The American Connection

Blicero · January 20, 2015, 04:33:16 PM

I was recently able to reunite both factions of the American Mosins. About 8 months ago I traded a beat up Remington for a k11 carbine. I'm ecstatic about having the Swiss but the Westinghouse has been lonely ever since.

These American Mosin Nagants, made between 1915-18 for a Russian army suffering a drastic dearth of rifles, come from a volatile time in both world and Russian history. Tsarism was dead or dying. Communism was taking root. A young Joseph Stalin was working his way up the ranks of Lenin's & Trotsky's regime. A world war, two Russian Revolutions, Red Terror, Russian civil war all could have put the American contract Mosin Nagants to use for either red or white, Bolshevik or Menshevik, provisional govt troop or revolutionary, Cheka inquisitor or Okhrana investigator, Red Army pvt or Finn infantryman, and on and on.

Both of these guns eventually ended up in Finnish hands. On the Remington stock & receiver you can see the Finn Civil Guard District number for Kanta Hame. The Remington also has the trigger return spring, a Finn modification that eliminates trigger slack.

Ol Relic · January 20, 2015, 06:12:03 PM

Nice Finned M91s. Excellent pics, too.

Phosphorus32 · January 20, 2015, 06:34:05 PM

Very nice pair

Great historical context as well. That Remington has definitely seen some use. The proof commission "ПК" mark on the barrel is so worn that the "К" isn't even visible. I really like the American walnut stocks on Mosins (or any rifle for that matter).

Loose}{Cannon · January 20, 2015, 06:55:59 PM

Please show me thr (k) and (0).

Adam7 · January 20, 2015, 08:33:12 PM

I am slightly sad this thread had nothing to do with Bruce Lee.

Dannyboy53 · January 20, 2015, 09:38:14 PM

Blicro these are beautiful rifles, well done with the write up and thanks for sharing.

Quote from: Adam7 on January 20, 2015, 08:33:12 PM
I am slightly sad this thread had nothing to do with Bruce Lee.

shemhamforash · February 22, 2015, 05:45:03 PM

WANT

hows she shoot? (joking)

Blicero · March 02, 2015, 06:37:40 PM

There's no shame in shooting these guns. They're not $3k collectors' orgasms. The Westinghouse is slick, smooth operating bolt and shoots to POA at 100. That's what made me fall in love with m91s to begin with.
The Remington is a bit stiffer and less accurate. I won't be shooting it much if ever.

Loose}{Cannon · March 02, 2015, 06:43:22 PM

Never heard of one that does not require the 'mosin slap". $:-\$

Greasemonkey · March 02, 2015, 07:05:03 PM

Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on March 02, 2015, 06:43:22 PM
Never heard of one that does not require the 'mosin slap". $:-\$

You just aint heard of the right one.

Loose}{Cannon · March 02, 2015, 07:10:22 PM

How hard is it to get a bent bolt handle for one of these?

aschatzl · March 02, 2015, 07:48:17 PM

Very nice mosins!

Besides sks's they are one of my favorites

Blicero · March 02, 2015, 08:11:13 PM

You can buy a sniper from AIM and have the bent bolt already in place.
Or you can hit up a guy who goes by "The Bolt Man". He bends bolts for $75 (maybe $50) and they look excellent, clean and smooth and classy, not like some Juco welding student's failed project.

I just saw somewhere somebody pay $3k for a Westinghouse so I might have to recant my previous post. I'm not sure what made it worth that kind of money compared to my $300-400 examples.

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