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This is from "The Poor Man's Sniper Rifle" by "Dan Boone", published in 1995 by Desert Publications:


"The action [of the Type 38] is also incredibly strong. The author had a friend, a Colorado...

Montana X-Treme Bore Solvent. I've been switching back and forth between that and Hoppe's No 9 just because I have so much of the latter on-hand.

Also, using Montana's product gets me in trouble...

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Well, yeah, I wasn't a Russian conscript in 1930, so it isn't new to me...if I was I'd be...109 years old :)

Well, I know what I did...no idea what some Russian conscript in the 1950s did with it :)

I got a cheap Teslong borescope as a gift. Pics aren't great but it was interesting to stick it down some of my milsurps.

I'm not entirely certain what I'm looking at, though. Click on pics for...

I had no idea idea the #4 Enfield was still in use by a military force.

The Canadian Rangers are just now (2015-2016) beginning to replace it. Until now, the .303 #4 has been their primary rifle....

Stopped for dinner at a restaurant here in Oregon and look what was hanging on the wall.

Sorry for the poor photo quality - I was taking pics over the heads of other diners :-)

Anyone ID them? ...

I've never shot 303 but I overheard someone at a gun show talking who said "the days of pallets of 303 surplus hitting the docks are long gone".

Seems like it was only a few years ago I bought a...

Bought a crate of 7.62x54R from an online vendor. Was expecting the familiar pair of green spam cans with an opener.

Instead, I got a very beat up crate (screws falling out) and inside were two...

Update - go a NOGO gauge (Forster). It does close on a NOGO.

So: it does close on a NOGO, does not close on a FIELD, though the bolt comes around about 60-70% of the way.

To set the barrel...

Was at the fun store today and talked to an old guy behind the counter about cleaning products.

"What are you trying to clean?"

"Old Turk Mauser. I've put about 50 patches through and I'm...

What are steps to go through to evaluate how good a rifle barrel is? I'm thinking specifically of milsurps.

You get a milsurp rifle and want to know how good the barrel is. I know people talk...

7.62x54R also seems to be normal-priced. Shhhh...

Ammo prices are also really high and ammo is getting scarce.

However, I've noticed that some favorite milsurp calibers are still unaffected.

I have a Turk Mauser (1891-style Mauser). I've had it for years and never shot it. It's a typical Turk, rechambered at Ankara in 1930 for 8x57.

I took it to a gunsmith a few years ago and he...

Hmmm...I've now been informed that the Cyrillic alphabet prefixes didn't come into use until 1937. Lapin's book, in Appendix B, page 11. So that's not a C.

Yep, there's a "C", though it looks like it was written in considerably rougher font than the 2080.

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Thanks for the info.

I...

I have a 1930 1891/30 hex receiver Mosin-Nagant, made in Tula. It's a typical FrankenNagant - barrel/receiver was forged in 1929, but assembled in 1930 in Tula, however it has a Izvesk post-1928...

Time to kill today...searched "C&R" on gunbroker...

Nagant Revolver 1895 Russian WW2 C&R Gun : Curios & Relics at GunBroker.com


Maybe not that one particularly.

I already have a couple...