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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #243182 - 02/03/14 01:04 AM

You have find a special "Finnish touch" to yours rifles style: specially made high quality wooden stock and then Picatinny rail attached. That kind of mixed "style" is very typical for finnish Mosin builders. By the the way; russian type bent bolt handle do not belong to finnish SAKO -made Mosins.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #243184 - 02/03/14 05:08 AM

The bolt handle is only temporary . I have a really nice low swept bolt handle that I am having done right now . I used this sniper bolt for test purpose only . I am not even sure about the rail but I do like the access of it with double lever rings


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #243852 - 15/03/14 08:47 PM

a rare 6,3x53R sporter for sale in finland


http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=1340

9,3x53R with side mount and scope



http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=1334

a 7x53R, also a more rare wildcat



http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=1245

Winchester 95 in 8,2x53R



http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=1327

a typical 7,62x53R





http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=1206

Winchester 95 in 9,3x53R



http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=936

and another Winchester 95 in 9,3x53R



http://www.pyssypuoti.fi/kauppa/product_details.php?p=842





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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #243903 - 16/03/14 07:28 PM

Yes, we don´t have any lack of those old Mosins and Mod. 95 Winchesters´s.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #243907 - 16/03/14 09:41 PM

these winchesters are real sleeper but I like especially the 6,3x53R on top
it have an absolute fantastic nordic birch stock

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #243931 - 17/03/14 08:23 AM

I can't wait to get my Finnish Mosin sporter finished . I have contracted a logger in Northern Wisconsin who specializes in blanks of Arctic Flame Birch from the Northern areas of Michigan , Wisconsin and Minnesota which have large expanses of Birch forest. I have 4 more high grade Arctic Flame Birch gunstock blanks right now and a project to duplicate Tikka Master Sporter stock for a Mosin will be in the works shortly as I finish up the first project .

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #243964 - 18/03/14 05:44 AM

just post for making "view" number - 60000 -


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #244736 - 01/04/14 02:54 AM

Lancaster,

Those are some amazing and rare rifles in chamberings that are alien to me, and, I suspect, to many more people here. Is there any compilation of the various wildcats / proprietary rounds on the Mosin Nagant case? I only knew about the 7.62 Mosin and I saw just one 9mm Meved rifle many years ago when I worked briefly in Russia. This is just academic interest. Would be good to have this information on the forums, though.

Thanks in advance, and good hunting!

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #244739 - 01/04/14 04:20 AM

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Is there any compilation of the various wildcats / proprietary rounds on the Mosin Nagant case?



Read Gun Digest 54th edition, 2000, page 106: "Children of the 7.62x54R" by Janne Pohojoispää, describing 5.7x53R, 6.3x53R, 7x53R, 8.2x53R, 9x53R, 9.3x53R, 9.5x53R, .416x53R and 11.6x53R.


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: kuduae]
      #244740 - 01/04/14 05:15 AM

All of those calibers has been done but three biggest ones are very late versions and very seldom seen.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #244741 - 01/04/14 06:05 AM

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Lancaster,

I only knew about the 7.62 Mosin and I saw just one 9mm Meved rifle many years ago




the russian 9mm cartridge is just the russian designation for what is in fact the russian version of the 9,3x53R.
so it have not the .358 bullet diameter but a .365 diameter bullet what is compatible with the common .366 diameter.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #244755 - 01/04/14 09:06 AM

Kuduae / Igorrock / Lancaster,

Thank you very much! I bought a complete set of Gun Digest annuals some time ago and will check. Should be a most interesting topic to read up on.

Good hunting!

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #248324 - 02/06/14 09:36 AM

The Sako Mannerheim rifle is almost complete .Only the stock checkering remains. The first piece of Arctic Birch I was to use was a bit green ,so I clamped it into another M39 for the summer to dry. Fortunately I now have a supplier of Arctic flame Birch so another stock was made ,pillar and glass bedded. I finally contoured and matted a weaver rail for my low profile scope mount. I plan to do another Finnish Mosin this summer in 9.3x53R Finnish. I used Tung oil for the stock finish.


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #248342 - 02/06/14 06:16 PM

Stock looks very nice. I hope you don´t let those numbers be white, it makes cheap outlook to yours rifle.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #248364 - 03/06/14 02:51 AM

the artic flame birch is absolut fantastic
it looks like its living and reminds me on such opical illusion







great to hear about another 9,3x53R project but where did you get a chamber reamer?

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #248379 - 03/06/14 06:23 AM

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the artic flame birch is absolut fantastic
it looks like its living and reminds me on such opical illusion







great to hear about another 9,3x53R project but where did you get a chamber reamer?



The Arctic Flame Birch is incredible wood.It tactually changes color as you look at the stripes from different angles dark becomes light and light becomes dark. Magical. The fellow that does my reboring has a 9.3x53R (Finnish) reamer.He does excellent work. I am not starting work until late summer though as I have to round up original Sako parts such as sights,cocking piece ,extractor ect.I dont want to harm an original Sako M39 .I was very fortunate to find this rifle as it had already been converted to a sporter with shortened barrel and plastic stock.Even so it took me quite a while because Mannerheims Sako is a 1943 date.


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: lancaster]
      #248406 - 03/06/14 08:19 PM

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You no longer like double rifles

and want to sell yours to NitroX for a glass of beer.






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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #248834 - 12/06/14 04:31 AM

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You have find a special "Finnish touch" to yours rifles style: specially made high quality wooden stock and then Picatinny rail attached. That kind of mixed "style" is very typical for finnish Mosin builders.



Initial zero and accuracy test with Iron sights was excellent. Used my Finnish match load of 40.0 grains VVN140 powder ,Lapua cases and a Lapua D-166 200 grain .3095 bullet ,velocity 2,340 fps . I have shot this load with sub moa angle at 600 with my Finnish M39 sniper rifle so I know it is accurate.I slugged my bore and it was right at .3095 . I shot all tests groups at 100 from sitting and prone with a Rucksack which I use hunting. I also had no problem breaking clay birds at 200 on the side of a hill standing position. I will do further testing with hunting loads at at later date.


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #248839 - 12/06/14 06:50 AM

Seems that yours Mosin shoots well and you´re a good shooter too.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #248842 - 12/06/14 07:02 AM

Thank you . Finnish Mosin rifles from my experience ,if having a good bore and bedded propetly are among the most accurate military rifles ever made .The important thing in getting any Mosin to shoot is to slug the bore so correct diameter bullets are used.The Finns used shims to bed their rifles. I go a bit further and pillar bed the action along with glass bedding and free floating the barrel.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #251573 - 05/08/14 02:57 PM

WOW! You guys have really inspired me. I have a ww2 Russian 91/30 in a laminated stock. It looked like it have been back to the arsenal multiple times when I bought-nothing matched; but since I wanted a cheap shooter I didn't care. THEN I started stripping it and cleaning away the years of grease and it started looking nice.

Shooting it with surplus ammo turned out to be a pleasant surprise too. I wanted to add a scope but NOT make a "sniper clone"; still I wanted something which looked "European" but not spend a fortune. So I decided to use a PU scope/mount and to keep it from being the "clone", Im having a Butterknife bolt handle made. My thought was that it would give it that 1950-60s era custom build look.

I THOUGHT I was finished with Mosin Nagants; but now that Ive read this thread, I think Im hooked. The picture on pg11 of the Full Stocked sporter has me drooling. Im headed out in the morning for a suitable donor rifle.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: EDELWEISS]
      #251586 - 05/08/14 10:14 PM

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WOW! You guys have really inspired me. I have a ww2 Russian 91/30 in a laminated stock. It looked like it have been back to the arsenal multiple times when I bought-nothing matched; but since I wanted a cheap shooter I didn't care. THEN I started stripping it and cleaning away the years of grease and it started looking nice.

Shooting it with surplus ammo turned out to be a pleasant surprise too. I wanted to add a scope but NOT make a "sniper clone"; still I wanted something which looked "European" but not spend a fortune. So I decided to use a PU scope/mount and to keep it from being the "clone", Im having a Butterknife bolt handle made. My thought was that it would give it that 1950-60s era custom build look.

I THOUGHT I was finished with Mosin Nagants; but now that Ive read this thread, I think Im hooked. The picture on pg11 of the Full Stocked sporter has me drooling. Im headed out in the morning for a suitable donor rifle.



The Mosin Nagant has always been a most reliable military rifle.Anyone who has shot a Finnish barreled Mosin or studied the history of Russian sniper varients well knows how accurate this rifle system can be.In Olympic and International shooting competition Mosin actioned rifles hold more medals than any other.As you can see from this thread that the Mosin can also be made into a beautiful personal sporting rifle which can be built to any taste. Good luck on your quest . We are here to help.

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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Igorrock]
      #251646 - 07/08/14 01:08 AM

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Seems that yours Mosin shoots well and you´re a good shooter too.


Igorrock , I am designing a scope base out of 1/4" hardened steel plate to duplicate the Sako Riihimaki scope base dovetails for my Sako Mosin sporter.I will be able to use my early Sako Riihimaki rings


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #253057 - 02/09/14 02:48 AM

The Sako base is finished and installed. I hand made the base out of hardened steel stock to duplicate the early Sako Riihimaki tapered receiver dovetail so I can use the original Sako Riihimaki windage adjustable rings .The project came out perfectly. Left to do is Checker (matte) the top of the base in a 40 line per inch pattern to match the original Sako receivers .My bolt handle is also finished and is more fitting to an early Sako sporter.


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Re: The best Mosin sporting rifle project in world history [Re: Deutsche_Vortrekker]
      #253058 - 02/09/14 03:36 AM

Looks good !

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