russian mosen m 44 rifle.

[roc]

thank you aragorn243 for yor feed back.

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[SKS50]

Firing pin protrusion on the Mosin should be between 0.095" maximum and 0.075" minimum .
Collecting and Shooting the Mosin-Nagant - Wolff Striker Springs


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[roc]

thanks for the reply but it dose not answer my question of the firing pin. at the minimum dose the pin have to be right on. i would hate to eject a shell that did not fire properly. dose the clearance on both the minimum and maximum have to be right on or is there room for error? thanks for any info.

[SKS50]

There is no set number that I know of to set your firing pin protrusion on,the tool just provide a basic gauge The .075" notch should NOT pass over the tip, but the .095" notch should allow the tip to slide under it. Lower than 0.075 will probably give you light primer strikes and FTF issues longer than 0.095 will more than likely cause pierced primer issues.

If it falls anywhere between the two measurement you should be fine,your primers will tell you if it's set to shallow or two deep. I will try and measure mine tomorrow with the back gage on my calipers and see what I set it to several years ago but I think I set it right in the middle at 0.085ish" and I haven't had any issues with any type of surplus ammo or reloads and different primer I've used.