Gun World 2. 01. 3 October by Sensei. Gun Review Mosin Nagant M9. The Truth About Guns. With our editors continued blessing, Ill be presenting reviews and profiles of exceptionally affordable yet dependable firearms. Aesthetically challenged guns that will never command a collectors premium. Guns that were often made by the tens of millions, in countries that either no longer exist or whose names cannot be pronounced by Western tongues. Guns that attract sneers and looking down the nose condescension from the bespoke shotgun crowd at your shooting range. Guns, in other words, for Cheap Bastards. Or, in this case, paranoid cheap bastards. If you find entertainment in marginally informed but strongly held opinions, youll never be bored with sports bars, talk radio and firearms bulletin boards. After interminable discussions of the best carry gun ever and is my AK clone 9. SHTF Shit Hits The Fan or WROL Without the Rule Of Law. When SHTF and society is WROL, it is opined, youll want a handy and reliable rifle at your side, as you try to survive or escape the ensuing Hobbesian jungle where life is nasty, brutish and short. Saxophone Quartet Sheet Music there. Where anarchy provides liberty only to the strong and ruthless. Lets add IMHO to this theoretical search for a SHTF WROL firearm that you can stash away for a very rainy day, along with several hundred rounds of ammo and a can of dessicant, for two or three Benjamins. I recommend the Mosin Nagant rifle as your new GBFF Gun Best Friend Forever. History. The Mosin Nagant rifle fought the enemies of the Russian and Soviet Rodina from the 1. The weapons history is a 7. The Russians used their Mosin Nagants against the Japanese, the Germans, their fellow Russians, neighboring Finns and, finally, more Germans and more Japanese. Shop from the worlds largest selection and best deals for Hunting Scope Mounts Accessories. Shop with confidence on eBay Laser Range Finders for hunting and target shooting. Burris, Bushnell, Leica, Leupold, Swarovski Rangefinders. Laser tests 800, 900, 1000, 1200, 1500 yards. Millirad. The Mosin Nagant earns no great distinction in having been used and abused by millions of illiterate peasant soldiers and Soviet conscripts. It wasnt the best all around infantry rifle of its time. Truth to tell, the Mauser 9. Lee Enfield would be superior SHTF rifles in almost every categoryexcept reliability and price. Nothing holds a candle to the Mosin Nagant when it comes to price and reliability. Its not just a beer budget blunderbuss. During World War Two, the Mosin Nagant was the weapon of choice and necessity of Soviet and Finnish snipers. These grim reapers of the eastern front used the Mosin Nagant to single handedly kill entire companies of enemy soldiers. Sniper Vasiliy Zaytsev, fictionalized in Enemy At The Gates, used scoped Mosin Nagants to snuff 2. Wehrmacht Soldaten in four months. His sniper girlfriend, Tania Chenaya, who may or may not have looked anything like Rachel Weisz gave at least 8. Germans a dirt nap with her own Mosin Nagants. Lyudmilla Pavlichenko was even more effective she and her Mosin Nagants had 3. Even these Russian die hards couldnt keep up with Finnish sniper Simo White Death Hayha. He killed 5. 05 Soviet soldiers in just 1. Winter War of 1. 93. Finnish made Mosin and its iron sights. Gangsta It may be ugly and antiquated, but a Mosin Nagant in the right hands and a target rich environment is a nine pound weapon of mass destruction. Today, Mosin Nagants are the Mother of All Budget Minded SHTF WROL WTF is that rifles. With perhaps 5. 0 million weapons rattling around worldwide, theyre cheap as chips. Big 5 will sell you a Mosin Nagant for 1. Prices are even better at gun shows and gun stores. 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Not every Mosin Nagant is worthy of your zombie panic room. Triggers run from good to hideous, as do their bores. Its important to buy a relatively good one from a rack full of candidates, if only because you can. If you go Mosin Nagant shopping at a gun show, youll have to convince the dealer to snip the zip tie so you can check the trigger and barrel. If its a busy gun show, hell have other, more profitable sales to chase. Dont be surprised if youre SHTF gun elicits a TILI Take It or Leave It. Preferably on a slow day. Theres nothing magic about picking a good Mosin Nagant. Find one with a nice bright bore that doesnt look too beat up and locks up tightly. Test for a decent trigger pull. Mosin Nagants have so few moving partstheres not too much else that can go wrong. Smith And Wesson Model 60 Trigger Pull Weight Gauge. As a bonus, many of them have been arsenal refinished. Dont worry about collector value. Unscoped Russian Mosin Nagants have less collector value than remaindered Stephen King paperbacks. Now what As were asking a new 7. Mosin Nagant to perform SHTF duty, youll need to function test it and sight it in before you oil it up and put it in storage with maybe a thousand rounds of ammo. Leupold Rifle Scope Serial Numbers' title='Leupold Rifle Scope Serial Numbers' />And hope youll never need it. Wheres the fun in thatOnce the Big Brown Truck drops off your crate of ammo, go ahead, make it pay. Blast holes in paper targets, tin cans and big game void where prohibited by law. If youre using steel core ammo, have a go at any metal plate less than. NB If youve loaded you Zombie Plague rifle with steel core bullets, keep in mind steel core bullets dont expand. All Leupold riflescopes are given an individual serial number. Counterfeit scopes often use a fake serial number, all identical serial numbers, or incorrect numbering. The Leupold Mark 4 line of tactical scopes has been a mainstay in the tactical scope market for over 30 years now. For many years Leupold probably had more high. Hint aim for the head. R ammo is cheap.  Russia and Eastern Europe produce hundreds of millions of rounds each year. An online bulk retailer will ship you a sealed 4. Compare that to the cost of commercial. Communist rifle has a strong Capitalist charm. This cheap ammo is no slouch, either. Depending on barrel length, the Mosin Nagant typically drives a 1. Some of the cartridges feature a mild steel bullet core. Its banned from some shooting ranges, itll punch holes in almost anything. CBs Cheap Bastards note surplus 7. R ammo is made with steel cases and Berdan type corrosive primers. No reloading for you. Another crucial tip corrosive primers require you to give the rifle a quick cleaning with Windex or another ammonia based cleaner promptly after shooting, followed by a regular cleaning with your favorite gun cleaner like CLP or Hoppes No. Cleaning a Mosin Nagant isnt difficult or terribly time consuming. But failure to do it even once can ruin the bore and trash the gun. Alternatively, you can buy non corrosive, non reloadable ammo from Wolf and Privi Partisan starting at 8. Ergonomics We Dont Need No Stinkin Ergonomics When it comes to shooting comfort and ergonomic controls, the Mosin Nagants got nothing. The nicest thing you can say about the club like stock is that youre not likely to break it by accident. It features a straight grip, a dismally short length of pull and a contusion inducing steel buttplate. The short pull length was meant to allow a proper hold while wearing incredibly bulky Russian winter uniforms. Whats good for Igor the Soviet Conscript sucks for you. If youre taller than 56 or if youre wearing normal clothing, youll have the bolt cocking piece nearly in your eye socketunless you attach a thick recoil pad. The butt end of the Mosin Nagant resembles a steel clad cudgel, destructible only by fire or chainsaw. If Barry Bonds tried to snap one over his knee like a misbehaving Louisville Slugger, hed be carried off the field with a shattered and protruding femur. Like most of its contemporaries, the Mosin Nagant sports a clumsy bolt handle that sticks straight out from the receiver at 3 oclock, instead of bending gracefully downward. Its ugly and awkward doing exactly nothing to improve the slightly balky cock on opening action.