Hi all,
I'm new both to the mosin nagant and this board and just wanted to introduce myself and ask a couple of questions. I recently bought 2 M91's one is a Finnish "B" barrel and the other is a russian build from 1915. I have cleaned both rifles thoroughly and they look to be in pretty good shape. Having done this I made a trip to a local to gunsmith to get the headspacing checked and not much to my surprise he didn't have the gauges for the 7.62x54r. However, he did look the rifles over and attempted to chamber a round and said everything looked ok but recommended that I tie them to something and fire about 8 rds through them with a string on the trigger... It may just be me but I found it much easier just to drop the 26 dollars for the no-go headspace gauge which I am eagerly anticipating its arrival
. My question is will this be sufficient testing or should I still do as he recommended? And also what is the best ammunition to use? Right now I have one pack of Albanian from '85 and I have some Bulgarian coming in that I have no information on at the moment.
Thanks,
Matt
I'm new both to the mosin nagant and this board and just wanted to introduce myself and ask a couple of questions. I recently bought 2 M91's one is a Finnish "B" barrel and the other is a russian build from 1915. I have cleaned both rifles thoroughly and they look to be in pretty good shape. Having done this I made a trip to a local to gunsmith to get the headspacing checked and not much to my surprise he didn't have the gauges for the 7.62x54r. However, he did look the rifles over and attempted to chamber a round and said everything looked ok but recommended that I tie them to something and fire about 8 rds through them with a string on the trigger... It may just be me but I found it much easier just to drop the 26 dollars for the no-go headspace gauge which I am eagerly anticipating its arrival
Thanks,
Matt