One of the funniest thing s I ever saw was a fellow that made a case into a coffee table
"In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass"
Posted on 10/14/2013 7:28:08 PM PDT by dynachrome
mosin-nagant
The Mosin-nagant is an old school bolt action rifle from Russia. Originally designed by a drunk Russian engineer and an even more drunk Belgian gunsmith, who drew up blueprints on napkins in the back of a pub somewhere in Siberia in a vodka-induced stupor. The Mosin-nagant fires the 7.62x54r cartridge, which can kill a polar bear at a thousand yards and keep going right through the tree he was standing in front of. The Mosin-nagant was used by the Russians in both world wars, so it's killed more Germans than collisions on the autobahn and under-cooked sauerkraut combined. Surplus Mosins can be found at gunshops in the States for like a hundred bucks on sale, and ammo is cheap surplus, so this is what real men shoot who don't want to drop $1299.99 on an AR-15 which fires a .22 round and that's made out of recycled milk jugs and Legos. Many of them come with a bayonet that's roughly the size of the sword William Wallace used in Braveheart. In the absence of gun oil, you can clean a Mosin by pissing down the barrel and wiping the bolt off with a dirty rag that you found on the floor in a Grease Monkey. Try that with a rifle that was designed less than 50 years ago.
Joe: " I need a rifle that is ten feet long and fires anti-tank rounds, but Ive only got 200 dollars!"
Ivan: "Amerikan comrade, you need mosin-nagant . Spend 100 on the rifle, fifty on case of ammo, use rest for vodka!"
In Soviet Russia, rifle fire you!!!
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Simo Hayha used only iron sights and the 505 kills occurred in less than a hundred days. 5 a day in the very short winter daylight hours at that latitude. He did an equally fine job , more or less, with his submachine gun in the same period. Amazing warrior.
Ivan Attitude.
Love the 1879 Sestroyetsk
One of the funniest thing s I ever saw was a fellow that made a case into a coffee table
"In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass"
Now that I’ve seen that no man cave could possibly be complete without one.
Alot of people have Mossy Naggys.
And drunken deer!
[And zombie deer too.]
I agree with you. As an owner of an SKS, I can attest to reliability of Russian weaponry. Also I have a Springfield 06 which has not failed me when I need a powerful cartridge capable to take down a Kodiak, Elk or any of the large game animals including humans at the distance of 1,000 meters.
It was worth it.
Simo is known to have used an early-production M38 SkY-marked civil guard rifle for his feat. Like a good soldier, he turned in his rifle at the end of his deployment. No one took note of which rifle it was and it vanished into the Finnish arsenal. (The gun often exhibited as “Simo’s gun” in Finland was a postwar gift from a wealthy admirer.) Most SkY guns were sold into the collecter’s market in the 1960s. Odds are that someone in the USA has Simo’s gun in his collection. There’s no way to be sure, of course. But SkY M28s have a marking that corresponds to the region that they were issued in, and there were relatively few of them in any given region. If you have low-serial M29 marked for Simo’s region, there is a small likelihood that it could be the gun he used.
Good to see FPS again. Man, he has some cool stuff!
< as pro 2A as any of ya, but that's funny, right there !
He and Hickock45 are pretty good Youtube Channels.
I watched “Enemy at the Gates” again the other nite. Made the mistake of walking into cabelas, and came home with a 1942 Izveshk ex-sniper for $152 out the door.
could have been used at Stalingrad.
Man, I don’t know if I would want to shoot that. Probably break my wrist.
I like my Mosin and agree about the kick. I shot one in December that had a Monte Carlo stock and a butt pad. Quite a difference. I like the wood stock but saw Amazon has the butt pad for about 12 bucks.
The price and availability of 7.62x54 makes buying a Mosin even more appealing, especially since most versions only have a five round magazine. (I should have said clip just to irritate a couple of folks.). It is hard to burn through thirty rounds in fifteen seconds.
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