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 [...]
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 [...]