Mosin Accuracy: Why Shims Work One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the Mosin-Nagant is that accuracy is determined solely by the barrel. It isn't. If it were, the Finns wouldn't have spent so much time shimming and bedding their rifles. The Mosin-Nagant action sits in a wooden stock. Wood...

Savage MkII 800px.jpg For various reasons I don't want to glass bed my Savage MkII. I'm not sure I'll stick with this stock, and, in my work with Mosins, I find that minimal receiver to stock contact provides the best repeatability. I'm experimenting to see if that'll carry over to rimfire; I think...

So Niner, are you wanting to drive traffic here? What is your goal?

The Mosin bolt is meant to be fitted. During refurbishment, it often wasn't and this led to hard to impossible bolt operation. What is really a very robust rifle gained a bad reputation in the West for this, and other malfitment, reasons. https://i.postimg.cc/xdjcGB7W/cam-3.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/...

I tried to see if I could coax guests to post by requiring membership in the message board to read the forum material. Much of what is here goes back 20 years and shows the progression of milsurp collecting in a timeline that isn't easily found elsewhere on the internet. Some of the information her...

From how long ago? I got busy and didn't get anything milsurp for a bit, and recently for back in to of a little. New-to-me Steyr m95 that seems to have no import stamp, and I'm gearing up to start making ammo for it.

Hi Guys, I have Mauser parts that I'm trying to identify. 1. An ejector. I'm thinking 93/95. Why wouldn't it fit an 1891 Argentine, though? (That's cosmoline, not rust.) http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o560/Smith-Sights/parts/93%2095%20Mauser%20ejector.jpg 2. Floor plate. What model? 1909? http:...

I tried one as a compliment to what I do. I just can't get used to peep sights that far forward. I mean, they're well made, but both the Mojo and this one have the same problem of being too far forward for my liking. I've come to prefer the stock rear sight with the notch worked over with a 2mm diam...

Hello, I don't have this carbine any longer. I wish I did. It was an Izhevsk M44 made in 1944. What finally drove me to sell it was that it had canted sights. All pictures are c. 2007-2008, about four years prior to the founding of Smith-Sights. I knew nothing about these rifles at the time and only...

Be aware that these receivers are HARD. You'll need carbide.

Regards,

Josh