I started a thread awhile back inquiring about a new rifle, well I finally purchased a 1939 Mosin Nagant.
Field stripped her, and everything looks A ok.
These rifles are known to be pretty damn reliable, loud, with a huge muzzle flash.
I took her to the range last Saturday and had a great time.
This was a big jump from my Winchester .22 but it was cool. Shoulder was definitely sore after this trip.
Anyways, this is pointless without pics so here are a few.
And if anyone else is a firearm enthusiast please feel free to share any and all information about your firearms/experiences.
My next purchase will either be a good pump shotgun, or Berreta 92fs.
I have several guns, a classic double shotgun, a mossberg 500, a 22 lever action, and a 30-30, plus a glock 22. I bought the glock 22 in my mispent youth, (which I am still spending) and in retrospect, wish like hell I had bought a ruger gp100. When I have disposable dollars, I will be getting one of those.
I’ve shown my rifle on a few other threads, but might as well put it up here as well.
This is a Springfield Scout Squad M1A, with an 18 inch barrel, glass bedded to a laminated birch stock and match-grade rebuilt with National Match GI parts by Clint McKee of Fulton Armory.
The rifle originally had a brown fiberglass handguard and barrel-mounted forward scope mount, but I removed those and put on a black plastic handguard from Fulton, shown here. Also, in this picture I have a tritium front sight installed (same as is on the SOCOM-16), but I usually use the thinner National Match front sight.
I bought a Polish 1939 Mauser about 2 years ago. It’s a great fucking gun.
I was also givin a 16 gauge shotgun, my father passed me on his ol’ .22 and the “family” (mostly my dad and me) own a vintage .44 revolver (dated somewhere around 1901).
-Ruger 10/22 w/Barska 3-9x32 “Plinker” model scope.
-Marlin 925R, stock. Just picked this one up today after the 10 day waiting period
-Remington M3A3. Inherited this one from my grandfather. All original parts on it.
I’ll be picking up a Savage 93R17 .17 HMR this Friday. Got lots of squirrels to shoot.
The HK-91, which is probably the third best main battle rifle in the world.* I owned this rifle for a while, and was quite impressed with its ruggedness and simplicity.
Not so impressed with its execrable trigger and weird sights. But if it were all I had, I’d be fine with it.
It’s not a tack-driver, but it’ll keep all twenty rounds on a sheet of typing paper at three hundred meters. And that, friends, is good enough.
*Numbers one and two being the M14 and the FN-FAL. In that fucking order, god damn it.
SPAS-12 pump/auto shotgun. It looks cool, but it’s too heavy for its own good, and that folding stock sucks shit. I like shotguns, but I don’t love shotguns. If I ever owned another 12-gauge, it’d be a Remington 1187, not another one of these monsters. Never again.
If I’m going to be carrying a weapon that weighs ten pounds, it damn well better be a battle rifle.
