Big 5 M91/30

Slater · April 06, 2002, 08:00

Saw a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 at the local Big 5 the other day. 1942 manufacture date with maybe 80-85% blue, excellent bore, all-matching except bolt (bummer). Wood has no cracks or gouges, but plenty of scrapes and dents. Will 0000 steel wool make something like this any prettier? For $50 I'm thinking of trying to bring it back to life somewhat.

masman · April 06, 2002, 09:11

go for it.just have the headspace checked out.if the stock doesn't come out im sure you can find a stock somewere.

Munster30 · April 06, 2002, 12:23

I watched "Enemy At the Gates" a couple of weeks ago. The $50 M/N sure could tell a story. Sounds like a heck of a deal to me.

Slater · April 06, 2002, 13:50

Too late, someone already bought it. I snooze, I lose.

April 06, 2002, 08:00	#1
Slater Registered FALaholic #: 4697 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Arizona Posts: 691	Big 5 M91/30 Saw a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 at the local Big 5 the other day. 1942 manufacture date with maybe 80-85% blue, excellent bore, all-matching except bolt (bummer). Wood has no cracks or gouges, but plenty of scrapes and dents. Will 0000 steel wool make something like this any prettier? For $50 I'm thinking of trying to bring it back to life somewhat.

April 06, 2002, 09:11	#2
masman Registered FALaholic #: 781 Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 5,653	go for it.just have the headspace checked out.if the stock doesn't come out im sure you can find a stock somewere. __________________ somethings wrong with the world when the best rapper is white.the best golfer is black.the french think that the us is arrogant and the germans don't want to go to war

April 06, 2002, 12:23	#3
Munster30 Registered FALaholic #: 3198 Join Date: May 2001 Location: Washington State Posts: 9,550	I watched "Enemy At the Gates" a couple of weeks ago. The $50 M/N sure could tell a story. Sounds like a heck of a deal to me. __________________ “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will take the strong horse” Osama bin Laden It has been the fault of both pacifism and liberalism in the past that they have ignored the immense burden of inherited evil under which society and civilization labour and have planned an imaginary world for an impossible humanity. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

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April 06, 2002, 13:50	#4
Slater Registered FALaholic #: 4697 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Arizona Posts: 691	Too late, someone already bought it. I snooze, I lose.