Want a single-shot .22 Mini Mosin? You could be in luck
Keystone Arms in Pennsylvania has long made a line of single-shot scaled down Crickett and Chipmunk series .22LRs of the “my first rifle” type.
Taking a page from that book, they now intend to make a series of pint-sized classic reproductions of famous military rifles, starting with the Mosin 91/30.
Instead of the shoulder-bruising 7.62x54R chambering and 29-inch barrel, Keystone’s Mini will be a single-shot .22LR rimfire with a more youth-accommodating 20-inch barrel.
It’s not too far off of an idea. In Poland, Radom made the Wz-48 training rifle at the Lucznik plant between 1948 and 1960. Designed to emulate the M38/44 Mosin-Nagant, it was a single-shot .22 used to train Polish youth for military service. A bunch of Wz-48s flooded into the country a few years ago after Warsaw surplused them, but they soon got snapped up in the $200-$275 range and their prices have gone up since then.
More on the Mini Mosin in my column at Guns.com