 or M38 and he contacted me that he had a M44 we could swap....that kinda turned into a sporter I got from the local shop for some cash I had coming from his son after selling some old stuff to him.

Then I ran into that 91/30 which turned out to be an ex-sniper~surps are like that,no? one becomes many!

Anyway me and,may I call him Clay? did a swap,I got the M44 Izzy and he got the 1950's MkIV barreled action and stock (I still own him the bayo-which I need to find,it's amongst my things somewhere) and some parts that came with it,better then 50% of the rifle I'd say at a guess.

Sorry about the pic,I'll get some good ones outside tomorrow when the sun's up.



I did fire off a few shots tonight,a Mosin carbine at night is less like a rifle and more akin to a cannon! huge fireball and one hell of a racket! but gawd is it fun!

Oh and I got the tin of ammo from Dunham's today.

[oldironsights]

Glad you like it!
It has a very smooth action for a Mosin & a crisp trigger.
Did you say your laminated 91/30 is an ex-sniper?

[Krull]

This thing is a blast-literally! if you miss and you're close enough you'll just set them afire

As to the 91/30 have a look:



I guess I could re-sniper it......

[oldironsights]

Did you see my Re-sniper I just finished last week?

[Niner]

That looks terrific Clayton. Notice that the lens cover strap goes through the circle in the mount. I've seen photos of originals that were just hanging loose but my reproduction is done this way and I don't see why the originals didn't do this to begin with. Or maybe the scopes weren't matched to the rifles that I saw photos of.

Looks like you got it zeroed for sure. Did you put any locktight on the screws to keep it zeroed? Mine drift out of zero. I need to do something about that.

[Krull]

Nice Mosin there,I've seen places that make a repro mount but offer one in standard one inch-if I was to do a re-sniper I might cheat a bit and put a modern 4X scope on in place of the PU scope.

Those old ones are both rare and somewhat hard to deal with since I like to put my guns to use.

We shall see.....