Here’s a short video of one of the first feed tests of the magazine after I built the custom follower. SUCCESS!!
Cue Rocky theme music…
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Here’s a short video of one of the first feed tests of the magazine after I built the custom follower. SUCCESS!!
Cue Rocky theme music…
-~D~-
After I got my measurements correct with the rough and dirty welded magazine, I went and dug out the bead roller that has been trapped in my storage space since I moved to Cali a while back, clamped it up in my vise and rolled out a better version of the 10 round magazine.
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The other day I decided to attempt to fabricate something that I’ve seen talked about on a ton of gun forums, but that very few people had actually tried to build, a removable, extended magazine for the Mosin-Nagant. I guess, technically it’s not really a “removable magazine” in the common usage of the word because [...]
The Mosin-Nagant M44 is unique among the Mosin variants due to the fact that it has an attached, folding bayonet. It’s a really cool feature and a clever piece of engineering, but it didn’t quite fit the aesthetic of my scout mod.
Now, there are a few quirks with the M44 barrel and drawbacks to [...]
Here’s a pic of the original bolt on my Mosin-Nagant M44.
It’s a stubby little thing, and although it’s fun to slam with an upward strike of your palm after the bolt sticks after 30 rounds or so, I decided to replace it with something that gives me a bit more leverage and fits the [...]
I’ve been looking for a small project lately with which to test my new metal casting tools so I decided to make a sturdier aluminum reproduction of the flimsy, plastic handle endcap on my Mosin-Nagant M44 Scout Project rifle. It came out pretty well for my first attempt, if I do say so myself.
Finished product [...]
Recently I purchased a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 with the intention of “sporterizing” it (modernizing), but when I got it home and looked more closely at the rifle, I realized that it was in way too nice of a condition to modify, so I decided to sport my M44 instead. From a collector standpoint, my 91/30 has [...]
Japanese Arisaka Type 99 (pictured below Russian Mosin-Nagant M-44 for size comparison)
These characters, “kyuu-kyuu, shiki”, or “Type 99″ which means that it takes the larger 7.7×58mm round as opposed to the Type 38’s smaller 6.5×50mm round. The Type99 is noted as being one of the most powerful bolt-action rifles ever made. This rifle has the [...]