Mosin Upgrades
One of the world’s most popular bolt-action rifles is the Mosin Nagant. This old 19th century design renowned for its ability to take any punishment and keep on ticking had been brought into the 21st century through a number of recent upgrades and we’ve decided to take a look at them.
The Russian/Chinese/US/Finnish made Mosin rifle was manufactured from 1891-1960, to fire the hard-hitting 7.62x54R ammunition from a five shot internal magazine using a bolt-action. While there are dozens of variants ranging from the original M91 model (some of which were made by well known US companies like Remington) with its 30-inch long barrel to WWII era M44 carbines and Chinese orange-wood clones, these guns are inexpensive and widely available, with more than 48-million in circulation.
With the glut of these guns in the marketplace, most of which were arsenal refinished in the 1940s by heavy-handed Soviet Army armorers, their collectability is low with the exception of a few really nice early/rare guns. This means that you can readily upgrade these old shooters without having a lot of heartburn about ‘destroying a piece of history.’
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