Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Mosin Receiver Holes

These photos are of the receivers of a Mosin 91/30. You are looking at the left-hand raceways for the bolt.

First up, a standard infantry-issue rifle. As you can see, the metal of the raceway is smooth metal.


This is a re-snipered rifle, it was originally equipped with a PU scope sight. It was recently re-fitted with a postwar PU scope. There are four holes through the left side of the receiver; two pins and two screws. You can see three of them in this photo.



This is the rifle I bought yesterday and I apologize that the focus is off. Note that unlike the PU-scoped rifle, this one has only two holes. It apparently was fitted with a PEM scope.


The PU scope was simpler to make and arguably more rugged than the PE/PEM scope. Supposedly, the PU scope replaced the PEM in 1942. The Soviets were not terribly big on niceties; if they had a number of scopes left over from decommissioning sniper-varients of the SVT rifle, they would fit them to Mosins. Which is what apparently was done to this rifle.

4 comments:

Phil said...

Thanks for the pictures, I was going to ask you if you could take some so I had a better idea of what you were talking about.

Nice score!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the pics!
Is the trigger on your new ex-sniper as good as your other sniper rifle?

Comrade Misfit said...

Jeg, it's just about as good. There is a tad bit of creep after taking up the first stage, but it is pretty good. That might be a function of crap; I'll field-strip it soon and give it a good cleaning.

Anonymous said...

Thanks. I was curious about the consistency of good triggers on the snipers.
Good shooting!