Charleville Musket
Posted on 06/23/2011 12:52:36 PM PDT by dynachrome
If I asked you to tell me what was the most important rifle ever used in Russia, what would it be? Many people might answer: “the AK-47.”
However, it was the Mosin-Nagant rifle that drove Nazis from the Motherland. The same rifle guarded the Czars, and later deposed them.
The AK may be the Cold War face of the Evil Empire, but the Mosin-Nagant was the backbone of a country when their very survival was in doubt.
In a great twist of historical irony, the former Communist country is selling the rifles that guarded the revolution to the very citizens once considered her enemies.
History
Let me introduce you to the Russian Mosin-Nagant rifle. Adopted in 1891, the Three Line Rifle was first carried by Russian troops under Czar Alexander III. Later, the gun would be known as the Mosin-Nagant rifle.
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I used the early production forged trigger guard with the hole in the end on all my match guns. Reason: M1NM Garands and M14NM rifles have trigger guards that fit very tight. If I need to open a stubborn Garand trigger guard, I can insert a cleaning rod section through the trigger guard hole for leverage.
The other part that makes for instant visual recognition is the addition of the “humped” late issue gas cylinder lock. The hump was added as a strengthening and recoil surface for the M7A3 rifle grenade launcher. Other than my M1NM Garands, I have never seen this combination of very early and very late production parts on a Garand.
I don't have a 7.62x54R because I don't want to stock another cartridge, like I said.
If you want to speak metric, I do have 7.62x51mm and 7.62x63mm ammo on hand, but good luck asking a clerk for a box or two, if that's what you ask for. They know .308 and 30-06. I'd bet most FReepers do, too.
Sweet, nice guns. My Carcano came from my grandfather when he passed away, shot it many time when I was younger, with him.
Charleville Musket
I think it's in Simo Häyhä's collection of souvenirs.
He had so many of them, it's hard to tell.
да товарищ, именно так!
Fireball? What fireball???
I can't see a thing....
I was just about to ask you how a Mosin thread got to 150 posts with out you.
P.S. Your cat has one too?
Not all the маленький цветок used Moisin Nagants.... Little Lyudmila Mykhailivna Pavlichenko used a scoped весло.
If you’re interested you might want to read (or listen to) “The Gun” by C.J. Chivers. Pretty good history of the AK-47 and the automatic weapons leading up to it. I’m no gun expert but I enjoyed it.
Yup. A 1939 Tula.
From about 200 meters, if you get a good one and practice with it.
Then you move on to eggs.
I’ve got the same year, same factory in my closet.
That youngster must of had pretty good eyes to work as well as he did with that PU scope.
My tired old eyes work much better with a PE, if I'm shooting the old iron. Of the more modern glassware, I tend to like to work with the 1P29.
First Soviet citizen to be invited into the White House. There;s an amusing little story about her wartime visit here.
I had a very tenuous connection to Pavlichenko around '45. My aunt was visiting, and at one point I lifted her handbag; it nearly toppled me with its unexpected weight. I said, "What the hell do you have in here, a .45?" That's exactly what she had -- a Colt .45 automatic. Her husband was an organizer for the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers at the Colt armament plant in Hartford, Conn., which made .45s issued for our GIs. He was designated to present the pistol to Pavlichenko at a war-bond rally in Madison Square Garden that night.
I have no idea what Pavlichenko did with the gun -- probably used it as a paperweight. Our guys used to say it was such a notoriously inaccurate weapon that the most effective way to employ it was to throw it at the enemy's head.
ROGER P. KOVACH
BOLINAS, CALIF.
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